There is an intricate, messy dance that happens when you’re holding both beauty & brokenness.When grief and joy exist in the same season, sometimes in the same breath. It’s contradicting and confusing, and yet extremely human.Disorienting, even, because more than one thing is true at once. This has been my reality this past year. I’veContinue reading “The Beauty of the In Between: The Art of Holding Both”
Author Archives: Brooke Tort
When Life Doesn’t Look Like the Vision Board
I thought my life would look different by now. The vision board had timelines. Momentum. Clear markers of success.It made sense on paper. It photographed well.It told a story that felt exciting to tell. But the season I’m in now doesn’t look like that.And somehow, I don’t feel completely lost. That’s the strange part. LifeContinue reading “When Life Doesn’t Look Like the Vision Board”
Who are you Becoming?
We talk a lot about who we want to be.The best version of ourselves.The version who finally has it all figured out, and the feelings we have attached to that arrival, including what our lives might look like once we just muster up enough effort to achieve it. Lately, I’ve been thinking less about whoContinue reading “Who are you Becoming?”
Learning to Let the Light in
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” — John 1:4–5 There will always be darkness in this world. There’s no avoiding that, but there is also always light. I’ve learned, slowly, sometimes painfully that so muchContinue reading “Learning to Let the Light in”
Life After Loss
Life after loss… a new normal I’m slowly learning to live in. This post feels more vulnerable than most, but I believe there is healing in sharing—because loss is something we will all eventually face, in one way or another. Recently, my uncle passed after 11 months of fighting an aggressive form of leukemia. DrivingContinue reading “Life After Loss”
Your Pain Has a Purpose
Why I Wouldn’t Trade the Pain & When the Breaking Becomes Beautiful I used to think the goal was a pain-free life.To move through this world protected, untouched, unshaken. I mean that’s what society tells us, right? That the ultimate goal is happiness and we should pursue that at all costs. But if I’mContinue reading “Your Pain Has a Purpose”
Finding Bliss in the Becoming
How to brave the messy in between—break bad habits, be where your feet are, and believe for the best ahead of you There’s this tension I’ve felt many times in this journey of becoming. That in-between stretch where you no longer align with who you were, but you haven’t quite grown into who you wantContinue reading “Finding Bliss in the Becoming”
The Beauty of the Broom Tree
Where brokenness and beauty coexist We talk a lot about the mountaintop moments. Those seasons where things finally make sense, when you feel connected, confident, or inspired. Where the view is clear and you feel like you’re finally becoming who you’re meant to be. But we don’t talk enough about the moments in between. WeContinue reading “The Beauty of the Broom Tree”
Blissfully Becoming
Embracing the beautiful & broken journey of becoming, finding bliss in the process, and realizing that all along you were blooming. That is the essence of Blissfully B, this blog, and my heartbeat for this entire concept that was born out of my own journey of becoming. There’s something sacred about becoming. Not in aContinue reading “Blissfully Becoming”
Don’t Waste the Waiting: What to Do with Your Season of Singleness
Learning how to love your life now In a world where it seems like everyone is dating, married, or even having babies, being single can sometimes feel like you’re stuck in a holding pattern, just waiting for the real thing to begin. Being single while surrounded by couples might even bring on feelings of inadequacyContinue reading “Don’t Waste the Waiting: What to Do with Your Season of Singleness”
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