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”
Category Archives: Bliss in Between
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”
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”
What to Do When Everyone Is Asking “What’s Next?”
Giving yourself grace to not have all the answers and enjoying life with the unknowns of the future. Recently, I found myself back in my childhood bedroom, living with my parents after two years of living in a city on my own. When I first moved out after college, I never anticipated returning to liveContinue reading “What to Do When Everyone Is Asking “What’s Next?””
The Next Best Step
No matter what phase of life you are currently in, there are always decisions to be made. These decisions at the moment feel like they have the ability to drastically change the trajectory of your life, whether that be for the good or bad. When thought of like this, it suddenly feels like the weightContinue reading “The Next Best Step”
Grow Through What You Go Through
It’s inevitable to go through this life unscathed, but all along the way there is so much collateral beauty. It’s a part of the human experience and what connects us together. In order to become who we want to be, we cannot remain who we are. We have to let go of our old self;Continue reading “Grow Through What You Go Through”
All Along You Were Blooming
“One day you will look back and see that all along: you were blooming” – Morgan Harper Nichols Have you ever realized that it is not until you look back on an old photo or reminisce on a memory that you think about that time differently? I know for me personally, there have been countlessContinue reading “All Along You Were Blooming”
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