04/04/2025
What if instead of…
🏃♀️ Pushing harder every day
✖️ Constantly striving to be better
📈 Measuring your worth by your productivity
🧠 Overanalyzing your healing journey
🔥 Chasing intensity to feel alive
🛠️ Treating yourself like a project to fix
🎯 Always trying to achieve something
Wellness looked like…
🌬️ Softening into your breath
💗 Listening to what your body needs today
🌊 Flowing instead of forcing
🫶 Being present with what is
🛋️ Resting without guilt
✨ Holding space instead of taking it
🌙 Letting healing unfold in its own rhythm
I was talking with a friend this week about the idea of leaning into softness and how, for some of us, that’s not always easy.
We live in a world that often praises the loud, the bold, the charismatic. Hustle culture tells us to strive, to stand out, to take up space in big ways. And while that might come naturally to some, for others… it doesn’t.
Some of us are observers. Quiet feelers. We move more slowly, speak more gently, sense more deeply.
And that’s not less, that’s just a different kind of strength.
Softness is not weakness.
Stillness is not absence.
There’s power in simply being, in listening, in holding space, in choosing to honor your essence even when it doesn’t match society’s mold of success.
It’s okay to not be “on” all the time.
It’s okay to exhale. To retreat.
To be soft, and know that you are still whole, still worthy, still powerful just as you are.