10/20/2025
🦞 Bear with me, because I swear I have a point! I just learned the most random, seemingly useless fact about lobsters…
Lobsters don’t grow in a straight line.
They grow by shedding their entire exoskeleton - every bit of the protective shell they’ve been living in - and for a while after that, they are completely exposed.
No armor or backup.
Just a soft, vulnerable blob waiting for the new shell to form.
Here’s the 2nd part that blew my mind:
While they’re soft and exposed, they absorb water to expand into their next size before the new shell hardens.
And as that new shell begins to form, they reabsorb minerals from the old one…literally pulling what they still need from the old them back into their system to build something stronger and resilient.
It’s not instant. It’s not glamorous. They have to wait…tender and unguarded…while their next level slowly takes shape.
And that, my friend, is exactly what healing, spiritual evolution, and personal growth is like.
Growth is sometimes less about releasing what no longer fits and more about allowing yourself to be soft for a while while the new shape of you forms.
It’s about absorbing new wisdom, integrating the old parts of yourself, and letting that all become the structure that supports your next stage in life.
That exposed, uncomfortable, “nothing fits anymore” chapter?
That’s the expansion phase.
That’s you growing into the life your soul has been calling in.
And the next time you feel raw and unprotected, like everything old has fallen away but the new hasn’t quite solidified, remember the lobster.
When you are in the thick of things and feeling raw, and vulnerable, and exposed, remind yourself that you’re building the foundation for the version of you that’s about to grow beyond anything your old shell could hold. 🫶