12/29/2025
Big shifts often arrive alongside a deeper desire for freedom. Not as punishment, not as loss, but as movement. Growth asking to happen.
There’s an important distinction here:
goals create direction.
expectations create pressure.
When change is met without labeling it as good or bad, there’s room to adapt, navigate, and even celebrate what unfolds. Surrender doesn’t mean giving up...it means staying open to what’s possible beyond the original plan.
So much of the work right now is releasing inherited expectations-- from family, from society--while noticing how easily new ones get placed back on ourselves.
Freedom begins when change is allowed to be what it is.