Progress can be measured. Repair must be tended. This is a reflection on what happens when systems address risk, but leave rupture unnamed.

Sometimes resilience isn’t about staying. It’s about knowing when endurance without change costs more than it saves — and choosing yourself anyway.

A season that did not end cleanly, but revealed itself slowly. I am still standing on the dock — held by what steadies me, looking toward what is still forming.

Some days ask us to hold more than one truth at a time — loss and love, sadness and gratitude, memory and movement. I’m learning that our hearts are big enough for all of it.

Every so often, life offers a moment that stops me long enough to take inventory — not of what I’ve accomplished, but of whether I’m still living in alignment with who I am. Gratitude, faith, and love can coexist with complexity, and sometimes the work of a season isn’t becoming someone new, but protecting who you already are.

If it’s not peace, it’s not for me anymore.