Growth in 2022

I have been thinking a lot about growth lately. The season is changing and with the longer, warmer days comes gorgeous growth all around me. On my walks I find the flowers blooming, yet again. Bluebonnets finding their way in wide patches along our greenbelt.

Spring always inspires me toward growth.

What do I want to create? Who do I want to become? Where exactly, am I going?

The thing about growth is that so much of it takes place below the surface.

I think back to the summer of 2019 when I found out I was pregnant. It was July, on a road trip home from California. As we arrived back to Austin, anxious to hear that tiny little heartbeat, to confirm that the stripes on the test strip were actually the glimmer of a new little person coming to enter our world, I treasured the secrecy of the growth within me.

For months as the little cells were forming, so much of what was happening was happening in secret. In the dark, quiet places beyond what was visible.

And so it is with you, and with me.

We are growing.

It might not feel like it. Maybe you’ve been in a dark place recently, a place of disconnection from the things or people you used to love. Maybe the fear, or confusion, or lack of certainty of the last few years has welled up in you to separate you from the feelings of joy or peace that used to be familiar.

Wherever you are in your journey, can I encourage you that you can only go forward? There is no going back. No matter how dark or stagnant you might feel, you are changing. You are becoming. You might not see the growth right now but if you lean in to it, you will begin to sense the goodness that is yours.

You have come so far and made it through so much. I am excited to see where this takes us, together. Reach out to someone you love, share your story, where you are at right now and where you hope to be.

I am trusting that many beautiful things are to come of us this Spring, as we lean in to each other and continue to become the women we are meant to be.

Xo, C