Things I’m still learning to say out loud.

If I’m honest, there are days when I feel the world is forcing me to toughen up and be more independent than God created me to be. If you know me you know I believe in traditional gender roles rooted in my faith. Well… recently I’ve come to the realization that my true journey isn’t about building my worth, rather about protecting the softness I was born with. And that’s not easy for a woman to do in today’s corporate girly, hyper-independent society. I want to share my heart

For most of my life, I was sold a lie. That I needed to do it all on my own. That I could never truly rely on a man, and that wanting to made me less. That success meant staying busy and controlling every aspect of my life, down to the last detail. I micromanaged everything… my schedule, my future, even my emotions. I bottled everything up and didn’t allow myself to ever truly feel. I lived in my masculine energy constantly…and at the time, I didn’t even know what the heck th