Tag: patterns

  • 🦋The Year of the Quiet Pause

    For me, this year is not about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming more myself. After a year of growth, expansion, learning, building, and beautiful momentum, I felt a very different pull as the New Year arrived. Not toward more, towards enough. Not toward urgency, towards alignment. Not toward noise, towards a quiet, grounded clarity…

  • 🌱 The Near Enemy of Connection: Control

    Have you ever found yourself trying to create closeness with someone—only to realize later that what you were doing was more about managing or fixing them, not truly connecting? This is the heart of what BrenĂ© Brown refers to as a “near enemy.” These are emotions or actions that appear similar to virtues we value,…