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From broken to growing. Yours, mine and our journey truly matters.

Some days, you feel like you’re just about keeping your head above water. Other days, you catch a glimpse of your own quiet strength, you made it through, those days are so personal to myself. Life isn’t always about big, dramatic changes. Sometimes it’s just about getting through the next moment, the next breath, the next step, whatever the hurdles you somehow muddled through it.

Maybe lately, you’ve found yourself thinking, “I’m broken and helpless.” That voice can be loud, especially when you’re tired, overwhelmed, or carrying more than anyone sees. But what if that’s not the full story? What if you could start shifting that message you know, even gently, to something new like this,

“I’m growing and healing.”

This isn’t about slapping a smile on and pretending everything is fine. You don’t need to fake strength. Real growth isn’t shiny or perfect. It’s raw, it’s messy, it’s crying in the shower and still turning up for the people you love. It’s choosing to keep going, even when you don’t know how, you are human after all you hear yourself saying right.

If you work with others, care for your family, or simply try to survive each day as they come, you’re already doing something brave. You’re showing up! Even when your hands shake, even when you feel like giving up, you are doing the work, even when no one sees it, you are there in the moment, so give yourself that bit of credit.

And you so deserve to hear this, and you deserve to say it out loud because

You’re not broken.

You’re growing.

You’re healing.

Even if it doesn’t feel like it, YET.

So next time that voice whispers “I’m broken and helpless,” maybe you can whisper something back:

“No. I’m growing and healing,"

and that is enough, give yourself allowance to move forward and feel those powerful words "I'm growing and healing."

Kathy Ingeborg Paulsen-Russell