27/12/2025
Lately, I’ve been navigating one of those moments where life clearly has other plans.
End of year meant deadlines everywhere - two new offers launching, our Heal Play Love New Year Festival, another HPL project coming online, plus mapping out my schedule for 2026.
And then… my son got very sick. And shortly after, so did I.
All he wanted was mama. And suddenly, everything else fell behind.
At first, it was hard. Frustrating. Stressful. I felt the pressure building - the urge to push, catch up, make it work anyway. But at some point, I had to surrender. To the fact that things weren’t going to unfold as planned. To the reality that my capacity was different in that moment. To the truth that no matter how important the work is, my son matters most.
Motherhood keeps teaching me this over and over again: surrender isn’t giving up - it’s softening into what is. The more I resist, the tighter everything feels. The more I accept, the more things actually start to settle.
This doesn’t mean it’s always easy. And it doesn’t mean I always get it right away.
But choosing perspective, again and again, has become a practice. Remembering what truly matters. Letting go of the illusion of control. Trusting that things can move forward even when they don’t move on my timeline.
If you’re in a season where plans are falling apart, capacity feels stretched, or life is asking you to slow down when you didn’t plan to - you’re not failing.
You might just be asked to surrender.
And sometimes, that’s the work.