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01/21/2026

Understanding the difference between stress, overwhelm, and burnout matters — because each one asks for something different from us.
Stress needs support.💫
Overwhelm needs simplification.💭
Burnout needs restoration.🕊️
You don’t have to “push through” everything you feel… sometimes the most meaningful shift is simply naming what’s happening in your body.
Which one sounds like you lately — stress, overwhelm, or burnout?

01/05/2026

When the body is tired, the mind often gets louder — not because something is wrong, but because your nervous system is trying to stay in control. 💭
Fatigue reduces your capacity to filter thoughts. So the brain compensates with analysis, planning, replaying, and worry.

This is why rest isn’t just physical. 🌱
And why January can feel mentally noisy even when life looks “quiet” because the holiday season has passed. If your thoughts have been racing lately, it may not be a mindset issue.

It may be a tired body asking to land. 💫

12/28/2025

Just a gentle check-in as the holidays start to wind down and as we transition into the new year ✨

Here are a few reminders I’ve been holding onto:
create small pauses,
stay present (not perfect),
and honor your capacity. 💕🌱🫶🏽

What are you holding onto this season?

12/09/2025

Healing isn’t rushed or performative. It unfolds slowly through emotional safety, curiosity, compassion, and honest community. This past weekend, I attended a workshop where Imago reminded me that our patterns in love aren’t random — they come from early emotional lessons about being seen, protected, comforted, or defended. Most of us learned to relate from survival, not safety.

Soft work is still work: noticing when we protect, withdraw, long, or reach takes clarity, forgiveness, and courage. And before any of this becomes a relationship with another person, it starts as a relationship with self — with our history, emotional needs, patterns, and the parts of us that learned how to stay safe. When we soften with ourselves, connection with others becomes safer and more grounded. 🙏🏽🌱

I’m learning to hold grace for who I’ve been and intention for who I’m becoming. Healing doesn’t demand perfection — it invites presence, tenderness, and patience. 💭💕

Candle Talk is always about that softness: healing through scent, conversation, and emotional grounding. 🕯️🫶🏽

12/04/2025

to a moment that reminded me what it feels like to stand in something meaningful. A season where the work was deepening, the message felt clearer, and I was becoming more aligned with what I was called to create.

These photos were taken for my first article, and every time they resurface, they ground me again.
Softness. Healing. Intention. Still here. Still evolving.🕯️💕💭

12/03/2025

Gratitude doesn’t always show up in the big, loud moments — sometimes it lives in the quiet ones we almost miss. 🕯️💭
The soft pause in your morning.
The answered prayer you’re living inside of now.
The lesson that stretched you but grew you.
The moment you felt thankful without trying to be.💕

These questions are here to help you slow down and notice what’s already supporting you.

✨ Which one speaks to you the most today?
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