I have been you. Every single version of you.
There was a season of my life where my whole world felt dark, caved in and empty. I had nothing. No money. No home. No sense of who I was outside of what everyone else needed me to be.
I remember sitting in my car at the canal one day, thinking about how easy it would be to just not be here anymore. Thinking that nobody would notice. Maybe nobody would even miss me.
And then something shifted in my chest. Warmth. Quiet. A feeling I can only describe as being held by something bigger than the pain I was in.
In that moment I realized I would miss so much. That there was more. That this choice, staying, was mine to make. For the first time in my whole life I had chosen myself.
That moment cracked everything open. It led me to personal development, to coaching, to understanding at the deepest level what it means to be a woman who has been invisible to herself for so long that choosing her own life feels like the bravest thing she has ever done.
Coaching did not just become my career. It became my reason to keep going.
I see you. Because I have been you. The numbness. The darkness. The quiet moment where something inside whispers that there is more waiting for you.
There was more for me. There is more for you too.
"When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis it does not just grow wings. It dissolves completely. It turns to goo before it reforms into something new. The chrysalis holds it through every single stage. That is what this is. Every time you quantum leap to a new level and melt back into the goo, The Chrysalis holds you."— Kelly Schmalenberg

