16/09/2026
Yeah I gym, but reduce me to my body and you’ve missed almost everything about who I actually am.
You only see this version of me, where it looks like I have it all figured out. My flops and past versions did the work though.
You don’t see the version who left a stable career everyone told her not to leave. The one with 30k debt from a neuroscience degree she never used. The version whose body turned on her and gave her an autoimmune disease. The version who got cheated on while in hospital, hit rock bottom and couldn’t leave the house with agoraphobia and panic attacks, who rebuilt more than once with no one watching. Who didn’t post on social media.
The versions I’ve hid away from embarrassment of them being “failures”, including past business ventures of my own I’ve never shared.
Nobody shows you their rock bottom while they’re in it. You only ever see people after.
If you feel stuck, or you’re in a version of yourself right now that you’re not proud of right now- that version ISN’T separate from who you’ll become. It’s the version that will build you, and hell it will be the strongest version of you.
My favourite phrase is “fall forward”. The goal isn’t to never fail or fall, but it’s to keep trying.
