05/25/2026
9 years ago today I graduated from Long Beach State with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Marketing. 🤍
In school, I thought I was going to become an MFT (Marriage and Family Therapist), but I ended up changing course.
I had no idea that years later I’d be using both psychology AND marketing in a completely different way than I imagined.
Looking back at these photos now is wild.
Because behind the graduation pictures, the smile, and the excitement…
was a younger version of me who had no idea what life would eventually hold.
No idea the heartbreak I’d walk through.
The healing God would lead me into.
The woman I’d become.
The relationship that would almost break me and then transform me.
The babies I’d one day hold.
The businesses I’d build.
The women I’d one day help.
I couldn’t see it then…
but God was already weaving purpose into my story.
Every lesson.
Every season.
Every hard thing.
Every piece of my education and life experience.
Even the picture of Oscar and I kissing at graduation feels wild to look at now…
Because if you would’ve told that version of us what we’d eventually walk through—what God would restore and rebuild in the process—and where we are now—I genuinely don’t think we would’ve believed you.
And I think that’s the beauty of God.
Sometimes the things that feel random, painful, delayed, or confusing at the time…
end up becoming part of the very thing He uses most.
Looking back now, I can clearly see:
God was preparing me long before I realized what He was preparing me for. ✨