Engine off, lights out and ready to settle...


It was late.

Sitting in my car, engine off, lights out, just staring.

This was not the first time I had felt like this. If I am being honest... I had been feeling this way for years. But this night, sometime in 2020, something was different. Because I was not just feeling it anymore.

I was about to accept it.

And I remember thinking: "Is this just my life now?"

Wake up. Feel off. Push through the day. Come home exhausted. Repeat.

On the outside I looked fine but internally I was tired of fighting my own mind and that night I almost gave in to it.

Not in some dramatic way. Just in a quiet decision...

"This is just who I am."

And that is the moment that changes everything.

Not when life falls apart. When you accept it.

Because once you believe "this is just me," you stop questioning it, you stop challenging it, and you stop trying to change it. And I was right there. Ready to settle. Ready to continue living like that forever.

But something in me pushed back.

Not loud. Not confident. Just a quiet... "There has to be more than this."

That was it. No plan, no clarity, no roadmap. Just enough awareness not to fully accept the story.

And that is the lesson I want to leave you with today:

You do not need to have everything figured out. You just need to not fully agree with the version of you that is keeping you stuck.

Because of that small resistance? That quiet "there has to be more than this" feeling?

That is where everything starts.

That is where I started.

And that is exactly why I do what I do now. Because I know what it feels like to almost accept a life that is not actually your and I know what is possible when you decide not to.

If this hit... reply and tell me: what is one moment you almost accepted something you knew was not meant for you

PROUD OF YOU 💙

Walking with you,

Leasha

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