Trusting Life Anyway…

What This Week Taught Me …

Over the last week or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about growth, discomfort, and what it really means to trust where you are, even when life feels uncertain.

I recently finished reading The Life That's Waiting by Brianna Wiest, and while the entire book felt incredibly grounding and honest, it was the final chapter that truly stayed with me.

One quote she writes so well, got me thinking.

“If we don’t give up, we build the things we most want from the inside out. So when life seems to be redirecting you, when the changes are swift and sudden especially, remember that you have no idea what future pain your current discomfort is saving you from.”

That perspective changed something in me.

It made me stop for a moment and really reflect on gratitude, not just gratitude for the beautiful moments, but gratitude for the uncomfortable ones too. The moments that stretch you. The seasons that force you to slow down, rethink, rebuild, or let go.

Sometimes we become so focused on where we thought we would be, that we forget life might be trying to guide us somewhere even better. Somewhere more aligned. Somewhere our future self desperately needs us to reach.

And while that sounds hopeful, I also want to be honest: things can be truly hard.

There are seasons where you feel exhausted, uncertain, emotional, or completely thrown off course, or horrible thinsg are hppening. There are moments where growth does not feel inspiring, it just feels heavy.

But maybe those moments are still shaping us.

Maybe the challenges are teaching us resilience, boundaries, softness, confidence, patience, or self-trust. Maybe they are preparing us for a version of life we cannot fully see yet.

Lately, I’ve been trying to practice accepting my reality while also taking responsibility for it. Holding gratitude for where I am now, while still striving for the life I want to create.

Not giving up on myself.
Not abandoning my future.
Not letting temporary discomfort convince me that everything is falling apart.

Because sometimes the life we are asking for requires us to become someone new first.

And maybe that’s the lesson:
to trust that even here, in the uncomfortable, uncertain, in-between moments, something meaningful is still unfolding.

So if life feels a little messy right now, maybe this is your reminder:
keep going.
Keep showing up for yourself.
Keep choosing growth, even in small ways.

Your future self might one day thank you for the things you survived, learned from, and refused to give up on.

And maybe, just maybe, this season is not breaking you,
it’s building you.

I highly recommend this book, in whatever way feels right for you, whether that’s listening to it, reading it slowly, highlighting pages, or simply taking in the chapters that resonate most with you in your current season of life and coming back to other chapters later.

Even if you are already in a really good place personally, I still think this book is incredibly reflective. Some of the heavier chapters actually made me feel proud of myself, because I realised I had already overcome so many of those feelings and difficult seasons in the past.

It reminded me how far I’ve come, and how important it is to stop sometimes and acknowledge your own growth too.

Be kind,

Lacey 💛