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One year ago, I was saying goodbye to a relationship that had once been filled with love. We had spent two wonderful years building a life together, sharing a home and dreaming about a future. What followed was nearly another year of untangling ourselves from a heartbreak that never seemed to end all at once. Just when I felt as though I had finally found solid ground again, another little tug on my heart would pull me back into the uncertainty. Heartbreak has a funny way of

This post isn't really about heartbreak. It's about what happens when someone temporarily steals your peace—and how curiosity, wisdom, and intentional choices help you reclaim it.

The other day, I realized something that caught me completely by surprise. For years, I think I had been looking at myself through other people's eyes. Through expectations. Through disappointments. Through accomplishments. Through scars. Through the opinions of people I loved. Through the opinions of people I barely knew. Somewhere along the way, it was as though I had been walking through life without my contact lenses. When I tried to look at myself through my own eyes, ev