Coffee, Cat Hair, & Emotional Damage: A Soft Welcome

I didn't plan on starting a blog today, much less even plan on getting a podcast together with that. It's been on my mind for around a year now. But life has this funny way of piling up on you until you either break down or you speak up. So here I am... SPEAKING up, one shaky sentence and one loaded tea down.

If you're here, chances are your life feels a lot like mine: a little messy, a little lonely, a little ( a lot) overwhelming.. but somehow you keep showing up anyway.

Some days I feel like I'm doing everything wrong, and by everything, I MEAN EVERYTHING. Some days I feel like I'm carrying emotions that don't even belong to me, but kids... you know. Some days my cat is the only one who notices I'm not okay and honestly, i just know she is judging me, but she stays, so that's something.

I've survived seasons that drained me, broke me, and rebuilt me in ways I certainly did not ask for. Still, there's this tiny part of me that believes I'm meant for more than just surviving. Maybe you feel that too, that small flicker that refuses to go out even when life tries to smother it.

This blog isn't about aesthetic mornings or pretending I have it together. It's not about perfect healing or overnight transformation. It's about real stuff.. the nights you cry in the bathroom, the mornings you force yourself up, and the relationships that changed you, the friendships that saved you, the heartbreak that taught you, and the tiny moments that somehow kept you going.

It's about giving a soft place for every girl who's tired but still trying. Because WE deserve that.

If you're overwhelmed, welcome.

If you're healing, welcome.

If you're barely hanging on but still holding it together will caffeine and stubbornness, welcome.

And if you're carrying emotional damage the size of a small country, well..... take a seat hot shot, you're in good company.

Here, we're not pretending.

We're not performing.

We're not rushing our healing, no ma'am.

We're taking it day by day, cup by cup, breath by breath.

So this is your soft welcome... from one messy, hopeful, emotional human to another.

Grab your coffee or caffeine.

Pet your cat.

And lets be REAL for once.

Together.

"Healing isn't pretty, but neither is giving up.. so here we are, choosing to try again"

xoxo

Chaos, Cats, & Coffee