Healing & Hustle Can Coexist

For most of my life, I believed I had to pick one thing.
One career. One focus. One version of myself that others could easily define and accept.

Whether it was school, family, or just the unspoken rules of the world around me—I internalized the message that being “too many things” was somehow messy, confusing, or not serious enough.

So I did what a lot of us do: I tried to prove myself.
I earned the degrees. Took on the titles. Checked the boxes.
I invested myself deeply—not just in the work, but in becoming someone who looked legitimate.

But the turning point came when I realized:
I didn’t have to keep choosing.
I could be a therapist and an entrepreneur.
A mom and a student.
Ambitious and gentle.
Healing and hustling—at the same time.

That realization changed everything.
It gave me the freedom to build a life that feels real and honest and aligned.

Therapy taught me how to hold space for others.
Business taught me how to hold space for myself.

Motherhood showed me what matters most.
Marriage taught me how love can be safe, even if that’s not where you started.

And through it all, I’ve learned that the only limits I truly had were the ones I inherited—but no longer needed to carry.

If you’ve been told you’re too much—or not enough—this post (and episode) is for you.
You don’t have to simplify yourself to be taken seriously.
You get to take up space as a full, growing, learning human.

Healing and hustle aren’t at odds.
They are partners in the kind of life that honors all of you.