The Girassol Journal 🌻

When we finally took down the tree in our yard, I learned its roots had been slowly suffocating it for years. It made me realize I'd been doing the same thing to myself.

Sometimes the hardest thing to leave behind is something you built with your whole heart. A gentle reflection on outgrowing seasons, releasing what no longer fits, and trusting that what comes next was always making room for you.

My dog Biscuit turned ten this month, and it made me realize how easily we take being alive for granted. A reflection on tree rings, birthdays, and what it really means to be granted another year.

One morning, a workout that didn't happen taught me more than most full ones have. We take care of everything around us without a second thought. So why do we treat ourselves like we're the exception?

Most of us knew how to be completely ourselves once. And most of us can trace, if we're honest, the quiet moment when we started to forget. This is about that moment, and the way back.

A tree doesn't keep every leaf forever, simply because at some point, what once helped it grow becomes too heavy to carry into the next season. A gentle reflection on the versions of ourselves we outgrow and why letting them go is one of the most honest things we can do.

There are songs that play at you. And then there are songs that play through you. This is about one of those songs, and the younger version of me I found waiting inside it.

Two years ago, an unexpected injury forced me to slow down in a way I never had before. What felt like a pause at the time became a deep transformation - one that shifted my perspective, my priorities, and the path I’m now walking. This is a reflection on growth, grief, and the quiet clarity that comes when life asks you to stop and listen.

Life has a way of shifting when we least expect it. What feels like a storm: loud, overwhelming, and disorienting - can sometimes be the very thing that clears our path. In this reflection, I explore how unexpected changes, even the hardest ones, can guide us toward something more aligned, more meaningful, and more true to who we are becoming.

On a self discovery journey, it’s easy to feel lost in moments of anxiety and overthinking. But what if those feelings aren’t permanent? What if your mind already knows how to return to calm? This reflection explores the quiet patterns that reset you through rest, sleep, and awareness, and how remembering them can bring you back to yourself again and again.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” The first time I heard this quote, it stopped me. I remember feeling an almost urgent need to write it down, like I was afraid the meaning might slip away if I didn’t capture it immediately. Weeks later, I heard it again. I couldn’t help but wonder if the Universe was trying to whisper something to me. Was I getting closer to understanding my purpose? The day you find out why. Th

My mom once told me "you are not everybody." It stung. Years later it became one of the most powerful things anyone ever said to me. A reflection on being uniquely you.

I reread a book I first read as a teenager. The story was the same. But I wasn't. A quiet reflection on how experience changes the lens through which we see life.