The Girassol Journal 🌻

A tree doesn't keep every leaf forever. Not because the leaves were bad. But 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

We often admire what we can see in others: their confidence, success, or happiness. But like an iceberg, most of what shapes a person exists beneath the surface. This reflection explores the quiet strength, unseen growth, and deeper story that lives below what the world can see.

A wall clock that had lived in the same place for nine years moved across the room and yet months later my eyes still look for it on the old wall. A quiet lesson about how our minds adjust to change.

What if some of the things you longed for have already arrived… just in a different shape than you expected?

There’s a moment in migration when a bird belongs nowhere. Sometimes our lives enter that same sky - the quiet crossing between who we were and who we’re becoming.

My dogs don’t understand why we can’t go on our usual winter walks. But their hopeful eyes reminded me of something deeper: sometimes the doors that stay closed are quietly protecting us.

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.

This happened a few years ago, but I remember it vividly. Not just the event itself, but also the feeling. I remember where I was. The narrow road. The time of day. What I was wearing. Even the temperature in the car. And most of all, the state of mind I was in that day. I was driving home, and I couldn’t wait to get there. I wasn’t late for anything and there was nothing urgent waiting for me. But my mind was racing. I was frustrated with life. Frustrated with not knowing wh