We are conditioned to worship clarity—to equate certainty with success, to believe that direction must always precede action. We think that if we could just get clear before we begin—on our purpose, our message, our niche—then everything would align. But for those of us in the work of wellness and transformation, it rarely happens that way.

Four billion years of evolution did not plant the hunger for more inside us by accident. There is intelligence in it. Whether you believe in God or in nature, the truth is life is evolving through you. To feel an ache for more is not failure—it could be the very raw material of your becoming.

Your voice doesn’t need to be universal, perfect, or objectively “right” to matter. You are not here to articulate grand, all-encompassing truths. You are here to express your truth — the deeply subjective, cellular, messy experience of being alive — and in doing so, you allow nature, evolution, and life itself to speak through you.

Avoidance wears many spiritual disguises. I have so much grace for the early phase, when your nervous system is catching up, when you’re still building the inner scaffolding and it’s truly not time yet. But there’s a point when “not yet” becomes “never,” and when you’re not actually waiting anymore… you’re avoiding.

There are very few things in life you can count on. People will leave and identities will shed like old skin. The world will change around you. Money will come and go, happiness will ebb and flow. Life will happen, and as it does, almost nothing will stay the same. But you do have one thing that will never abandon you: your voice.

One of the first things I had to give up in this work was caring what other people thought. Not in a flippant, surface-level, “I don’t give a shit” kind of way. I mean in the deeper, cellular sense of unhooking myself from external validation, of refusing to let other people’s opinions, reactions, or silence determine what, or whether I create.