For the past few months, I’ve been writing about my experience rebuilding a soft life after burnout: learning to slow down, heal, and find beauty again in the ordinary days of biblical motherhood. That series has been about the inner work God has done and continues to do in me spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
But now I’m in a new season.
After so much time rebuilding gentle rhythms and romanticizing life as a mom, I’ve started discovering sides of who I am in addition to being “Mom.” Opening up about my testimony and past experiences through writing and content creation has played a huge role in that, and I want to keep leaning in.
This new series, **The Soft Life Glow-Up**, is my way of exploring and documenting this present journey.
Each week, I’ll share one intentional thing I’m doing to either better or treat myself, not from a place of hustle or reinvention, but from a place of gentle curiosity. I want to know the woman God is shaping me into now that the dust of survival has settled.
Motherhood changes you at the most fundamental level. The things I used to care about, I no longer do, and now I care deeply about things I never did before. I’m growing right alongside my girls, and it’s such a joy.
I don’t need to find fulfillment in being something outside of “mom,” and I also don’t find my sole identity in being “mom,” because first and foremost, I’m a daughter of God.
But I am excited to see what other chapters God is writing in my story as the chapters of wife and mom continue to unfold. Our God is the master storyteller, after all. Just read His book.
I like to think of this next part of my life as my own makeover montage à la *Elle Woods* from *Legally Blonde*, becoming the best version of myself but with really good hair.
Speaking of hair, what am I doing for Week 1 of The Soft Life Glow-Up?
Getting my hair done
Something so simple, but it felt like a small reclamation of self.
And the best part? I’m using money I earned through my making content about my testimony to pay for it.
It’s more than a haircut. It’s a reminder that the seeds I’ve planted in faith are starting to bloom.
I’m preparing to take new branding photos, and I want them to reflect not just who I’ve been rebuilding as a mom, but who I’m becoming as a woman.
So, if you’ve been in a season of quiet healing or burnout recovery, maybe this can be your invitation too:
To not just rebuild life as it was, but to reimagine who you’re blooming into next.
The Soft Life Glow-Up isn’t about changing everything.
It’s about tending, treating, and transforming softly.
Let’s glow on this journey together ✨.
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