The Grit Journal

Category: Healing, Growth & Hot Mess Moments

  • The Holistic Life Check-In: Looking at the Parts We Usually Ignore

    The Holistic Life Check-In: Looking at the Parts We Usually Ignore

    have you noticed you’ve been carrying a lot? If you’re here reading this right now, chances are you are feeling “it”. We think we need a new job, a new relationship, a new planner, a new city, or a whole personality transplant, when really we just need to zoom out and ask ourselves: “What parts…

  • How to Recognize When your nervous system has had enough

    How to Recognize When your nervous system has had enough

    What it sounds like when When Your Nervous System Is Telling You It’s Time to Let Go If you’ve been white knuckling your way through your days with your shoulders touching your ears and permanent bite marks in your inner lip, that’s your nervous system trying to tell you the truth before your mind is…

  • The Reintroduction

    The Reintroduction

    Meeting your authentic self There is a version of you that exists underneath everything you have been told to be. An Authentic version. Underneath the labels. Underneath the expectations. Hidden underneath the roles you learned to play so well that eventually you forgot they were performances in the first place. I think most of us…

  • When Your Body Starts Telling You What Your Mind Tried to Ignore

    When Your Body Starts Telling You What Your Mind Tried to Ignore

    How repeated patterns become somatic, visceral, and impossible to ignore You Kept Listening to Their Words. Your Body Didn’t. You don’t realize it’s happening at first.It just feels like disappointment. A conversation that didn’t go anywhere. An apology that sounded right but somehow didn’t land. A promise that gave you a flicker of hope… and…

  • You Have 72 Hours. Where Are They Going?

    You Have 72 Hours. Where Are They Going?

    Using the 168-Hour Week to See Where Your Life Is Actually Going You have 72 “extra” hours every week. You don’t “not have time.” You have 168 hours a week. When you take out work and sleep, that leaves you with 72 hours. Seventy-two extra hours. Every week. The same as everyone else. And yet…

  • Finding Your Balance: You’re Not Falling Apart. You’re Out of Alignment

    Finding Your Balance: You’re Not Falling Apart. You’re Out of Alignment

    If everything in your life feels a little off… your energy, your focus, your motivation… It’s not random. It’s not a personality flaw. It’s misalignment. And until you can see where your life is out of sync… you’ll keep feeling stuck without knowing why.

  • The Messy Middle of Healing and growth

    The Messy Middle of Healing and growth

    Healing sounds peaceful when people talk about it. Words like growth, alignment, and inner peace get thrown around like the process is calm and graceful. But most of the time it feels less like enlightenment and more like your brain is being run by a drunk squirrel with anxiety and a megaphone. The real shift…

  • Healing Isn’t Linear. It’s More Like a Drunk Squirrel Crossing the Road

    Healing Isn’t Linear. It’s More Like a Drunk Squirrel Crossing the Road

    Healing is often portrayed as a serene journey, but the reality is chaotic and messy. True healing involves emotional struggles, setbacks, and confronting uncomfortable truths. Growth is nonlinear, requiring self-awareness and accountability. It’s about understanding past patterns and making difficult changes, even when progress feels slow or disjointed.

  • Understanding Avoidance: The Real Reason You’re Not Motivated

    Understanding Avoidance: The Real Reason You’re Not Motivated

    Struggling with motivation? The problem may not be laziness—it may be avoidance. A raw look at why we get stuck and what clarity actually changes.