06/05/2026
What my stye on my eye has taught me…
7 weeks ago I woke up with a stye that turned into a chalazion. A big, swollen, red lump right on top of my eye.
And my first instinct? Hide.
Not just from the camera….from everything. From being seen. From showing up. I started shrinking myself in ways I hadn’t in a long time, slipping back into an old, familiar version of me that believed she needed to look a certain way to be worthy of taking up space.
I wanted to curl into a ball, pull the covers over my head, and just… disappear until it was gone.
7 weeks later, it’s still here. And so am I.
And here’s what it’s taught me…
💋Patience. Real patience. Surrendering to a timeline that isn’t mine to control.
💋Showing up anyway. Even when conditions aren’t perfect. Even when I don’t feel perfect. The world doesn’t need a polished version of me… it needs the real one. Bumpy eye and all.
💋And maybe the biggest lesson… this isn’t about me. When I make showing up about how I look or how I feel, I shrink.
When I remember that someone out there needs to hear what I have to say today… the lump on my eye becomes irrelevant.
Service over self-consciousness. Every time.
If you needed permission to show up imperfectly today… this is it💕💕💕