💚🔥🐉 This weekend blessing is personal.

Because I am in a dip.

Professionally.

Romantically.

Financially.

The kind of dip where the ground feels less stable than you would like to admit.

Where you desire not just affection, but alignment, a shared life built on values, depth, and mutual choosing.

Where you smile in meetings but lie awake at night calculating numbers.

Where your competence is intact, but your certainty is not.

And I want to say this out loud:

Even as a leadership trainer.

Even as someone who teaches resilience.

Even as someone who writes about courage.

I am not immune to valleys.

There are moments I feel the old dragons whispering

“Maybe you miscalculated.” 🐉

“Maybe you’re too much.” 🐉

“Maybe you should have chosen differently.” 🐉

And yet.

Life-long adversity has taught me something powerful.

I bend.

But I do not quit.

I have rebuilt before.

I have started over before.

I have stood in rooms where I felt underestimated and still carved my place.

I have loved deeply and survived heartbreak.

I have faced financial fear and found my way through.

Resilience is not loud.

It is not a motivational quote.

It is a quiet decision made again and again:

I will not abandon myself.

And here’s something I’ve learned about “manifesting opportunities.”

Some people seem to attract them constantly.

But I don’t believe it’s magic.

I believe it’s the eyes.

When you have walked through enough darkness and kept your integrity, your eyes change.

You start seeing what others miss.

You recognize openings disguised as disruptions.

You sense alignment where others see chaos.

I am reminding myself of this right now.

The dip is uncomfortable.

It is humbling.

It is stretching me.

But it may also be positioning me.

I may not see the full path yet.

But I trust the version of me who has survived every previous storm.

🐉 A dragon in the valley does not forget it can fly.

It simply waits for the right current of air.

If you are in a dip too,

professionally, romantically, financially, emotionally ..

You are not weak.

You are in a chapter.

May this weekend bring steadiness.

May your eyes stay open to what is quietly forming.

May you remember that resilience is not the absence of fear,

it is hope that refuses to die.

I am still here.

Still standing.

Still believing.

And so are you. 💚🔥🐉