A new day isn’t proof that life suddenly got easier — it’s proof that you get another chance to meet it differently. You don’t have to carry yesterday’s pressure into today. You don’t have to repeat old expectations just because they’ve always been there. Growth sometimes looks like choosing a steadier pace, clearer boundaries, or a quieter kind of confidence. Strength isn’t about pushing until you burn out. It’s about knowing when to reset your focus and move with intention instead of pressure. So today, stand a little taller in who you are right now — not the version you think you should be. Take one action that feels honest, grounded, and yours.

Attached some lovely Valentines activities below! 💕

Not quite finished but this is pretty near to complete 🤗 Now just to wait for them to arrive and craft 100 together !

There’s a quiet pressure to look solid, capable, unshakeable… but being human means feeling the weight as well as the strength. Healing isn’t a weakness to hide — it’s a responsibility we owe ourselves. The strongest people aren’t the ones who pretend they’re fine; they’re the ones honest enough to admit when something hurts and brave enough to work through it. You can be resilient and still need repair. You can move forward and still be healing. So don’t measure your strength by how little you feel. Measure it by your willingness to keep growing, to keep learning yourself, and to keep showing up — even while you’re still becoming whole.

I stayed up too late and I’m tired and irritable today. Then I caught myself thinking — imagine being small, exhausted, and not having the words or regulation skills yet. Sometimes behaviour is just a nervous system running on empty. When adults are tired we lose patience faster, everything feels louder, and small things take more effort than they should. Most of us still have years of practice masking that — children don’t. Their nervous systems are still learning how to cope, so tiredness comes out as tears, defiance, silliness, or shutting down rather than “I need rest”. It’s a useful reframe for parents because it shifts the question from “what’s wrong with this behaviour?” to “what’s the child carrying right now?” Sleep debt, sensory load, transitions, growth spurts — all of it lowers capacity.