You have come so much farther than you think.

Knowing when and where you might still grow shows you already have.

Bella Martin
3 min readMar 22, 2024
Photo by Guillaume Bolduc on Unsplash

You have come so much farther than you think. One setback doesn’t mean you are right back to where you started. Knowing when and where you might still grow shows you already have. Asking questions and wondering where your answers are is the very proof that you are on the journey.

Stepping forward only to slide back is the signature of expansion. The daily ups and downs comprise the yearly climb, and what feels like stagnation today are the life chapters that one day you’ll look back on and remember only how they flew by. You’ll forget how moving toward the light often felt like stumbling through the dark.

How liberation sometimes came dressed as loss. How so many questions were asked and only a few were answered but those few became the assurances you rooted your life in. Those few were the signs from the universe you just couldn’t ignore. Those few were the truths that you could always cling to even when everything else crumbled.

You have come so much farther than you think, not because of how your life looks but because of how you are finding yourself in it. You are growing because you are being pruned. You are finding your way because you continue to get lost. You are stepping…

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Bella Martin

Words of healing, hope & happiness. | Find me on instagram @bellamwrites