09/29/2026
Last night, I thought I was meeting my two best friends for dinner so I could hear all about their trip to Spain and Paris….
Instead, I walked in and found a table full of some of my favorite humans waiting to surprise me with a divorce dinner 💗
Friend, I don’t even know if I have words yet for what it feels like to be loved like this…
To be known so deeply that people understand this isn’t just the end of a marriage. It’s the end of an incredibly hard season of my life that asked more of me than I knew I had to give. One I don’t know how I would’ve survived without the people sitting around that table tonight.
They checked on me.
They let me fall apart, showed me grace, and
reminded me who I was when I couldn’t quite find her.
They loved me without rushing me, fixing me, judging me or asking me to make my pain more comfortable for them.
Last night, they helped me celebrate the woman walking out the other side 🦋
We don’t talk nearly enough about the life-changing power of safe, intimate, platonic friendship as adults. The kind where you can…
✨ tell the whole truth
✨ where you don’t have to perform or pretend you’re okay
✨ where people know what you’ve lived through and don’t see you as damaged by it.
Those friendships are sacred 💗
My people are a huge part of the reason I survived what felt impossible. I genuinely cannot imagine my life without them.
And having my mom there…. watching me be loved and celebrated by this little village I’ve built around myself, meant more than I can explain.
I’ve lost a lot in this chapter, but sitting at that table, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much I still have….
How much love, history, laughter, and how much possibility there is on the other side of something you once thought might break you.
I don’t know exactly what this next chapter holds, but I feel cherished, seen, cared for, and maybe most of all, I feel hopeful.
If you’re walking through your own impossible season right now, please don’t underestimate the people who are willing to sit beside you in it.
Let them love you 🥰
Someday, you may look around a table and realize they helped carry you all the way home to yourself.
