2025: The Year I Learned to Trust the Slow Work

Reflecting on faith, motherhood, creativity, and showing up in seasons of waiting

2025 felt like the kind of year where I had to be a little delusional to keep going.

Not delusional in a careless way — but in a faith-filled way. The kind where you keep showing up without visible proof that it’s working. Where you move forward without confirmation. Where you trust God even when clarity feels distant and the results haven’t caught up to the effort yet.

This year required blind faith.

I didn’t reach the financial goals I set for myself, and that truth mattered. As a mother and a creative, finances are never just numbers — they represent stability, freedom, and care. Balancing motherhood and creativity in this season meant learning to extend myself grace. Grace for limited capacity. Grace for slower progress. Grace for the reality that growth doesn’t always look the way we imagine it will.

Showing Up in the Waiting

Financial opportunities are still unfolding. I am still waiting. But one of the most important lessons I learned this year is that I had to show up like people were watching — even when it felt like they weren’t.

I had to act as if the work mattered. As if the vision was valid. As if the calling was real.

Because it is.

Consistency, I’ve learned, doesn’t always mean constant output. Sometimes it means choosing to return without resentment. Choosing to stay visible without forcing results. Choosing faith over frustration.

Trusting Myself as a Creator

This year deepened my trust in myself.

I committed to showing up as the version of myself I would be proud of — not the version chasing validation or shrinking to fit expectations. I stopped asking who I needed to become and started honoring who I already was.

That shift changed everything.

A Quiet but Meaningful Win

What surprised me most in 2025 was being named Social Media Content Creator of the Year by my peers.

That recognition mattered not because of the title, but because it affirmed the work I had been doing quietly and consistently. It reminded me that integrity, alignment, and authenticity are felt — even when they aren’t loudly celebrated.

Being in the Right Rooms

This year, I took intentional steps to place myself in new spaces. I tried different things. I said yes to rooms where I didn’t have to change myself to belong.

There is something sacred about being in environments where you are received, not tolerated. And this year offered more of those moments than I expected.

Faith, Service, and Gratitude

Above all, this year taught me to keep going and to trust God.

I returned to serving, grounding myself in something bigger than outcomes, algorithms, or accolades. I was reminded that not every blessing is loud — but every testimony is worth sharing.

As I close 2025, I do so with gratitude. Not because everything unfolded according to plan, but because I am still here — faithful, growing, and becoming.

I am learning to trust the slow work. And I believe that, in time, it will all make sense.