I’ve seen more tears this week than I have in a long time. Mine included.

It’s not about the setback.
It’s about how you respond to it.

Every time you fall, you have a choice.

And it doesn’t have to be made immediately.

You can spend days in your emotions.
Days feeling it in your body.
Days sitting with the disappointment, the shame, the frustration.

But eventually a decision has to be made.

Will it define you?
Or will you rise and become stronger because of it?

This past week has been a rough one.

A personal setback sent me spiralling a little.
The fact that the world also currently feels like it’s burning didn’t help.

Everything felt big.
The guilt.
The shame.
The self-judgment.

And I wasn’t alone in it.

This week has been heavy for so many around me.
I don’t think I’ve seen so many tears in the studio before.

It has all felt like a lot.

But a simple tarot pull helped put things back into perspective.

One card.
One message that landed exactly where it needed to.

The Wheel of Fortune.

A reminder that life is always turning.

Highs.
Lows.
Cycles.

So much of it completely outside of our control.

What we can control is how we respond.

The Wheel of Fortune is a card of acceptance and surrender.
Of life lessons and trusting something bigger than us.

It reminded me that there are gifts hidden in the lows.

Wisdom that only comes through the hard moments.

But those gifts only reveal themselves if you get back up…
take the lesson…
and keep moving forward.

Reflection is powerful.

But living in it forever makes the lesson meaningless.

This week’s journal prompts:

What gifts can I find in the madness?
How can I use them to move forward?