What Have You Adapted to Without Realizing?

Yesterday, as I drove to meet some of leadership team of Rise, I noticed something that caused me to pause.

For months, I’ve been driving through roads lined with storm debris, uprooted trees, broken branches, damaged or even destroyed homes and piles of destruction just waiting to be cleared. It’s just been there every single day... a very normal part of the landscape.

But as I got closer to my destination, something seemed off...and then I realized why. The roads were clear. The trees were standing. There was no sign of the storm.

And in that moment, it hit me... I had completely adapted to the destruction. What was once shocking and unsettling had faded into the background of my daily life. I stopped questioning it... stopped even noticing it, because I had just gotten used to it.

And it made me wonder…

What else do we adapt to without realizing it?

How often do we:
✨ Normalize stress, telling ourselves “this is just life”?
✨ Settle into routines that drain us simply because they’re familiar?
✨ Stay in environments or relationships that no longer serve us..because change feels harder?

We don’t always notice the weight we’re carrying until we step into a space where it doesn’t exist.

But here’s the thing… growth doesn’t just happen by adding more to our plates. Sometimes, it happens by unlearning what we’ve accepted as normal and making space for something better.

So let me ask you:
What have you adapted to that’s actually holding you back?

Take a moment. Sit with it. Awareness is the first step to breaking free from the patterns we never meant to settle into.

And if you’re ready to start making those shifts, I’ve got something coming soon...self-paced workbooks designed to help you break free from the habits, thought patterns, and beliefs that have been keeping you stuck.

I’ll be sharing more details soon, but if you want to be the first to know when they’re available, just hit reply and let me know!

Because sometimes, the biggest change starts with simply noticing what we’ve been carrying all along.