Strong Doesn’t Always Look Like What You Think

Strong isn’t just muscles and hustle.

It’s easy to think strength looks like someone who has it “all together.” Perfect planner. Clean house. Meal prepped. Career thriving. Selfies glowing.

But let me tell you what I’ve learned:

• Strength is getting out of bed when you’re running on fumes.

• It’s asking for help when you were taught to do everything on your own.

• It’s being patient with your healing.

For me, strength looked like nursing a baby while on a Zoom meeting… crying in the car after daycare drop-off… showing up to the gym when my body felt foreign… and learning to forgive myself for not being “on” all the time.

We live in a culture that praises grind and glam. But I want to celebrate the quiet strength — the soft, gritty, holy kind of strength that lives in mothers, caregivers, and everyday warriors.

Strength is in the showing up.

It’s in the starting over.It’s in the deep breaths, the “no” you finally said, the boundary you honored, the nap you took instead of folding the laundry.

You are strong. Even when you don’t feel it. Especially then.

Let’s redefine strength — together.