The Kitchen Sink Moment That Changed How I See Myself

This morning, I was standing at the kitchen sink when a single thought stopped me in my tracks.

*How did this happen to me?*

I closed my eyes, and suddenly it all came flooding back — the divorce, COVID, my daughters moving out, the pressure to sell the house, and me quietly falling apart while trying to hold everything together.

For years, I lived in a pattern I didn’t even have a name for: **self-sacrifice**.

I put everyone else first.

I was the strong one.

I was the capable one.

I handled things so others didn’t have to.

Even in the middle of my own health crisis, I believed it wasn’t okay to put myself first.

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