Always Becoming

Pink Passage - Part 7 💞

June 1st marks four years since my breast cancer diagnosis.

Every year since, I’ve written what I call a Pink Passage.
Not because I have some perfect wisdom to share.
More because I need to stop and acknowledge what this experience has changed in me.

Cancer changes your relationship with time. You realize how easy it is to keep postponing things. To keep saying someday. Someday I’ll begin. Someday I’ll try. Someday I’ll fully step into the life I want.

Over these last four years, I think one of the biggest things I’ve learned is that I do not want to keep talking myself out of things anymore. Not because I’m fearless. I’m not. Fear still shows up. So does overwhelm. So do responsibilities, worries, and the weight of caring deeply about the people I love. But I also know how precious life is. And I know I still have ideas in me. Creativity in me. Dreams in me. A desire to keep growing, creating, learning, connecting, and becoming.

In many ways, Creating with Heart grew out of this deeper realization. A longing for creativity, connection, honesty, and spaces where people could feel less alone in their lives.

I think a part of me used to believe there was a certain point in life where reinvention stopped. Where people quietly settled into who they had already been. But I don’t believe that anymore.

I think we are always becoming. And maybe that is part of healing too.

So today, four years later, I feel grateful. Grateful to still be here. Grateful to still be dreaming. Grateful that I still have the courage to keep beginning again. And if there is something in your own life that you keep postponing, some dream, change, healing, or beginning that keeps calling to you, maybe this is your reminder too.

We are always becoming.

Love & Light,
Donna ❤️