Rejection … We’ve all felt it. A relationship ends. A job says no. A family member pulls away. And it hurts. But here’s something I’ve learned… Rejection isn’t always there to break you. Sometimes, it’s there to wake you up . ✨ To a life that wasn’t working ✨ To habits that were hurting you ✨ To patterns that were quietly keeping you stuck For many of us, rejection becomes a trigger. A reason to shut down… or reach for a drink, a cigarette, food…or the phone 📱 You know the

When I was a young mum, there was no Google. No TikTok therapists. No comment sections full of strangers diagnosing your parents. There was a landline. I lived in Ireland. My parents lived in England. And because calls were expensive, I rang home about once a fortnight — sometimes once every two weeks — and I made them count. I’d ask my mother questions about raising children. About behaviour. About routines. About things I was worried I was getting wrong. Sometimes I asked a