When I Finally Stopped Running From Myself

For a long time, I believed that meditating once a day for 10 or 20 minutes was enough — and if I skipped a day or two, it was no big deal. Sometimes I even convinced myself that running counted as meditation.

But then my life became overwhelming. Stress, exhaustion, sleepless nights… and without realizing it, I started shutting my heart down. I wasn’t trusting myself. I wasn’t believing in myself or my own needs.

That’s when I decided to try something different. I committed to meditating twice a day. I started with just 10 minutes and slowly built into a rhythm — 30 minutes in the morning, and 10–20 minutes after work.

What I discovered surprised me:

Meditation is self-care.

Meditation is a gift to myself.

It brings me back to the stillness within — the part of me I had forgotten in all the noise.

It feels like liquid gold soothing my mind, easing my worries, and softening the heaviness I’d been carrying.

For so long, I didn’t trust myself. I didn’t believe in myself.

Meditation is helping me heal that.

Here’s to trusting again.

Here’s to believing again.

Much love,

Lindsay