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TEND TO YOUR SOUL LIKE YOU WOULD A GARDEN

Quote by Michel Van Devender reading tend to your soul like you would a garden pull the weeds let the light in trust the bloom on white background in typewriter font

Growth isn't always loud and announced. Most of the time it's steady, invisible work that happens when no one else is watching, including you.

We spend a lot of time pushing and hustling toward some version of ourselves we think we're supposed to be by now. But a garden doesn't grow that way. It grows because someone showed up consistently and paid attention. Pulled what wasn't serving it. Watered it when it was parched. Made sure the light could get in. Trusted that something was happening even when nothing looked different on the surface.

Your soul works the same way. It needs tending, not forcing, space, not pressure. And the same patience you'd give something growing in the ground, the faith and belief that it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, even when you can't see it yet.

You're not behind, and you're definitely not too slow. You're just growing in your own time, you're on your own schedule. And that's enough, just as you are enough.

xx,

Michel

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