The Lizzie Experience

08/20/2026

WHY DID YOU CROSS MY PATH?

Have you ever looked back at someone who crossed your path and wondered:

Why you? Why then? Why at all?

Some people enter our lives so briefly that, measured in time, they barely seem to have been there. A conversation. A chance meeting. A few weeks or months.

And yet, sometimes, those are the people who leave us thinking long after they're gone.

Then there are the people who stay for years, even decades. They become woven into our lives and we assume that because they've always been there, they always will be.

Until, sometimes, they aren't.

We often hear that people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. But maybe the more interesting question isn't how long someone stays.

Maybe it's:

What did their presence reveal?

Did they teach us something about love, friendship or boundaries? Did they remind us of a part of ourselves we'd forgotten? Did they show us what we want more of or what we will never accept again?

Maybe they simply made us feel something we hadn't felt in a very long time.

And perhaps that's enough.

I don't believe we need to turn every encounter into fate. Sometimes, people simply meet. Circumstances change. Relationships end. Lives move in different directions.

But there is a difference between searching for meaning and inventing it.

Searching asks: What did this experience show me about myself?

Inventing asks: How can I make this mean what I desperately want it to mean?

Sometimes, we become so consumed with understanding why someone left that we miss what their presence already gave us.

Maybe the better question isn't:

Why didn't you stay?

Maybe it's:

Who am I because you were here?

The length of an encounter doesn't determine its significance. And an ending doesn't erase what came before it.

We don't always get to know why someone crossed our path. We do get to decide what we carry forward.

And perhaps that is where the meaning lives.

Resilience in Action: We may never understand why someone crossed our path, but we can honour what the connection taught us and choose what we carry forward.

08/19/2026

A Ritual of Light ✨

Most mornings, before the day really begins, I have a little ritual.

I turn on the Turkish moon lamp I made myself. I light a candle and my candlesticks. I switch on the tiny sparkling lights tucked inside a blue glass bottle. And there, among all that warm light, sits a little heart that says Amour.

Then I make my coffee.

Nothing extraordinary and maybe that's exactly the point.

I sit for a while. I think about the day ahead. I might scroll a little, exchange a message with a friend, or simply enjoy the quiet.

Over time, I've realized how much these small rituals matter.

They give us a moment between waking up and stepping into everything the day may ask of us. A chance to choose calm. To choose intention. To notice beauty. To begin gently.

Especially on a rainy morning like this one.

We don't always get to choose what the day brings.

But sometimes, we can choose how we enter it.

And this is how I enter mine.

Coffee, candlelight, a little Amour...
and a ritual of light. ✨☕️

Resilience in Action:
Resilience can look like candlelight, coffee and a peaceful beginning 💕

08/18/2026

TAKE THE SHOT

There comes a point when we have to stop standing quietly on the sidelines of our own lives.

• If you see someone you find attractive, say hello.
• If you love someone’s dress, tell them.
• If someone intrigues you, start the conversation.
• If there’s something you want, ask.
• If an opportunity excites you, go after it.

Somewhere along the way, many of us became so afraid of rejection that we started protecting ourselves from possibility too.

And I’m not sure that’s protection at all.

Maybe you say hello and they’re not interested. Maybe you ask and the answer is no. Maybe you put yourself out there and discover it isn’t reciprocated.

Okay. You survive that.

But what about the other possibility?

• What if they smile back?
• What if the answer is yes?
• What if that five-second decision to be brave changes the direction of your day or your life?

We spend so much time worrying about how we’ll look if we’re rejected. Maybe we should spend a little more time wondering what we might miss if we never try.

You don’t need to be thinner, younger, richer, more successful, more confident, or living some perfectly put-together life before you’re allowed to participate in it.

This is your life now.

Flirt. Compliment. Ask. Introduce yourself. Speak up. Be interested. Be interesting.

Take the shot.

Not because you’re guaranteed a yes.

Because you’re strong enough to handle a no and you deserve the chance to find out what happens when the answer is yes.

Resilience in Action: Having the courage to risk a little rejection rather than living with a lot of 'what if?'

08/17/2026

Well, would you look at that 😊

Apparently, I’ve been showing up here for 36 weeks in a row.

Thirty-six weeks of sharing the good stuff, the hard stuff, the ridiculous stuff, the things I’ve learned, the things I’m still figuring out, and all the little bits of life in between.

And I have to admit…I’m kind of proud of that.

Because showing up consistently doesn’t mean you always feel inspired.

Sometimes you’re motivated.
Sometimes you have something brilliant to say.
Sometimes you’re staring at the screen thinking, I have absolutely nothing today 😑

But you show up anyway.

And maybe that’s what consistency really is.

Not perfection.
Not having it all figured out.
Just deciding that something matters to you — and continuing to come back to it.

So I’m celebrating my little 36-week badge today. 🎉

And if there’s something you’ve been trying to stick with — writing, walking, healing, creating, exercising, starting over, building something new — keep going.

Those ordinary days when you simply show up?

They add up.

Apparently, sometimes Instagram even throws confetti at you for it. 😂🩷

Resilience in Action:
Keep showing up. You may be further along than you realize.

08/13/2026

.A single day can hold both the good and the hard.

There can be a morning filled with happiness, connection and the wonderful feeling that life is moving in the right direction.

And then something shifts.

The mood changes. Something disappoints us. Something feels heavier than it did a few hours earlier.

It’s tempting to let that difficult moment become the story of the entire day.

But it doesn’t have to.

Maybe part of resilience is learning to hold both—the good and the difficult—without allowing one to erase the other.

A hard afternoon doesn’t mean it was a bad day.

The laughter still happened.
The progress was still made.
The joy was still real.

And when things feel a little heavier, sometimes we don’t need to fix or analyze everything. We can simply settle.

Notice the sunshine. Eat something that takes care of our body. Enjoy something simply because we enjoy it. Look at the flowers. Sit quietly for a while.

And remember:

A difficult moment does not get to rewrite an entire day.

There was good here too.

Sometimes resilience is simply remembering to give the good its fair share of the story.

Resilience in action: Letting a hard moment be a hard moment—not a definition of the whole day.

08/11/2026

08/11/2026

You Don’t Need a Breakthrough. You Need a Tuesday.
We put an awful lot of pressure on breakthroughs.
The big realization.
The life-changing decision.
The moment when everything finally clicks and we announce, Okay. This is it. Everything changes from here.
I love those moments.
I've had a few of them.
But I think we give them far too much credit.

Because most lives aren't changed in the big moments.

They're changed on Tuesdays.

Ordinary, unremarkable Tuesdays when nobody is watching and nothing particularly exciting is happening.
You get up.
You make the coffee...
You say no to something that isn't good for you.
Or yes to something that might be.

None of it feels particularly life-changing while you're doing it.
That's the problem.
We're conditioned to look for transformation in dramatic places.
We want the before-and-after photo...

But there's an enormous amount of life between before and after.

And most of it looks remarkably ordinary.
I've spent a lot of time in my life waiting to feel different before doing things differently.

Waiting for that magical internal click that says, Okay, Lizzie. Now you're ready.

I'm increasingly convinced that readiness is overrated.

Sometimes, you just need a Tuesday.

A completely ordinary day when you decide to do one or two things that move your life in the direction you want it to go.

And then maybe you do it again Wednesday.

Not because you've suddenly become incredibly disciplined.
Not because you've figured everything out.

Just because that's how a life gets built.
Quietly.
Repeatedly.
Almost invisibly.
Until one day you look around and realize something has changed.

The funny thing is, you'll probably be tempted to point to some big moment and call it your breakthrough.
But perhaps the breakthrough wasn't a moment at all.
Perhaps it was a hundred ordinary Tuesdays when you kept showing up.
So if today doesn't feel particularly inspiring, that's okay.
You don't need to reinvent yourself today.
You don't need to solve your whole life.
You don't need a breakthrough.
It's Tuesday.
Do something small that your future self will be glad you did. ❤️