When Everything Feels Like Too Much: Choosing Alignment

This week, my brain felt overloaded, not because I had too many ideas, but because I was trying to force myself into one lane.

I kept asking questions like Which version of me is the right one?

The strategist?

The creative?

The guide?

The builder?

And the more I tried to choose, the louder the overwhelm became.

The realization came quietly: I don’t actually have to be just one thing.

I can be whatever I want to be.

There was relief in that. And honesty, too. Because the chaos I’ve felt this year isn’t a failure of focus, but instead it’s been a season of becoming. 2025 has asked me to hold complexity, and not collapse under it. To allow parts of myself that don’t fit neatly together to coexist anyway.

Alignment, I’m learning, isn’t about narrowing until you disappear. It’s about holding every part of who you are and choosing from that wholeness.

When I stopped trying to force clarity, my center came back on its own. Not through a plan or a decision, but through permission.

Permission to pause.

Permission to be unfinished.

Permission to trust that I don’t need to resolve everything at once.

Maybe overwhelm isn’t a sign that something is wrong.Maybe it’s a signal that something new is still organizing itself.

So I’m choosing to let myself be expansive. To let my work, my creativity, and my identity breathe a little more. To trust that alignment can include many threads and that I don’t need to rush tying them together.