This Space Was Built From Rock Bottom and Hope

Let’s be clear—I didn’t float into healing on a yoga mat with a green juice and a gratitude journal. I crawled into it. Limped into it. Tripped and sobbed and clawed my way into it. I built this space out of necessity. Not out of trend, or timing, or tidy little success stories. This wasn’t a business idea I dreamed up on a vision board. This was survival. This was “I can’t keep living like this, something has to change.”

At one point, the pain in my life felt louder than anything else. I was drowning in self-doubt, shame, burnout, broken relationships, and a deep, aching sense of disconnection—from others, but also from myself. I didn’t recognize the person I had become. And worse, I had no idea how to get back to whoever I used to be.

But here’s what I’ve learned: maybe the point isn’t getting back. Maybe the point is becoming. Not who we were before the trauma, the loss, the mess, the anxiety—but who we were always meant to be underneath it all.

I hit a place I now call “the holy rock bottom.” The one where everything breaks just enough that you can start again—honestly this time. There’s a strange clarity in that kind of collapse. When all the masks fall off, and the distractions lose their grip, and you're left staring at yourself in the mirror, asking the hardest questions you've ever asked.

Who am I? What do I actually need? And how do I love myself through this?

Becoming U Wellness was born out of those questions. It started with small things. Writing down what hurt. Talking out loud about what I was ashamed of. Creating little reminders to be kinder to myself. Reading things that didn’t sugarcoat the hard stuff but gave me hope anyway. And slowly—very slowly—I started to feel like maybe I wasn’t alone. And maybe there was a reason I felt called to turn this pain into something useful.

So I created the space I couldn’t find. A space that doesn’t pretend life is always light and lovely. A space that says, “Yep, sometimes life sucks. Sometimes it’s heartbreak and panic attacks and ugly crying in your car. But you’re still worthy. You’re still growing. You’re still becoming.”

This isn’t a highlight reel. This is real life, in all its messy, miraculous glory. The hard conversations. The self-awareness that punches you in the gut. The small wins that don’t make it to Instagram. The days you feel like a walking contradiction—healing and hurting, grateful and exhausted, hopeful and heavy all at once.

And through it all, I want you to know: your rock bottom is not your ending. It’s a sacred starting point. It means something inside you still believes there’s more. That’s hope. That’s aliveness. That’s the part of you that refuses to give up, even when it feels like you’ve got nothing left.

That fire? That’s what built Becoming U Wellness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it forever: healing is not linear, and it’s not a solo act. We need spaces that say, “Come as you are—bruised, blooming, unsure, in progress.” We need reminders that rest is productive. That crying is cleansing. That laughter and therapy can coexist. That our struggles don’t disqualify us from joy. In fact, they often prepare us for it.

So if you’re reading this and you’re in your own messy middle—welcome. You’re not too late. You’re not too broken. You’re not the only one trying to make sense of all this. You are becoming. And this space? It was made for that.

It was made for you.

Let’s keep building—out of the wreckage, out of the wonder, out of the deep knowing that we’re allowed to grow in our own time, in our own way.

This space was built from rock bottom and hope.
And it holds every version of you—then, now, and next.