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When I first came up with the name Rise Above Your Norm, it wasn’t just a catchy title or a motivational phrase.
It was a promise — to myself.
A promise that no matter how many times life broke me down, I would find a way to rise again.
That I would no longer settle for survival.
That I would rebuild, even from the ashes, and help others do the same.
🌪️ Breaking Free From My “Normal”
For most of my life, my norm was pain.
It was chaos, addiction, and trauma.
It was living in constant fight-or-flight mode — never trusting peace, never feeling safe in my own skin.
That was the world I knew. That was my normal.
But there comes a moment in healing when you realize — your “normal” isn’t serving you anymore.
It’s not protecting you, it’s holding you hostage.
And that’s when the real work begins:
The decision to rise above it.
💔 Rising Doesn’t Mean Forgetting
Rising above your norm doesn’t mean pretending the pain never happened.
It doesn’t mean ignoring your past, or erasing your mistakes.
It means facing them — owning them — and still choosing to grow.
It means saying:
> “Yes, I’ve been through hell… but I’m not staying there.”
For me, it meant looking in the mirror and deciding to stop identifying with the brokenness, and start identifying with the strength it took to survive.
🌱 A Movement of Healing
Rise Above Your Norm isn’t just my personal mantra anymore — it’s a movement.
It’s a message to anyone who’s ever felt too damaged to start over.
To the addict trying to stay clean.
To the survivor learning to trust again.
To the mother rebuilding her life piece by piece.
It’s about knowing that we all have a norm — a version of life that once felt unchangeable — and realizing we have the power to rise above it.
💫 My Why
I started this journey in recovery, rebuilding from nothing — not just to heal myself, but to use my story to help others heal too.
Because healing alone is hard.
But healing together? That’s how we change lives.
Through my blog, my future practice, and the community we’re building here — I want to remind people that your story doesn’t end in your brokenness.
It begins the moment you decide to rise.
🕊️ Final Reflection
Rise Above Your Norm means rewriting the story you once thought was over.
It means giving yourself permission to grow beyond what hurt you.
It means choosing peace, even when chaos feels more familiar.
And most of all — it means believing that no matter what you’ve been through,
you are worthy of a life that feels safe, whole, and yours again.
So here’s to rising — again, and again, and again.
Because every time we do,
we prove that healing is possible. 💛
BigmommaJ
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