Finding My Footing in the Messy Middle

August 9, 2026

by Shelley

The last few days have been a little… chaotic.

Not necessarily bad. Just full.

The kind of full where your brain has 47 tabs open and somehow every single one is playing music.

Motherhood has been pulling at my heart a little lately. My youngest is away with his dad for a bit, and while I know he’s having fun and making memories, there’s still that little ache that comes with suddenly having a much quieter house.

If you’re a mom, you probably know exactly what I mean.

Then there’s work, building my cleaning business, parenting, trying to keep up with life, and figuring out what this next chapter is supposed to look like.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about how different life looks when you stop running from yourself.

I’m coming up on five years sober, and something I’ve realized along the way is that sobriety isn’t necessarily about everything becoming easy.

It’s about learning how to actually feel things.

The good stuff.

The hard stuff.

The lonely moments.

The proud moments.

The days where you feel like you can conquer the world and the days where you’re just proud you made it through.

Trying to remember to seek God during both.

For a long time, I thought having my life together meant having everything figured out.

Now I think it means being willing to keep figuring it out.

I’m building a business. I’m raising kids. I’m working on myself. I’m learning to trust God’s plan for my life instead of trying to control every detail myself. I may not always understand where He’s leading me, but I’m learning to have faith that there’s a purpose in every step.

And honestly?

There’s something really empowering about that.

Maybe that’s why I love the idea of finding your footing.

Sometimes you need a solid pair of boots to literally keep you moving.

But sometimes finding your footing has nothing to do with what’s on your feet.

It’s about finding your confidence again.

Learning to trust yourself.

Standing firmly in the person you’ve become.

And realizing you don't have to have the entire path mapped out before you take the next step.

I’m still figuring it out.

Still building.

Still learning.

Still occasionally making questionable decisions and laughing about them later.

But I’m moving forward.

And right now, that feels pretty darn good.

One step at a time.

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