Good morning friends! 💜

 I spent the last half hour writing out a beautiful blog post about this last year (carefully curating my words without any help from AI) and suddenly my computer crashed and I lost it. I have to say… I am now processing disappointment. However, I am also remembering that each of us are creators and we get to choose and put meaning to all things that happen in our lives. The meaning I am assigning to that experience is that those words were only meant for me and what I am meant to share today gets to be different.

Let's talk about disappointment...

Disappointment is an emotion that sits somewhere between longing and grief. It emerges when our expectations, often tender, sometimes sacred—meet reality and come away bruised. It’s a teacher most of us don’t ask for, but one that always arrives with a message. It says: something you cared about didn’t come to pass. What will you do with that care now?

For many people I know (and maybe for you, too), disappointment has been surfacing lately- not as a fleeting frustration, but as a deeper reckoning with hope, timing, and trust. Disappointment in relationships, in dreams deferred, in the not-yet-arrived. It has weight. And it deserves to be felt. We honor our hearts by acknowledging when something we deeply wanted didn’t happen the way we imagined. That acknowledgment is a kind of sacred pause.

But here’s where the encouragement comes in: Disappointment isn’t the end of the story. It’s a fork in the road. It’s the soul’s invitation to reimagine, to ask again, to reconnect with the inner well of creativity and resilience.

When we allow disappointment to soften us rather than harden us, we become more spacious inside. We become more attuned to what really matters. We stop chasing outcomes and start deepening into presence. And from presence, our next step becomes clear- not forced, but felt.

So if you’re sitting with disappointment right now, you’re not alone. Let it speak to you. Let it teach you. And when you’re ready, let it move you. Not backwards, not even necessarily forwards, but deeper into your truth. The dream may change. The words may shift. But the essence of you—the creator, the meaning-maker, the soul on a journey—remains strong, tender, and whole.

We are all in the process of becoming.

Much Love and Blessings,

Crystal 🤍