When Strength Starts to Feel Heavy..........Permission to PAUSE.

There’s a quiet kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from laziness or lack of motivation, it comes from constantly showing up in day-to-day life.

Lately, I’ve felt it in the still moments.... when I stop and pause, when the house is finally quiet, when the last email has been answered, when the flight planning checklist is ticked (well, mostly). That lingering question: Am I okay? Not the surface-level “I’m fine” answer we give others. But a real, raw check-in with myself.

My life is incredibly full, wonderfully full of the things that I care deeply about. A business I’ve poured my heart into, a home to run, people I love and care for, and a deep passion for aviation and my students. I am always learning, always teaching, always moving. Some days, I feel like I’m flying full throttle in every direction, and I am honest when I say I am loving it. But on other days, I wonder if I’ve forgotten how to land and those are the hard days.

And what I’ve come to realize is this, most women I know aren’t struggling because they are weak, they are struggling because they have been strong for too long.

We carry so much on our shoulders, for our families, our work, our teams, our communities. And somewhere along the way, we start believing that rest is a luxury we have to earn. That if we just push through a little longer, everything will fall into place.

But this isn’t about pushing through. It’s about resetting yourself!

It is about returning to a version of ourselves that isn’t running beyond human limitations.

It’s about remembering that we’re not super machines, we are human. And we deserve care, too.

You don’t have to earn a rest. You just have to allow it.

So, I’m asking you........... not as a business owner, an educator or an aviator, but as a woman standing right there with you................

When was the last time you checked in on yourself?

Are you really, okay?

Do you need a reset?

Give yourself permission to pause. Not forever, just for long enough to breathe, recalibrate, and come home to yourself again.

You’re not failing. You’re just human. And that is more than enough.