✍🏽 Episode Summary:

She’s been gone nearly fifteen years.

But this morning, I heard her again.

Her voice.

Her lesson.

Her steady presence—teaching me something I wasn’t ready to learn until now.

This isn’t a story about food.

Or sugar.

It’s about grip.

Control.

And how sometimes, the strongest thing you can do…

is let go.

In this episode, I revisit a memory that raised me—

a memory that reached back through time

and unclenched something I didn’t know I was still holding.

And I ask the question that found me in the silence:

What if strength isn’t in how tight you hold…

but how gently you release?

📌 Inside This Episode:

* A lesson in surrender from my grandmother’s voice

* Why control feels safe, but costs you peace

* How grief can teach you what discipline never could

* What clenched fists keep out—even when they’re trying to protect you

💌 Your Turn:

What’s one thing you’re still holding onto,

hoping it’ll turn into something it never was?

What would happen if you let go—

not because you’re giving up…

but because you’re finally ready to receive?

Drop a comment or reply.

I read every one.

🕯️ Next Up:

Episode 16 – Title Coming Soon

Because before you open your hand,

you have to name what made you close it in the first place.

📣 Share the Series:

If this one unlocked something in you, pass it on.

Forward it to someone who still has their fist clenched around a memory,

a habit,

a hope…

they’re afraid to release.

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