What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Slow down. Listen more. You don’t know everything and that’s ok.

You don’t need to prove anything to anyone.

The things that feel life-or-death right now?

Most of them won’t matter in a few years.

The embarrassment.

The comparison.

The need to win.

The need to be right.

Peace is stronger than being loud.

You don’t have to defend yourself every time.

You don’t have to change anyone’s opinion to validate your own.

Confidence doesn’t argue.

Choose a college. Choose a major. Choose a path based on what you actually enjoy , not what sounds impressive. Not what makes the most money. Not what makes other people proud.

Money is useful.

But alignment is precious.

You are allowed to build a life that fits who God made you to be.

If I could sit beside her now, I wouldn’t just give advice.

I would tell her to walk with God sooner.

To pause before reacting.

To ask before choosing.

To let Him shape her identity before the world tried to.

Because everything she was trying to prove,

God was already forming.

Until next time,

Dominique