Member-only story
Your Life Experience is Valid
Life Skills Make You Indomitable.
We often measure ourselves by checklists: job titles, degrees, income brackets, or how neatly we appear to have things figured out. But life doesn’t really happen in checklists — it happens in layers.
What’s a life experience?
It’s everything you’ve lived through — the seasons you barely survived, the times you rose from disappointment, the moments you had to unlearn what hurt you. Life experience is what shapes your instincts, your perspective, your resilience. It’s wisdom that didn’t come easy, but came anyway.
What’s a life skill?
Life skills are the abilities that help us move forward with grace and intention — communication, emotional regulation, problem-solving, adaptability, time management, boundary-setting. They’re the tools we sharpen to survive and thrive, even in the face of uncertainty.
I used to think I wasn’t “ready” — not for a new job, not for a hard conversation, not for change. But one day, during a moment of quiet reflection, I realized I had already lived through so much. Not just survived, but learned — how to pause before reacting, how to handle rejection, how to find clarity in chaos.
That’s when it hit me: I am…
