Brianna Gomez

However, once you do, you are able to walk away and look back and be like, girl, what the heck was that?

I thought that it was something that I needed so badly and it hurt, girl.

It hurt.

If you've ever lost anyone in your life, you know that it hurts and it feels like people are going to have to physically pry you down.

off this person to detach you from this relationship and you might kick and scream and cry and bawl your eyes out and then give it a couple weeks and you'll be like that's the best thing that's ever happened to me and now i'm on cloud nine speaking from experience okay i just like to use that as an example because it's something that i thought was serving me it's something that i thought was a source of happiness like it was food for the soul truly that's what i thought oh girl it was draining the life out of me

And anyone, when they go through a breakup, it feels like it's rock bottom.

It feels like, oh, it feels like how could anything in life possibly be worse than this?

Girl, every single thing, person, situation, relationship I have encountered since then,

so much better, so much healthier.

Not only that though, the version of myself that I not just unlocked but was able to build after shedding that old skin is someone who I could have never been if I was holding on to that old relationship forever.

So I want you to view this as a pruning season.

I learned this term from going to church but it works in all aspects of life but it's the idea that

God is pruning your life.

Think of a tree that was once a very beautiful, perfect tree, but then after a while it starts like getting long crazy branches and leaves and it starts weighing down, it's too heavy for it to carry.

You need to prune it.

You prune the tree, you clip some things off that were not meant to be there, that they outgrew a little too long.

and suddenly the tree can stand up straight and grow again.

Think of pruning season.

God is pruning things out of your life that maybe you were holding on really tightly to, but they aren't serving you.

They are actually secretly weighing you down.