Let it sink in

The turning point in your life is not a big grand event, like a car crash or the moment you hold your newborn in your arms the first time. Those memories are precious, and will forever be etched in your mind.

But when those moments are occurring, you have adrenaline seeping through your veins. You're in the moment. You're barely able to take in every last detail.

The turning points in your life are the learning points in your life. They come in the quiet, still moments long after the big event.

It's the realisation you are a mother, at 2am in the morning watching your baby's sweet face droop into sleep while you nurse them. The fact that you're a mother hits you like a ton of bricks like its the first time anyone's announced it. How much you love your baby overwhelms you like a tidal wave.

It's the realisation that you're about to have your next birthday. That you almost didn't make it, to it.

Give yourself time to process any big event. Your life lessons and turning points will come from those moments.