Why Lowering Your Standards May Pleasantly Surprise You

You’ve always been the strong one. The reliable one. The one who just “figures it out.” And now, navigating life as a new mother, wife, daughter, friend—you still feel the pressure to hold it all. But what if holding it all isn’t the goal anymore?

Maybe the anxiety isn’t because you’re failing—but because your standards were never meant to carry everything. Especially not alone. Maybe “letting go” in some areas is not weakness, but wisdom. It’s not that you don’t care—it’s that you care enough to stop burning out.

Lowering your standards isn’t lowering your worth. It’s making space to actually breathe, heal, and grow on your terms—not perfection’s.