Coming Back to My Own Bloom
- Jodie Chandler
- Sep 17
- 2 min read
The other morning, as I wandered through the flower field at Karuah Blooms, I found myself reflecting on how often we chase someone else’s vision instead of tending to our own.
When I first began dreaming of growing flowers — not just for myself, but for women to gather, to journal, to create — I thought I had to do it like the “big flower farms.”
You know the ones: rows upon rows of perfection, petals poised just so, systems that run like clockwork.
I admired them, and for a while, I tried to shape my little field into their mold.
But here’s the thing: the more I imitated, the less it felt like mine.
The magic only returned when I circled back to my original idea — the one that had been tucked inside my heart all along.
Not a carbon copy of what’s trending online.
Not a Pinterest board of cottagecore perfection.
Just me, growing blooms in my own flower field, for real people, in my own way.
And isn’t that the way it so often goes in business, too?
We scroll.
We compare.
We screenshot and save, thinking “this is how I should do it.”
We tweak our offers, fonts, captions, and calendars — all in the name of “getting it right.”
But what if “right” was never out there to begin with?
What if it’s in the messy notes in your journal?
Or in that vision board you made when you first whispered your dream into being?
Just the other day, while rummaging in my art studio storeroom for a canvas, I found a vision board I had made seven years ago.
I stopped in my tracks as I looked at it.
There it was — images of gatherings in nature, flower fields, women creating together, soulful journaling… and here I am, standing in the very dream I once glued to that board.
I hadn’t even realized how many of those seeds had quietly sprouted and bloomed in my life until I held that vision board again.
That’s the power of visioning: it bypasses the noise of “shoulds” and taps straight into the truth of your heart and soul.
When you create from that deep place, life has a way of catching up to your vision — sometimes without you even noticing.
My flower field doesn’t look like the big farms, and it never will.
It isn’t supposed to.
It’s uniquely mine.
Just as your business is uniquely yours.
And sometimes, the only way to discover what works is to try.
Experiment. Say, “actually no, I don’t love this,” and start again.
That’s not failure — that’s feedback.
That’s growth.
So if you’ve been lost in comparison, measuring your wild beginnings against someone else’s polished petals, here’s your reminder:
🌸 Try things.
🌸 Keep what works.
🌸 Let go of what doesn’t.
🌸 And always, always come back home to yourself.
Because your way will always be the best way — even if it takes a few seasons to believe it.
If this resonates, come join me for Petals & Pages in the flower field — where we create vision boards, journal, and celebrate the magic of bringing heart-and-soul dreams to life.
Together we’ll water those inner seeds and watch them bloom.
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