https://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/26/grow-as-we-go/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/grow-as-we-go-honestly-sandie.pnggrow as we go honestly sandieWhat are the actual odds that the exact week I realize Tuesday marks 144 weeks since leaving, life seats me next to a physicist talking about shaping, patterns, force, motion, and what happens to things over time? Physics, from my deeply unqualified understanding, is basically the study of what happens when things are acted upon. Pressure. Energy. Cause and effect. Which felt annoyingly relevant. Because what if life is not random? What if betrayal shaped you. Silence shaped you. Joy shaped you. Grief shaped you. What if enough time passes and life quietly hands you mirrors at the exact moment you need to see yourself again?2026-05-26T03:08:06+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/about/2026-05-24T17:09:36+00:00weekly0.6https://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/22/colorblind/2026-05-25T21:08:06+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/21/100-years/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_8110.jpgA quiet unraveling begins in Day 5 of Exposure as Sandie reflects on the first signs something was changing inside the place she loved most and the question that would not leave her alone.2026-05-24T07:18:55+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/20/dog-days-are-over/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/honestly-sandie-05202026-the-thread-.pnghonestly sandie 05202026 the thread2026-05-25T02:17:12+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/25/yellow/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/yellow-honestly-sandie.pngyellow honestly sandieJuly was blurry. Kitchen cabinets came apart. So did parts of me. I stepped away from roles I thought defined me, sat in someone’s living room crying over things I still could not explain, kept writing uncomfortable thoughts into my notes app, and somehow still boarded a mission trip while quietly wondering what exactly I was grieving. Then I went back one last time. Same building. Same songs. Nothing felt the same. Day 9 of *Exposure* is up. This one feels softer. Stranger. Like grief sitting quietly beside memory. 2026-05-24T06:42:19+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/24/its-time-to-go/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/its-time-to-go-honestly-sandie.pngits time to go honestly sandie2026-05-24T23:27:40+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/23/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world/2026-05-22T23:42:16+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/19/november-rain/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/november-rain.pngnovember rain2026-05-19T14:34:43+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/15/uninvited/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/uninvited-honsetly-sandie.pnguninvited honsetly Sandie2026-05-18T07:47:22+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/16/no-rain/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/no-rain-honestly-sandie-.pngno rain honestly sandie2026-05-18T07:46:18+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/18/mirrorball/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mirrorball-pick-me-choos-me-love-me.-honestly-sandie-exposure-part-2.pngmirrorball pick me choos me love me. honestly sandie exposure part 2The school thought we were there to talk about feelings. I thought I was there to help the other kids. Funny how long it can take to realize you were the child people were worried about too.2026-05-18T07:37:07+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/17/ribs/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/big-sandie-little-sandie-ribs.pngbig sandie little sandie Ribsspent most of my life thinking childhood was just something you survived and joked about later. What I didn’t realize was that little versions of us are still sitting quietly in the backseat somewhere, holding memories we weren’t old enough to understand yet. This photo wrecked me a little. Because the older I get, the more compassion I have for the little girl who learned to read emotional weather before she learned long division. PART ONE of EXPOSURE: A Life Slowly Coming Into Focus is live now. It starts with an ice cream sandwich thrown through a stranger’s car window in late 80s Southern California and somehow turns into a story about hyper-awareness, survival, and the strange things children carry without realizing it. And honestly? I think this may be the most important thing I’ve written yet.https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/rib-big-sandie-little-snadie.pngrib big sandie little snadiehttps://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/exposure-the-ice-cream-window.pngExposure - the ice cream window2026-05-17T18:47:07+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/subscribe/2026-05-16T23:30:41+00:00weekly0.6https://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/14/eyes-closed/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/honestly-sandie-threshold-thursday-eyes-closed-may-14.pnghonestly sandie threshold thursday eyes closed may 14https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/eyes-closed-honestly-sandie-threshold-thursday-.pngeyes closed honestly sandie threshold thursday2026-05-14T06:53:43+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/13/vampire/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/april-27-2021-honestly-sandie-wildcard-wednesday-2026.pngapril 27 2021 honestly sandie wildcard wednesday 2026You weren’t just helping. You were building the Kingdom. You weren’t tired. You were called. And if you’re a certain type of woman? Oh, you THRIVE in environments like that at first. Give us a mission. Give us a color coded volunteer spreadsheet. Tell us we’re changing lives. We’ll accidentally develop stress induced jaw tension while calling it purpose.”2026-05-13T14:40:13+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/12/fire-in-these-hills/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/fire-in-these-hills-honestly-sandie-.pngfire in these hills honestly sandieFunny how the body eventually tells the truth the mouth keeps trying to spiritualize.2026-05-12T05:29:22+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/11/running-up-that-hill/2026-05-13T00:09:09+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/10/labour/2026-05-10T16:51:19+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/09/this-must-be-the-place/2026-05-10T13:16:49+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/08/fixing-a-hole/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/freewill-friday-fixing-a-hole-honestly-sandie-.pngFreewill friday fixing a hole honestly sandie2026-05-08T06:10:04+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2025/10/19/fix-you/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img_4813.jpegIMG_4813https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/82e2c-pexels-jeshoots-271458.jpgPlaceholder Image2026-05-07T04:05:17+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/07/the-joke/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/threshold-thursday-honestly-sandie-the-joke.pngThreshold Thursday Honestly Sandie The joke2026-05-07T04:04:52+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/06/shake-it-out/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/honestly-sandie-wildcard-wednesday-5.5.26.pngHOnestly sandie Wildcard Wednesday 5.5.262026-05-06T16:58:14+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/02/unwritten/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/sandie-unwritten-may-2.pngSandie Unwritten May 22026-05-05T03:36:05+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/03/machine/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/honestly-sandie-machine-may-3-2026-blog-post-church-thoughts-no-service-required.pngHonestly Sandie - Machine May 3 2026 blog post church thoughts no service requiredSomewhere between who I was and who I’m becoming, I stopped asking for directions and started trusting my own steps. This is what that looks like.2026-05-05T03:14:03+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/05/praying/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/praying-honestly-sandie-truth-telling-tuesdays-praying-.pngPraying Honestly Sandie Truth Telling Tuesdays Praying2026-05-05T03:13:38+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2026/05/04/the-archer/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/honestly-sandie-may-4-2026-the-archer.pngHonestly Sandie May 4 2026 The ARcherhttps://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chatgpt-image-may-3-2026-07_31_49-pm.pngChatGPT Image May 3, 2026, 07_31_49 PM2026-05-04T05:25:26+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2025/10/20/landslide/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img_4244.jpegIMG_42442025-11-22T16:03:58+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.com/2025/10/19/welcome-to-honestly-sandie/https://honestlysandie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img_2991.jpegIMG_29912025-10-20T02:00:34+00:00monthlyhttps://honestlysandie.comdaily1.02026-05-26T03:08:06+00:00