Marie Ziebell

I didn’t wake up one day and decide to become a whole new person.

I didn’t burn it all down and rise from the ashes like a perfectly polished phoenix. There wasn’t a dramatic crash-and-burn moment. There was just…a slow, quiet knowing that I couldn’t keep living the way I was.

I’m 51 now, and after decades of performing, people-pleasing, and putting everyone else first-I’m finally choosing myself.
Not in a loud, flashy, “screw everyone” kind of way. In a soft, grounded, holy kind of way. In a ‘this is my life and I want to feel it again’ kind of way.

I call this season The Revamp.

Not a reinvention. Not a glow-up. Not a rebrand.

A revamp.

A return to who I was before the world told me how to be.
Before I learned to make myself smaller to keep the peace. Before I confused being liked with being loved. Before I measured my worth by how selfless I could be.

This blog is part of that return.

A space to write, process, remember and tell the truth out loud.
Not because I have it all figured out-but because I don’t. Because I’m in it. Living it. Unlearning it.

And I know I’m not the only one.

If you’ve been feeling the nudge to start over…to live softer, wilder, more YOU…If you’re somewhere in the messy middle and wondering, “is this it?”.
This space is for you.

You’re not too late.
You’re not too much.
You’re not alone.

This isn’t a reinvention.
It’s a return.

Welcome home.

-Marie