Rediscovering Yourself in a World Obsessed with “More”
- Maria Johansson

- May 26
- 2 min read
Have you ever felt like you were running a race with no finish line? Chasing one milestone after another—the promotion, the praise, the next shiny promise of happiness? You climb higher and higher, hoping that somewhere up there, you’ll finally feel whole. Loved. Enough.
I know that chase. I lived it.
The luxury handbags, the business cards with impressive titles, the curated version of success—they all whispered the same thing: This will finally make you feel better. But no matter how far I ran, the emptiness kept pace. Quiet. Unrelenting.
It wasn’t until I finally paused—really paused—and turned inward, that I heard the truth: No amount of hustle or applause could fill the ache of disconnection I carried inside. I didn’t need more. I needed me.
If you’ve felt that same hollow ache—that longing for something deeper beneath the striving—I want you to know this: you’re not broken. You’re not behind. And you are most certainly not alone.
Because the truth is, the world has taught us to look outward for answers. To equate busyness with worth, productivity with value, and success with belonging. But what if the very thing you’ve been searching for has been within you all along?
What if you are already enough?
What if the wholeness you’ve been chasing doesn’t come from achieving more—but from remembering who you are underneath the noise? The you that existed before the conditioning. Before the proving. Before the performance.
At Zest & Mojo, we believe that healing begins when you stop trying to become someone, and start coming home to yourself.
This is your invitation to pause. To breathe. To step off the treadmill of “not enough” and return to a truth that lives inside you: You are worthy. You are lovable. You belong—not because of what you achieve, but because of who you are.
And here’s the beautiful paradox: the more you root into self-acceptance, the more the rest of life begins to flow. The success, the ease, the peace—they find you. Not because you pushed harder, but because you softened. Because you stopped abandoning yourself and chose to belong to yourself instead.
You don’t need to fix yourself. You just need to find yourself again.
If you’re ready to stop running and start reclaiming, Zest & Mojo is here to walk beside you. Because this journey isn’t about chasing more—it’s about becoming whole.
You deserve that. You’ve always deserved that.
And now, it’s time.



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