Pull up a seat.

This is for the one who did everything right — built the resume, showed up, and even kept going. Only to end up somewhere unexpected.

You’re somewhere between who you were and who you’re becoming. You have no clear map, and your timeline stopped making sense.

For the One Like Me is where we figure it out together.

I write personal essays, real-life reflections, and the kind of words that only come from someone still in her process. I am not writing from the other side. Some weeks, I have something to hand you. Other weeks, I am right in the question with you. Together, we are learning to trust God’s plan when the success of others makes comparison feel inevitable..

What is for you is for you. And it is in the mundane and the in-between that shapes the larger picture.

If you’re in a season of transition, career, identity, faith, or the quiet sense of something shifting, this is your seat at the table.

Here, you can build something that’s actually yours.

About me, Janae Carlee

I am a writer, speaker, and creative who wrestled with the tension of design and writing before finding a place to land. Writing was my first love. Design was the skill. I am standing at the intersection of who I was and who I am becoming, writing my way through, and inviting others along the way.

I write about identity, transitions, and the seasons nobody prepares you for. The ones where you are not who you were, and not yet who you are to become. There is no place of arrival, just a bunch of firsts and continuations building upon each other. My work lives in the tension of faith, creative courage, and the type of honesty that makes you feel less alone in the middle of it all.

I am a new mom and recovering perfectionist, nice to meet you. I am actively unlearning the idea that arrival is the goal. I am the first to tell you when certain aspects of life are hard, and sometimes I even struggle to pray. That’s just humanity talking. Deep down I know there is a Creator who never failed us, even when we feel distant, and this is the journey of uncovering. It’s the small moments we rush through that do the most work in us.

I write For the One Like Me for the woman who needs someone to sit in the uncertainty with her. Not just point the way out.

Remember, what's for you is for you. The timeline was never yours to control.