November 3, 2025

by Wendy Lee

It feels like time to turn the searchlight back on. 

When I first started Personal Searchlight, it was simply a forum for sharing my writing, musings, and growth journey with my friends and family.  Over the years, life has shifted in ways I couldn’t have imagined.  There have been seasons of challenge, healing, and gradual rediscovery of myself.  Somewhere in all of it, my blog grew quiet.  I did too.

But lately, something inside me has been asking to write again — not from perfection or expertise, but from truth. To share what it really means to walk through the darker corners of life and still look for meaning, peace, and hope.

This new chapter of Personal Searchlight will focus on that search.

It will be about mental wellness, self-compassion, personal growth, and the quiet power of not being alone. You’ll find essays, reflections, quotes, and resources that have helped me — podcasts, TED Talks, CBT tips, even bits of beauty from daily life. My hope is that something here will help you feel seen, or maybe just a little steadier on your own path.

The world can feel noisy and heavy. But I believe there’s still light to be found — not just in triumphs or transformations, but in small, ordinary moments of clarity. So, this is where I’ll start again: one post at a time, following the beam of whatever light shows up next.

Thank you for being here, for reading, and for walking beside me as Personal Searchlight begins to shine again.