In 2017, a car accident changed the direction of my life. The career I'd worked toward, the future I'd pictured, and the person I thought I was becoming suddenly felt out of reach.

And while my body was recovering, there was another part of me I didn't quite know how to heal.

My sense of purpose.

For years, I struggled with the feeling that life was moving forward without me. I missed having something to work toward. Something that made me excited to get out of bed. Something that felt like me.

Maybe you know that feeling.

Maybe you've experienced a loss, an unexpected change, or simply reached a point in life where you no longer recognize the person looking back at you.

And maybe, like me, you've wondered whether it's possible to begin again.

What I've learned is that starting over doesn't always begin with some extraordinary moment. Sometimes, it begins with something surprisingly ordinary.

For me, it was a candle.

My partner loved burning candles, but with my background in holistic nutrition and my appreciation for natural ingredients, I began questioning what we were actually bringing into our home.

One question led to another. Research turned into experimentation, and eventually I began making candles of my own.

Pure essential oils. Coconut-apricot wax. Natural wooden wicks.

Ingredients chosen with intention, inspired by my belief in the quiet beauty of nature.

But something happened along the way that I hadn't expected.

I fell in love with creating again.

The measuring, the blending, the pouring. The patience of learning something new. The satisfaction of making something with my own hands.

For the first time in a long time, I felt that familiar spark of possibility.

I had something to look forward to.

And slowly, I began to recognize pieces of myself that I thought I'd lost.

That's how Linden Green Studio began.

Not because I had some grand business plan.

But because, after years of feeling lost, I finally found something that made me feel like myself again.

And somewhere along the way, I realized something I wish I'd understood sooner.

You don't have to become the person you used to be to find happiness again. Sometimes, you get to become someone entirely new.

Today, every candle I pour is a small reminder of that journey.

And while I can't promise that lighting a candle will change your life, I hope it might encourage you to take a moment for yourself.

To slow down. To breathe. To find a little beauty in an ordinary day.

Because sometimes the smallest moments are the ones that remind us we're still here, still growing, and still capable of beginning again.

Linden Green Studio

Nature, captured through scent.

Find a scent for your own everyday moments in the Prelude Edition, or explore all candles.