Making space for doing nothing when a change is needed
Perhaps you know you want to shift how you work with clients. Or, maybe it’s become clear you’re meant to alter who you support in your work or how you're expressing your gifts in the world. Maybe you need to change something important in your relationship with a loved one - or with yourself.
You might have a sudden or dawning knowing that you need to show up differently for your creativity.
Whatever it is, when you come upon this place, the one where you recognize the whispers calling for change, I invite you to pause. The culture tells us, when you know, you do. Many of us launch straight into the doing. And sometimes, this is the right thing.
But most often, what's needed first is a fallowing—a period of doing nothing. Where your surface lies dormant and you allow the depth of the need to unfold within you, to stretch out.
Where you rest and gather strength for the new growth to come.
Even when what’s changing feels deeply right, there needs to be space for grief, for reckoning. What you’re leaving behind was right for you at one point. You grew into yourself, experienced all that that way of being had to offer. Fully embodying the need for a different way of doing or being in the world gives space for letting go.
Take some time to thank what you’re letting go of for all it’s given you, for all it has taught you.
Then lift your satchel, square your shoulders and step forward, ready to welcome what awaits.