Pressing Pause
November can be a hard month for many of us. It's getting darker and darker. It feels bleak. Our to-do list is getting longer and longer - an obstacle between us and any joy or rest. And at the same time, it's an excellent opportunity to give ourselves permission to pause - to press pause on our lives. I’m not talking about huge pauses here – those are great and necessary too – but I want to focus on the “small but mighty pause” that we can make happen daily – even just in the time it takes us to sip a warming and comforting cup of tea or coffee while we do so.
The beauty of pressing pause is that you make room for a meaningful and compassionate conversation with yourself - time for empowered reflection. You know how we tend to pass people and say, “How are you?” automatically then they say “Fine, thanks” automatically? It’s a friendly but relatively meaningless exchange. Rarely are people actually honest about what is really going on for them. True, it may not be the time or place for a meaningful conversation with that other person. But, for many of us, we repeatedly have this kind of automatic and relatively meaningless conversation with ourselves - or no conversation at all.
It’s so important to create a time and a place for regular meaningful and compassionate conversations with ourselves. Conversations where we don’t just skip over what we are feeling and needing with the old answer “I’m fine, thanks” when we are so "Not Fine". Now, this kind of conversation may not come naturally to you. It did not to me. Many women, especially smart women, skip over this kind of conversation, as I did, partly because they haven’t been taught how to have it. And partly because they don’t even think that they are part of the equation – "How I feel matters here? Really? Don’t I just have to get on with things and care for others?"
What's the pay-off in pressing pause? It's the first step in gathering the awareness and the courage to create a life that you love living.
Come join Dea Bozzo, our guest Facilitator (bio on Circle page) and other brilliant women on Thursday for the Feminine Power Women’s Circle where she will be sharing a favourite practice for pressing pause so you can have that meaningful conversation with yourself - be honest about how you are. You will practice it together.
Take the time, Make Room For You, this Thursday November 21 to practice pressing pause. I predict you will be so grateful to yourself for doing so and you will have more energy to prioritize and tackle the "must-do" items on your to-do list and find easier access to that joy and rest that we all crave.
