We are still in a global pandemic, protests are going on around the world and it also happens to be the middle of summer right now. This can lead all of us to feel like we are all in a place where maybe your priority isn’t fully on our work.
September is around the corner, which is often a time of new energy and beginnings. Like clockwork, it’s a time where for a lot of us, our guilt creeps in for not having done “enough” during the summer. It’s what I like to call a season of contraction.
If we remember that expansion always follows our times of contraction, then we can be kinder to ourselves through the phases of feeling as if we’re not doing enough. We are humans, not machines, and that means we cycle through seasons and rhythms. Summer is often a season where we feel like doing less, and that is perfectly okay.
We all go through different cycles and the better you can befriend and understand yours, the easier it is to support yourself.
When we feel like we’re in a contraction, when we feel like we haven’t been doing enough and start to panic about it we can react (vs respond) to this feeling with anxiety. We all have survival mechanisms and even though they are there to protect us, they often do us more harm than good.
When we understand that this feeling of contraction is a part of life, it allows us to respond to our anxiety with more gentleness and a knowing that if we support ourselves, the anxiety will diminish and we’ll actually have new found energy that follows.
If you want to listen to a previous episode on Survival Mechanisms and Essence, click here.
On this week’s episode, I cover:
- Why logic doesn’t apply when you hit anxiety
- Understanding your survival mechanism
- Why it’s important to build your support team
- Learning to understand your cycles of motivation
Remember that you’re doing better than you think.
Together we’ve got this.
I believe in you.
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