Frequently throughout your journey of healing and transformation there will be periods of time where you feel like you are not moving. Everything feels stagnant.
I’ve often found myself in that place during my healing journey that I like to call the void. I call that because it’s super uncomfortable to be there and nothing is really moving. It almost feels like a stagnant pond rather than a river or a creek.
When it’s happened in the past I’ve found myself really itching to get out of that place and continue moving forward. But now that I am aware of it, when it happens I challenge myself to make peace with the discomfort because I know that it is trying to teach me how to sit still in that period of pause with whatever feelings I have.
Sitting in the void, without giving into the urge to push things forward, challenges me to increase my tolerance for that particular type of discomfort because even that is helping me to grow.
When I get to those places, I don’t try to shove myself back into the river. I don’t try to manufacture this movement within my life that may or may not need to happen. I sit with it and trust that I am there for a reason, that there is something I need to get out of that experience, and when the time is right, the river will open back up allowing me to flow forward. I don’t need to force it.
Those moments of pause are a necessary part of your journey.
Take a breath, allow yourself to sit with the discomfort this moment is making you feel, have compassion for yourself. For where you've been and where you are right now. Trust that this also is a part of that process. And when you get to that place where your momentum has slowed down and it feels like you are not moving, it is because you're in one of those moments where your bow is being pulled back, you're dialing in on your target, you’re centering yourself, and you are just about to be shot forward into your future.
In the meantime take advantage of that moment of pause to apply the lessons you have learned, determine what things you need to bring with you on the next phase of your journey and what needs to be left behind, soak in the progress you have achieved and express your gratitude for all of the lessons and experiences that got you to where you're at today.
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