Yes, to sit still and listen. Just last night I wrote down: take a moment to pause, quiet your mind and look all around you for the inspirational moments. Thank you Kaitlin for your comforting and inspiring words.
Love your kitchen photo! So relatable. And yes, I am also tired of the list making industry when the new year unfolds. I rather need a lot quiet during the transition between the old and the new. But then many mamas rarely even get some retreat just after having given birth! I think your step stool is a fine symbol for that need to pause and to rest and to retreat even when the world around us still swirls. Blessings 🙏
Oh Kaitlin, you have given me an audible exhale this morning. I feel something major is shifting inside me and as I turn to the ways my heart and soul are asking me to show up, I feel a sense of overwhelm too. And just when I was getting a bit ahead of myself, you tell me this: "You can’t know how you’ll change and show up this year, so let your goals be as they are now, and know that things will change later." (EXHALE). Thank you as always. P.S. Your kitchen photo made me want to be right there beside you in the glory of living. I love you.
As a recovering perfectionist and goal avoider I really appreciated this. It gives me permission to have a bunch of goals and then maybe not get to them because I've changed, things change. Change is natural and that is ok. It's not going to be perfect and that is ok too. Thank you.
Kaitlin, your realness imbued with wisdom and insight is invariably what I need right in that moment. Thank you. I like lists, make them and do resolutions and aspirations, partially because I feel like I should. Even though I have spent a lifetime with a complicated relationship with should. I never make it more than a week with adhering to resolutions, and never got more than a few days as a kind giving up things for Lent. I come from a family and spent a career in vocations and work where the emphasis is invariably on what I have not gotten done And know that it has both harmed and infuriated me. I’m gentler now, with myself and those whose own rhythms lend themselves to see what is not over what is. Thank you honoring the very different way we all may journey.
Yes, to sit still and listen. Just last night I wrote down: take a moment to pause, quiet your mind and look all around you for the inspirational moments. Thank you Kaitlin for your comforting and inspiring words.
You’ve written how I feel about new year goals! 🙌🏽
Love your kitchen photo! So relatable. And yes, I am also tired of the list making industry when the new year unfolds. I rather need a lot quiet during the transition between the old and the new. But then many mamas rarely even get some retreat just after having given birth! I think your step stool is a fine symbol for that need to pause and to rest and to retreat even when the world around us still swirls. Blessings 🙏
Oh Kaitlin, you have given me an audible exhale this morning. I feel something major is shifting inside me and as I turn to the ways my heart and soul are asking me to show up, I feel a sense of overwhelm too. And just when I was getting a bit ahead of myself, you tell me this: "You can’t know how you’ll change and show up this year, so let your goals be as they are now, and know that things will change later." (EXHALE). Thank you as always. P.S. Your kitchen photo made me want to be right there beside you in the glory of living. I love you.
Really like your suggestion of goal-setting in light of the seasons instead of one huge investment in January.
As a recovering perfectionist and goal avoider I really appreciated this. It gives me permission to have a bunch of goals and then maybe not get to them because I've changed, things change. Change is natural and that is ok. It's not going to be perfect and that is ok too. Thank you.
Kaitlin, your realness imbued with wisdom and insight is invariably what I need right in that moment. Thank you. I like lists, make them and do resolutions and aspirations, partially because I feel like I should. Even though I have spent a lifetime with a complicated relationship with should. I never make it more than a week with adhering to resolutions, and never got more than a few days as a kind giving up things for Lent. I come from a family and spent a career in vocations and work where the emphasis is invariably on what I have not gotten done And know that it has both harmed and infuriated me. I’m gentler now, with myself and those whose own rhythms lend themselves to see what is not over what is. Thank you honoring the very different way we all may journey.