Today’s message is about knowing and honoring the current season of life you’re in, and using some helpful reminders as needed.

What season of life are you finding yourself in? You can choose to look at different areas of your life, or as an overall sense where do you find yourself today? 

• Stage 1: Beginning a new chapter? 
• Stage 2: In your flow, feeling settled and finally in a groove? 
• Stage 3: Starting to feel off? Something is on the verge of shifting or ending but you’re not quite there yet? 
• Stage 4: You’ve gained some clarity about what you want, now it’s time to take the next steps.
• Stage 5: Are you transitioning? Not quite sure what’s ahead, but you’re on your way to something new.

*think of these like a circle. Expect to move around this as you evolve. 

Example: I’ll give you a quick breakdown of my last two years how these phases have played out. I’m starting at stage 3. I started to feel something was missing. I didn’t know what that was, but I wasn’t quite getting the same fulfillment from what used to bring me so much inspiration, clarity and ease. Stage 4. I started to think I’m ready for a spiritual shift. I’m really ready for something more. I don’t have all the answers, but I have clarity that I’m ready to let go of what was and say yes to something new. Stage 5.  I thought that it was either a big move, taking some time to write and travel or having a child. I didn’t know the how for any of it. I didn’t have a plan. I just took a lot of time in meditation and being in my parasympathetic nervous system so I could say yes to what was to come. Stage 1: everything came together in a moment and I got clarity, I want a child. I got pregnant that night and began a new chapter. Stage 2: About 6 months postpartum I finally felt settled. Stage 3: Now at 20 months, I’m feeling ‘off’ again and ready to evolve again. 

As I enter this new phase of embracing something new and reorganization, I’m reminding myself of a few key principles daily to help me. 

How can you fully embrace the chapter you’re in? 

What is it requiring of you? 

Trust. Discipline. Ease. Awareness. Stillness. Movement. Prioritization. ?? 

If you’re like me, maybe you too are in a season of calling in more for your life. 

Maybe you’re closing a chapter of settling and playing smaller than you’d like. 

Maybe you finally have the certainty and courage to say no to what no longer serves you.

Maybe you’re done lacking the self-care that truly helps you to thrive. 

I’m moving into a new season that’s reminded me, invited me and required me to turn towards all the tools I’ve spent over a decade building. 

I’m so grateful to have a practice to return to over and over again and nothing is more inspiring for me that sharing what works for me and helping people find their own authentic voice and connection. 

Even with limited time, I see the progress that can be made in just a few minutes a few times a day. 

Here are some reminders that are helping me in this season. 

1. Your energy shifts when you decide to be fully yourself. No longer settling for inconsistency, getting stuck in overwhelm or depression or saying no to what you know helps you come alive. Often it means being willing to be uncomfortable. Challenging you to say what’s on your mind in an effective way. It also requires you to have the discipline for new rituals (or re-establishing old ones) 

There’s a repeatable formula to your most connected self that allows you to breakthrough and create a new reality.

2. Strength comes from being gentle and loving with yourself. Strength through force is outdated and leads to burnout and often a lack of alignment. My daughter is now starting to follow and repeat everything I do which definitely helps me reflect on how I look at and treat my body and I deal with feeling overwhelmed. With or without a child nearby, your body and spirit are listening to what you’re saying, what you believe and how you treat yourself. Remember, the shift is just a perception away even when you may feel lost or out of control.

3. Consistency matters. While I believe in leaving room to listen to your body, I also believe in showing up for yourself. Nothing feels better than knowing I’m going to move my body each day. Some days may be a bit more intense, some may be gentle stretches and kundalini meditations that help me move energy while quietly building physical, mental and energetic strength. I know the days I allow myself to “stay comfortable”, the truth is I’m anything but comfortable. I’m uncomfortable being the version of me that’s lethargic and depressed. In my 20’s I didn’t know how to be anything else, now I can catch the patterns before they take shape. It is nothing more than a handful of perceptions that need to be addressed one at a time so you can find and feel yourself again with love.

4. Judgment doesn’t get you where you want to go. Whether that’s judging yourself or others. You can’t heal or shift from invalidation. You shift from honoring who you are and where you are. With that knowledge of how it’s served you and how you chose to be where you are, you are now in an empowered place. You can choose and see the benefits and new challenges that will come from a new version of yourself and eventually that becomes so much more inviting than where you are. 

5. Know where you want to be. You may not have all the fine details worked out, but you know the general direction. Without a vision it’s easy to feel purposeless. Remember, it’s your small daily actions built up that produce big results. In each area of your life, have a vision. A realistic vision and a strategy for the larger goals so you can trust yourself along the way to move forward. When we get overwhelmed with so many possibilities it can be paralyzing. Keep the movement but being willing to stay focused. 

Love to hear from you. What’s helpful, what resonated from today’s find your flow message? 

Anything you’d like to see more of, or could use support with? 

Lots of love.

Laurin