Archives: Are you stuck or just still?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we hold ourselves through big change. About the necessity of the step back to step forward. Not that change doesn’t take effort, but perhaps a reframe of how we understand effort. It may look different than what we’ve previously seen or done. It may look more like a slow releasing, an unclenching, an unravelling. Sometimes it really takes backing off, sitting still, rest - actual nourishing rest (perhaps/probably a whole learning in and of itself) to not only feel what is needed but to tap into the capacity and energy to make a shift. 

I so often talk with clients about how we cannot rush the body’s timing. To do so, would actually go against the very work we are doing. Maybe it’s about feeling into the difference between stillness and stuckness. Noticing the movement that happens in the stillness because it’s there. Space to feel, space to be still, space to move, space to integrate. All held in very equal importance.

My dog Lou is my ultimate teacher when it comes to stillness, flow, presence. The animals so often know ease so well.