As your age climbs, your home vacates, you lose your job, you are ill, or you divorce, do you feel unseen?
A mom called telling me she feels like a fog covers her. I asked her, after chatting awhile, what is the gift of a fog covering you? Immediately she said, “I can be ok with doing nothing.”
I think we forget that in emptiness or a veil of fog, we need to give ourselves PERMISSION to not push ahead, to not fill the silence or the unknown with doing. We are so use to jumping to the force that says, re-invent yourself now, lose the weight, start dating, change jobs, move, volunteer, get over that hurt, or do something by changing your perspective if you feel invisible.
There is a gift for you in an empty space. Not only more room or possibilities to come , but space to simply let thoughts and feelings float. TRUST. Life that was may be shifting and that doesn’t mean you have no life.
When I am stuck, I journal without stopping to correct spelling or see if what I am writing is profound. I write to connect with ME. I write to invite a surprise on the page.
Like an empty nest, your life fills and vacates with the roots of unique you. TRUST. You will not be forgotten nor ignored. There is a gift in the unseen. What might that gift be for you today? The gift of the fog today is…….. The gift of my empty nest is………… simply write …turn on some music if you like writing to music.
Take good care,
Natalie
818-763-0188 Los Angeles, Ca.
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org
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