Between Skins

When the old no longer fits and the new isn’t there yet.

I feel like I’ve grown as much as I can in my current snake skin, it’s hot, summer has arrived, and it’s time to shed, to evolve into the next thing.

The only problem is I don’t know what that thing is.

For a while I kept calling it stuck, stagnant, heavy, it felt negative, but today I realised there’s another way to see it, this isn’t a dead end, it’s a growing period, a skin-shedding, and everything can only take as long as it takes to grow.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got from a mentor was simple, try things you don’t normally try, take a workshop, travel, meet new people, shake yourself up, I’ve been doing that, but somewhere along the way I slipped in an expectation, that one of those things would be it, the answer, the light bulb moment that tells me where I’m going and why I felt stagnant.

What I see now is that I was waiting to be saved, saved from my own inability to connect to my purpose, I kept looking out instead of in, trying to add instead of alchemise what’s already here with what’s still arriving.

This is where I am right now.

I’m writing this to remind us both, growth doesn’t come on call, it’s a process, a stitching together of all the things we try, the ones that don’t land, the ones that crack something open

It’s a practice in patience while still doing the work, in listening for what’s actually alive, and in trusting that the shape of the work will reveal itself when it’s ready.

Every season has its own turning

Turning the spotlight onto you my friends, what season are you in right now, what skin are you starting to outgrow, and what are you noticing underneath it? Share with me.

Always with love,

Tahl

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