What is your new normal? Welcome to your invitation

I rarely finish books.

Sometimes, I’ll read the first ten lines, or pages, or chapters. Sometimes, the book sits patiently on my shelf, and I feel better just knowing it’s there. Like somehow, even if it's only the title I read, I'll be delivered the exact message I need at the exact time I'm ready to hear it — and listen.

I don’t know whether we are in the first few lines of our current reality’s happenings or nearing the conclusion. I don’t know what point in this story we will be rewarded with the gained wisdom and insight that brought us to it in the first place.

What I do know is that there is no ‘normal’ to return to, but we can determine what parts of ‘normal’ we want to invite back into our lives.

Maybe your old normal looked like...

Being unwilling to create boundaries around your time, energy, and heart.

Committing without feeling a full-body ‘yes’ behind your decisions.

Pleasing for the sake of avoiding what you want.

Placing your self-worth on relationships (or lack thereof).

Measuring your value against how much you can produce.

Burning out and seeing this as a sign that there is something wrong with you rather than the system we play a part in.

Hanging onto what no longer serves you because you're afraid of change.

What if your new normal could look different?

What if you could slow down — pause —  to gain the medicine of your current reality, and understand what you want?

And if slowing down doesn’t feel like the way right now, what if you could give yourself permission to speed up? Build momentum in the areas in your life you’ve been curious about?

And if neither speeding up nor slowing down feels like the way right now, what if you could just let yourself be?

Whether we’re in the first ten lines or nearing the conclusion of today’s story, consider your new normal — what does it look like?

Welcome to your invitation.