Embracing Uncertainty and Leaning Into Change
"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have titles until much later." -Bob Goff
This week our classes will focus on embracing uncertainty and leaning into transitions.
I'm coming into your mailbox a day later than usual, as I took the weekend to be with my family. I hope you all had a good weekend as well.
The school year is wrapping up in my house. Two of my kiddos have their last day today and two more will finish next week. I’m reflecting today on the feelings that come with change and transitions. I looked back at an email I had sent to you all a few summers past and the words still seemed fitting, so I’m sharing them with you again today.
As the school year wraps up and we're changing seasons into summer, many of us are looking at a change to our routines. Change is exciting and challenging at the same time. Our yoga practice helps us to take the time to process these feelings through our breath and meditation and move the feelings through the body through our poses. Yoga helps us be flexible in more than just body; it helps us be flexible with our mindset too.
I've been noticing as I'm getting ready for summer and making plans, I'm feeling mixed emotions. I'm so excited to have fun plans on the calendar and also apprehensive about having the kids home all summer. How are you feeling about the transition to a new season? Can you lean into whatever you’re feeling, positive or negative, and find some time to just notice how you're feeling?
My son and I chatted about these feelings this morning. On the way to his last day, he said, “I’m feeling both things, mom. I’m feeling excited and sad. I’m happy for summer and sad it’s my last day in my class.” So I’m working to take my own advice and let myself be in all the emotions. I told him, “Thanks for telling me that. Let yourself feel both things. That is great that you noticed how you’re feeling.”
Do you notice that we often give our kids, friends, partners, or co-workers understanding when they're working through emotions, but we don't always give ourselves that same space?
