17 Nov Your Own Permission to Pause
In October, I took a week off and was feeling pretty proud of myself that I was taking a “pause” from my full-time job. What I didn’t recognize is that...
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” - Anais Nin
03 Nov Permission from Others to Pause
This month, we are exploring the theme of “Permission” and its role in our ability and intention in living our authentic lives especially around taking sabbaticals or regular pauses in...
21 Oct Fears, perspective and conscious pausing
In our last blog, we started talking about fears and how they might show up when considering taking a pause or sabbatical. We'd like to continue the theme of fears and...
06 Oct Fears and Conscious Pausing
How familiar are you with the voice inside your head…you know, the one that makes you hesitate? Or talks you out of certain experiences completely? Since starting this work on sabbaticals and...
29 Sep Introducing new Sabbatical blogs
Hello Sabbatical friends, Are you ready for a change of pace? For those of you following Conscious Pause for the past year, you know that we have been blogging about our experiences,...
01 Sep Thank you! Celebrating our 1st year
We cannot believe that we launched Conscious Pause one year ago and what a year it has been! During our reflections on the past year, we recognized how much we learned...
14 Aug Practicing what we preach: Sabbatical
We are coming up to our one year anniversary of blogging with Conscious Pause. Thank you to everyone in our community for reading and responding. For the past year, we...
11 Aug Guest Post: The Great Global Pause
Over the next couple posts, we have invited some friends of ours to share their thoughts on taking a pause. Our second guest blogger is Dr. Michael Lickers. Mike is an...
01 Aug Pause for thought: Dive into the poetry of David Whyte
“You always meet the new you in the form of a stranger.”—David Whyte For our loyal readers, it will not come as a surprise of our affection for the poet David...
28 Jul Guest Post: Jay’s Conscious Pause Approach
Over the next couple posts, we have invited some friends of ours to share their thoughts on taking a pause. First up is Jay MacGillivray. Jay is a curious person with...