26 Jan Pausing with a “Plan Be”
Raise your hand if you have a plan, or plans for how your life should look right now. Or perhaps as it is still January you have a new idea...
Sabbatical
19 Jan Listen to natural pause rhythms
Has this month been hard? Do you feel like you just want to crawl into bed and ignore life? Me too! January always seems hard. The darkness and winter make me...
12 Jan What is a sabbatical mindset?
We have been talking a lot about taking conscious pauses / sabbaticals in our blogs (obviously). In this one, we are going to shift the focus just a little, to...
05 Jan What is Time – a commodity or a gift?
As we arrive into a new year, I often think about the passage of time. A couple of weeks ago, I was doing my practice of morning pages. It had...
21 Dec Winter solstice and a pause
As we approach the mid-point of winter in the Northern hemisphere, known as Winter Solstice I am curious about how others spend the day with the shortest amount of sunlight....
10 Nov Solitude vs loneliness
Another chapter, another adventure, another shift in life. I have left my corporate job and am transitioning into something new, both personally and professionally. Part of this shift is (re)creating space to...
06 Oct Thresholds towards change
As part of our sabbatical guiding practice, we put emphasis on the start of the sabbatical or pause. To intentionally carve out space and time to mark the step from...
22 Sep Lessons from a Sabbatical – Part 2
Learning is good for your mind, body and soul. But do you ever feel like you are learning the same lessons over and over again? That was the case with...
08 Sep Lessons from a Sabbatical – Part 1
Even though we are advocates for taking a sabbatical or even just pausing, it can still be ridiculously hard to take our own advice. This summer, I navigated a “slow-down-ish-ness”...
18 Aug Using a pause to focus
I recently had to get progressive lens for my glasses which is part of accumulating years in this life. The focus and ability to read books and my phone without...