04 May Are you too busy to pause?
We fill our time and days with busyness, then make excuses for being too busy to slow down. Are you too busy to pause? In this blog, we are asking for some...
Conscious Pause Tag
27 Apr Sabbatical-themed articles
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” — Claude Bernard Curated articles about Sabbatical mindsets I thought I would try something different this week for the blog. I have...
20 Apr Did you know – sabbatical edition
"Gratitude plants little smiley faces on everything it touches" - Richelle E. Goodrich Hello to all our new subscribers, thank you so very much for being here. And appreciation out to...
13 Apr Live the questions
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very...
06 Apr Get out of your head and into your pause
So, I have been thinking about thinking. And sometimes I think too much as do a lot of us. All the possible scenarios for any decision or replaying a past...
30 Mar Sabbatical as liminal space
Recently, I was introduced to the podcast “Quitted” and the episode on endings. The hosts shared why they wanted to do a podcast on quitting or why to explore endings....
23 Mar Understand your busyness
It can be difficult to find ways to slow down and reset when you’re in a fast-paced environment that constantly asks you to be on the go. Like many of you,...
16 Mar Taking the first step
This week's blog is a bit different. A reflection on a poem! Start Close In by David Whyte Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t...
09 Mar Truth is sometimes we need to pause
Are you aware of what emotion(s) come up for you when you take time for yourself? Might it be guilt? Is that a hard question to answer/face? The truth is I...
02 Mar It’s time for recess – go play!
When was the last time you had real fun? Last year, as we were curating their sabbatical, I asked a client what they did for fun. They couldn't remember the last...