Personal Growth During the Winter Season
Personal growth does occur during the Winter, but it’s an inside job.
The energy of Winter, slows ----a time for the wisdom of quiet and stillness
But the energy is not frozen or stagnant.
This isn’t a time of creating change through heavy lifting, pushing, and striving, but instead a call to go within.
Time to support elements within yourself that are needing time and space to heal, to reshape your energy and focus, recalibrate your system, or maybe even time for your inner self to more deeply reveal itself to you.
Healing the Habit of People Pleasing
People pleasing. It’s like the little sister/brother of co-dependency. Not a full-blown clinical diagnosis but it still can be disruptive in our lives. Its impact can range from annoyance and irritation to depletion and exhaustion.
People pleasing is a habit. A learned pattern. At some point, (usually) in our young lives, we decided it was unsafe or unproductive to give voice to our needs, to actively follow through with compromise or full commitment in meeting our needs, to clarify our expectations to others and to continue the practice asserting our personal power with the art of saying “no”.