One of our ‘mentors’ (not that she knows it) is the bestselling author, Brené Brown, who recently wrote an article about the ‘midlife unravelling’. Even the term ‘unravelling’ hit home for us. And there was an opposite sense of wanting to sit there, unravelled, open — and take the first steps towards ‘reassembling’.
This notion of rebuilding and redesigning what we’re doing and how we’re living has really caught our imaginations. It’s about choosing an intentional path — not one free of external pressures, of course, but one in which we take the time we’re given and make something we really love out of it.
We recently held a new workshop in Canberra, and it was filled with women who had reached a similar place in their lives. They felt ready for some reinvention.
Women are floundering.
Our attention is fragmented by endless online and offline demands. When we do put our feet up to relax, it’s all we can do to actually pick a TV show instead of scrolling through endless trailers and previews until we’re too tired to watch anything.
What we’d love to do is escape. For months.
We’d love to ‘find ourselves’ — maybe in Tuscany or on some remote island … Anywhere, so long as there isn’t a person tugging on our sleeves or knocking on our office doors, or phoning or messaging or emailing us wanting more than we have to give.
It would be nice to have a dedicated time and space to remember who we are, what we love, and what we really want for the next few years, instead of constantly having to think about keeping everyone else happy.
Here’s a question for you: |