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| | | A Note from Emma ...
Last week, I sat in the car in the garage after dropping my son at school and stared at the packing boxes stacked around me, for twenty minutes. I felt like I could have sat there until it was time for school pick-up — a combination of overwhelm at the task of moving house in the next few months, and grief, and more overwhelm, and general flatness.
Coincidentally, someone shared a Facebook memory of a post I’d written a few years ago about what to do if you’re not ‘feeling it’. Apparently I’d encouraged people to emulate a person who could be bothered — the way they’d sit, and breathe, and walk, and talk.
I’ve been going for daily walks because it’s so great for creativity and mood, and I knew a person who was ‘feeling it’ would do that. Get out of the car, get the headphones and walk five kilometres. So that’s what I did.
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| This time I walked in the bush behind the houses in my suburb, somewhere I hadn’t been before. It was pretty magical, and I took the headphones out and listened to the soundtrack of the birds instead.
Along the way, I found something that stopped me in my tracks. A tiny tree, nestled in the protection of a fallen eucalyptus, surrounded by the muted tones of grey and green — bursting in autumn colour.
It didn’t belong where it had ended up. It wasn’t supposed to bloom there. It didn’t fit in. But rather than shrink and shrivel and die, it lit itself up, the only way it knew how.
This little, out-of-place tree became a symbol for me of ‘blooming where I am planted’. Of reinvention and growth. It was a reminder that things around me might be bleak, but within me there is fire and colour and hope.
It’s this sort of reinvention that we’ll be talking about at our workshop, 'Who do you want to be when you grow up?’ on Wednesday night in Canberra. It’s reinvention within the context of a life that might be messy or muted, even when you feel out of place or like you don’t exactly belong where you’ve ended up.
There are only three places left at the workshop, and we’d love to see you there.
Registration info is here. |
| | Audrey & Emma x
PS We're excited to be sharing loads of new content in this workshop, some of which has only ever been shared with our private clients and members of The Reinvention Project (our year-long group coaching program). We'd love to see you there! Check it out here.
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