I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to Episode 344.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life. If you struggle with

decision fatigue, with chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the

constant stream of information and the sometimes

delightful but distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing.

I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader.

I live in North Carolina with my family, and through my work, I've helped thousands of

spiritually thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue so that they can discern their next right

thing in faith, work, and life. If you enjoy these ad-free episodes, you owe a big thanks to our

paying subscribers at the Soul Minimalist on Substack,

who make it possible for me to host this podcast without having ads.

And if you are one of the Soul Minimalists who contribute every month, I am especially grateful to you.

If you want to learn more about The Soul Minimalist on Substack, you can check out the link in the show notes. Every

week on Thursdays, we have a follow-up post to our Tuesday episodes where we continue the

conversation that we start here on the podcast. Today's question, what kind of endings are

you facing and what practices can you engage to help you as you navigate them? Listen in.

It seems to me that we are every one of us in some area of our life standing on a threshold. At that threshold

is a moment where we realize we cannot go back. Perhaps you're remembering that moment in your

own life, or maybe that moment has just come to you now. I believe that purposely finding ways to mark

our endings is vital for our own flourishing.

You can call them anything, spiritual practices, tiny rituals, marking the moment.

Personally for me, marking and ending is part of my life of faith because I believe God cares about and is present in all of my life. So when something's over,

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