Headspace Studios.

Hi there, welcome to Radio Headspace. I'm Dora.

There was a season in my life when I kept looking for proof that things were working.

I wanted some kind of confirmation, something I could point to and say,

See, it's all adding up.

I was meditating every day, journaling, doing the kind of internal and external work that's supposed to lead somewhere.

But everything felt flat, like I was pedaling a bike that wasn't moving.

One morning I sat down at my altar and lit a candle,

hoping for something, clarity, direction, anything.

And instead of insight, I felt this stillness that almost bordered on discomfort. No answers, no signs, just stillness.

And for the first time, I didn't try to force my way through it.

I just sat there and paid attention to what was true.

I was in between, not stuck, just between.

And something shifted, not in my circumstances, but in how I was holding

them. Maybe this wasn't a step backward. Maybe it was in the pause before progress. Maybe this

was part of it. The invisible, unglamorous, uncelebrated part of becoming. And that was enough.

Uncertainty can often feel like you're behind,

but what if you're not?

What if this pause, this weight,

this stretch of not knowing,

isn't wasted time,

but a necessary part of becoming?

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