EP 145 TAKE A VACATION FROM YOUR PROBLEMS

⚔️Tired of all the problem solving side quests?

Are you overwhelmed with all this incessant obsessing and fixing and trying to be some other, better version of yourself? Does it ever feel like wellness and spirituality culture are just new cute ways to torture yourself for once again not being perfect or how you ‘SHOULD’ be? Take a vacation from your problems!

Do you ever want to take a big black Sharpie and walk into the place where they decide the words of the English language and redact “healing” and “journey” forevermore from all dictionaries? (I don’t know who “they” are… Merriam-Webster? Oxford?!? I’m coming for you!)

OMG SAME. I am hearing this over and over from my clients. Everyone is exhausted, burned out, on edge, and being jerks. (Not you. People are being jerks to you. 👀 Looking at you, angry Trader Joe’s cheese lady.)

How is doing more and trying harder working out? When does it get easier?

It’s almost like we can’t stop picking at ourselves long enough for the wounds to heal.

So a couple weeks ago inside my NEST Group Integration Membership, I issued a challenge to the group: Take a vacation from your problems.

Over the next week, there were so many big breakthroughs, insights, and Aha! moments that came through for multiple Nesties.

Why? Because stopping the forward motion allows space. And space allows things to rise into your awareness. Where you can witness it with compassion, and identify your patterns, coping mechanisms, and limiting beliefs so you can take small, inspired actions.

The truth is, you can’t always be excavating, solving, examining, sifting, analyzing, and trying to “figure things out.” All of those actions are rooted firmly in mental energy. Almost always, more mental energy is not what you need to actually heal. You need nervous system regulation. You need emotional safety. You need movement and release. You need FUN.

There is always a time for descent. But you can’t always be in the energy of fixing and unearthing. We live in the time of so much information being at our fingertips, and it’s actually making us sicker, more disconnected, and exhausted.

Healing is receptive. Passive. It’s what happens under the surface and behind the scenes when you are in a calm, regulated state. It’s the state of allowing. Of softening. Of putting down the impulse to take on yet another side quest, and focus on doing less.

Integration is wholeness. Calmness. Peace. It is what happens in the space between.

This week on the show, join me in taking a vacation from your problems. Give yourself unconditional permission to set aside the identity of “spiritual seeker” and try on “present human being” instead.

Love, 

Sinclair