What are you over consuming?

Anyone else out there taking in more than you can digest?

Periodically I find myself in a loop of consuming personal development books, reading about relationships, business productivity, emotional processing (or, ahem, scones, cookies and ice cream), anything that targets a hole that needs to be filled.

This leads to taking classes. How to improve Instagram, find your passion, write with purpose, love yourself more deeply.

Yes! That's what I need! Give me more, more, more!

When overwhelm and anxiety levels reach 11, I feel the cracking. No, no, no I'm trying to fill holes! Not make more!

Awareness seeps in through those cracks. I’m consuming but not taking in nutrition or fuel.

Can you relate?

I'm a self-defined motivated, self starter, but something gets out of whack and I get stuck in a loop of consumption. No digestion. No integration. No action other than more consumption.

I quell some compulsion to DO but don’t follow through with intent. There’s grasping but no alignment or engagement.

When these consumption cycles become conscious (and they’re tricky to catch because they almost feel productive), I realize I'm actually stuck and spinning in place.

So I reach for coaching.

Coaching gets me back into focused action. A good coach roots me in my soul so I'm taking action in ways that are surprising yet feed my growth.

I learned this at a young age when I had dance coaches and teachers in high school and a track coach. They pulled performances and abilities out of me that I didn’t know were there. I had the interest, but they helped focus that energy by uncovering my spark, my drive and motivation.

That's the type of coach I aim to be. That's why I'm a coach and a teacher. That's why I hold group sessions like Recalibrate. They are a mixture of teaching and coaching, and you do the work right in the session in an intimate setting. No putting it off on a To Do list.

I set these sessions up so I’m right there with you also doing the work.

I’ve only ever once had a coach run with me, and it’s powerful to see your guide walk (run?) the talk. I love my writing teacher who writes along with us students every time. We’re all in this together.

It's transformational to do this work in community rather than doing it alone.

There's a subtle sense of accountability through the witnessing. There's a deeper connection. There’s a soul and dream level that flows below elections and pandemics, that feeds the psyche and tends those deeper waters so easily neglected in this dramatic and distracting year.

2020 may be a year of coping, but it's not a year to give up on. 

11 weeks remain. That's a whole lot of time that can serve your growth and your soul. That's a lot of time available for connection that nourishes and eases anxiety. That's a lot of time calling for both creativity and strength.

We're in this year together. The final months of 2020 can be a nourishing, replenishing space rather than spinning, coping, over consuming and barely getting by and letting the distractions win.

But you may not be able to hold that space yourself.

Recalibrate: Autumn is a time to drop in, sync with the seasons, cultivate your magick, and integrate some of the lessons and emotions of this year instead of carrying them around in a huge roll on your back hoping they'll magically dissipate come 2021.

As the name suggests, Recalibrate isn't about consuming more. It's about tuning in to the season and the Moon, tuning in to your dreams and your inner world, tuning in to what's present and tending it so it can either grow or be let go.

The purpose is replenishment and lightness so you feel prepared heading into Winter. So you are ready to face the unusual challenges of holidays this year, grounded in yourself and your values.

You can feel aligned and connected rather than distracted and spinning. In Recalibrate you tune your personal inner compass according to your priorities and values.

Recalibrate lives at the intersection of practical and magickal. It's a 6-week series that begins October 20.

Photo thanks to ian dooley on Unsplash