Pause. Breathe. Reassess.

Occasionally, we just need to pause.




When we find ourselves with a churning or anxious mind, we need to pause. When we feel overwhelmed or unsure, we need to pause. When our nervous systems are caught in a state of fight or flight, constantly waiting for the next fire that needs extinguishing, we just need to pause. When the days keep turning and are starting to blend together, or when what’s coming seems more than we can calculate the outcome of, we need to pause. Especially when we are reacting more often than responding, and when we can’t immediately remember the last time we felt gratitude, we need to pause.

Viktor E. Frankl said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

When we don’t pause, often the unpredictability of life can have us spinning our mental wheels for ongoing periods of time without us realising it. The puzzle pieces start to swim around our heads, we wake at 3am when random thoughts surface and our brains want to chat, or we lack tolerance for daily interactions or challenges that would otherwise…