Slow Down to Speed Up | Reflections

© Photo Martha Wooding-Young, The Magurrewock, Calais, Maine

As you read this, I’ll be off-grid on silent retreat.
Once a quarter, I take a week to reset—meditating in silence, doing slow, mindful chores between sessions. Think: weeding. Lots of it.

As the silence deepens, so does the reflection. I find myself mulching, metabolizing, and composting the season behind me—what’s no longer needed, what’s ready to nourish something new. [end blockquote]

This time, I suspect I’ll be sitting with how deep patterns from my family system still show up in my life—and how often I see the same for my clients.

Think you’re uniquely free of old patterns?
You’d be the only human I’ve met who is.

But the good news? These patterns aren’t fixed.
They can be composted. With care, with practice, and with presence.

If you’re curious how to mulch some of your own inherited patterns into something more nourishing, I’d love to talk.