Listening for What Wants to Emerge
There is a threshold many women cross quietly. From the outside, life still looks full and capable. The roles are held, the responsibilities met, the days filled with things that once felt meaningful. Inside, however, something subtle has shifted. The way you have been living and working no longer quite fits who you are becoming. It is not dramatic. It does not announce itself as crisis. It arrives as a faint restlessness, a soft ache, a sense that something honest is asking for your attention.
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This moment is often misunderstood. We are taught to interpret discomfort as a sign that something is wrong, that we should fix, optimise, or move faster. Yet this threshold is not a failure of will. It is a deepening of soul. It is the psyche and the body inviting a more truthful relationship with your life. What wants to emerge is not a better version of who you have been, but a truer expression of who you are now.
Listening in this way requires a different posture. It asks for slowness, patience, and the courage to not know. It asks us to step out of the noise of urgency and into a quieter, more intimate conversation with ourselves and with the living world. Over time, we discover that clarity does not come from effort or strategy. It comes from relationship: with our inner life, with the landscapes that hold us, and with the rhythms that are shaping our becoming.
Practice
Find a quiet place and set a timer for twenty minutes. Sit without an agenda. Notice what repeatedly draws your attention — a sound, a memory, a longing, a place. Write without editing for ten minutes, beginning with the sentence: “What is quietly asking for me now is…” Stop before you feel finished.
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Reflection Questions
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What has been trying to get my attention beneath the busyness of my days?
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Where might I be ready to listen rather than decide?