Unfolding
As spring ends and summer approaches, many of us might notice that we still feel stiff, carrying significant inner tensions that might have gone unnoticed.
Summer is now here, bringing brighter light and the longest days of the year! Our beautiful South Downs and seaside landscapes brighten, colours intensify, and nature stretches, uncurls, opens up, and flourishes… so can we!
For those of us navigating the edge of menopause and post-menopause, this seasonal transition mirrors something even more profound.
In some traditions, this time of life is known as the Second Spring, a chance not just to pause, but to reawaken.
Not a closing, but an opening.
Not an ending, but a tender re-beginning.
It’s a season that asks:
What do I want to blossom into now?
What do I need to shed to soften into who I’m becoming?
Unfolding isn’t always easy, but if we listen carefully, the body often whispers long before the mind catches up.
Pause and Check-In
Are you holding your breath, clenching your teeth, rounding your back, tightening your shoulders? Are you all too familiar with those crunched up postures?
Try this gentle invitation to soften, stretch, and breathe into who we are becoming.
Clench your fists. Hunch your shoulders. Close your eyes tightly. Curl your toes.
Squeeeeeze… and stop.
Sigh. Release.
Drop your shoulders. Wiggle your fingers. Unfurl your spine.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Open a little more.
Stretch, like a fern unfolding in the morning sun.
Unfold softly, slowly into a different way of being.
Shake your hands gently and smile.
This month, may you soften inner tensions, open up to a new beginning, and dare to be the change you want to see in your organisation, family, community, and life!
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Words: Mathilde Barbier