I’m looking into what I can put down, especially as I know that more things are coming up with the holiday season. I don’t want my being to burst at the seams in some vain attempt to ‘hold it all together.’ Because no thanks — I have a long history with holding it all together, and while I’m pretty good at it, we really need to part ways on my terms. That’s just not how I want to live.

If there’s anything I’ve learned through my own time-management struggles and self-cultivation practices, it’s that we have to be willing to break our own unsupportive patterns in order to evolve. And this is inherently uncomfortable. Sometimes (speaking for myself), just the idea of interrupting a pattern can feel like a real live threat to my nervous system.