I saw this on Facebook yesterday and it really resonated with me, so I thought I’d share it in case it spoke to some of you too.

I feel like I’m in a bit of a transition period at the moment.  I’ve spoken before on my blog about how I know I won’t be doing therapy forever but up until recently I wasn’t quite sure what might come afterwards.  Well, over the last few months I’ve been creating a clearer idea of what my future could look like and, for me at least, it’s all very exciting.  Watch this space for further announcements over the next few weeks… 😉

The next few years are going to involve a lot of hard work.  I’m not stopping therapy work any time soon, that’s for sure – my clients are too important to me and I do really enjoy the work.  So for a while I’ll be combining the two – still doing my full-time therapy work and then working on this new venture in the evenings, at weekends and on days where I’m a bit quieter therapy-wise, somehow figuring out a way to do it without compromising time with my husband and our girls.  Over time my plan is to gradually decrease the therapy work and increase this new work.  When they’re relatively equal I guess I’ll be at a new transition phase where I’ll need to decide whether to choose one over the other, or to continue with both.

I’m so excited about this new project that it’s occupied much of my headspace for weeks now – I have so many ideas and plans for it that I haven’t got enough notebooks to write them all down in!  I’m finding it frustrating that I have to wait a while until everything is in place before I can launch it.  But I know it’s going to be worthwhile getting all the little details right.

So for now I need to honour that space of having to be patient and wait, knowing that the working life I’ve had up until now is no longer, and the new phase is not yet ready.

As a therapist I can see that many of my clients are in this same space right now, albeit in a different way.  They no longer want to be where they are, struggling with eating disorders, anxiety, depression, low self esteem etc… And they’re not yet quite at the stage of being able to fully let go of it, though I know that all of them will get there.  This space in between ‘no longer’ and ‘not yet’ is where the hard work happens, where challenges are faced head on and where old beliefs are let go of.  It’s not an easy place to be, but it’s an incredibly important one.  It deserves to be honoured.

Maybe some of you who are reading this now are also in a space between no longer and not yet, for reasons personal to you.  If you are, I urge you to honour it.  Let the magic unfold.

I’d love to find out your thoughts on this idea of honouring the space, so please do feel free to leave a comment below and share this blog with your friends.

Thank you for reading.