04/15/2023
When you just need a break…
You don’t have to ask for permission. You don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t have to worry about what others may think.
You take a break.
From a task, from a conversation, from social media, from a relationship, from a job, from a city…Take a break, before YOU break.
With all of the changes that have happened in my life over the past year, I have been working SO DANG HARD to just listen. To listen to my body + my intuition.
My body KNEW when things weren’t right with my career and lifestyle. As much as my mind fought it, told me how unrealistic or irrational my decision would be to leave my career, or how uncomfortable it would be to change my lifestyle, I chose to listen to my body. I listened because I was desperate. I listened before I broke.
It was the best decision that I could have ever made for myself. LISTENING.
Not to what others may think, or tell me, or whatever standard I thought I had to uphold.
I listened to MYSELF. I took a break in life.
Lately, I’ve been on what feels like to me, a fairly long social media “break”. Being completely transparent, I have a huge LOVE/HATE relationship with social media. It’s an incredible tool to use as a free platform to advertise & connect, especially with a new business, but I find myself struggling between wanting to grow my business via social media & wanting to maintain a sense of privacy + presence in my every day life.
I’ve been taking a break to try to figure out how I ACTUALLY want to show up on social media. While I’ve been “away”, we hit 1.5K FOLLOWERS and have continued to accept bookings at The Main Hen House into September!
& I’ve been TAKING 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 BREAK 👏🏼
Sometimes you realize that the wheels WILL keep turning even when you’re not the one physically doing the pushing. You don’t have to say yes to every opportunity, work every waking minute, or burn yourself out in order to make progress, or to be HAPPY in life. You’ve got to take the wheel and do some steering sometimes, but you don’t have to do it all, be it all, ALL. OF. THE. TIME.
Did I worry that people may notice & have their own thoughts about it? OF COURSE. Did I let it force me to continue to post content I wasn’t passionate about or burnt me out? NOPE.
I let the wheels turn without me, and the wagon kept pushing forward. I felt relieved.
So I challenge you to listen. Not to the voices around you, but to the one deep down inside of you. The voice that you probably always hear but often push away.
The one that could be telling you to go for a walk in the middle of hard task, hire a cleaner to help with some of the house work, book that vacation you keep putting off…
Start listening to that voice & trust yourself in knowing, when you just need a break. I’m here to tell you always, it’s ok.
