Embracing The In-Between
This place…it’s as close to heaven as I can imagine.
Daniel took me on a long drive last week to one of the beautiful lakes nearby. It’s one of my favorites because we pass through all the beautiful ranch land uniquely backdropped by mountains. It bridges the gap between spacious farmland and the security of the forest.It’s the closing of autumn here with the first dusting of snow already healed and plenty more on it’s way. It’s the time when the herds of cattle and stock are in their most calm state.No longer fighting to find shade under the summer heat but not yet seeking each other’s warmth to stave off the bitter cold of winter. They’re in a kind of hanging state- an in between.Grazing, lounging, meandering.
Walking off the work and sweat of summer and leaning into the slower pace days of late autumn. They are preparing for their energy to go inward, just as the trees are. Fatting up, adding the extra fluffy coats to create a boundary between their body and the snow. The not-so-little babies are bolstering their strength for the winter ahead.They are in the beautiful in between of extremes.
Seasons of transition allow us to build capacity for the pendulum swings so our nervous systems can handle it rather than be thrust into an extreme.An “extreme” is simply something “being far beyond the norm”. It’s only when we jump from one end to the polar opposite that it’s a shock. When we transition into it we adapt just fine. Our capacity is increased. Our bodies and our hearts are equipped.It doesn’t make the cold less sharp or the heat less suffocating but it allows us to build our resiliency for both. It gives us a beautiful space between to ground and gather our resources for the next season.We need all seasons. We need the depth of winter to send nutrients deep, and we need the heat of summer to drive growth forward into maturation. We need the autumn and the spring to help us gentle arrive at both “extremes” with tools and capacity.Your inner seasons are just the same.You have two transition seasons building up to your ovulation and dropping you into the depths of your menstruation.Your inner Autumn arrives in your Luteal phase and gives you the perfect energy to prepare yourself for the inner winter of your bleed.The first half of your autumn phase makes you attentive to every detail and sensitive to your surroundings so you can feel what needs resolution so you can release it.Your inner Spring arrives in your Follicular phase as you slowly rise from your winter and build toward the peak of your inner summer or Ovulatory phase.You received a beautiful energy like the early morning light- the gentle reminder to come back out into the world and begin anew.These transitional phases are often judged as too slow, too fast, too boring, too mundane. But, my friend, it’s these in between states that give you everything you need to withstand the peaks and valleys in life.Ovulation is great, but it can easily burn you out.Menstruation is nourishing, but it can lull you to sleep.These transitions softly lead you by the hand to continue your cyclical journey and move through life with all that you need, embracing every season, every rise, every fall along the way.Want more? Check out my course Cycle Sync For Life and learn how to reprogram patterning around the beauty and power of your feminine through somatic coaching. *Cycle syncing, also known as menstrual cycle syncing, was first coined by Alisa Vitti, an expert in women's hormones and integrative nutrition, in her book “Woman Code” in 2014.
