I’ve been sitting with this idea of disturbance lately. Disturbance in the sense of your inner flame being moved by outside forces. Wind comes through, the oxygen shifts, the flame flickers. That doesn’t make it less of a flame. It’s still burning. And I think most of us forget that when we’re in the middle of it. We think the flickering is the failure. It’s not.

I landed on this image that just felt right. Rumble strips. You know the ones on the highway that shake you awake when you drift? They’re there to redirect your attention. Maybe the hard moments in our lives are doing the same thing. Shaking us enough to notice where we’ve drifted so we can recalibrate and come back to what we actually want and need. That’s awareness. That’s the beginning of something real.

A Map of Wisdom
Here are some of the places we go together in this talk:
✦ Feeling it does not mean I failed
✦ I can be shaken and still be myself
✦ Disturbance can bring me back
✦ I am more than what happened to me
✦ What I can do now still matters

Something to Sit With
What if the next disturbance you feel is actually a rumble strip meant to help you see what you truly need right now?

A Restorative Step:
Next time you notice yourself getting disturbed pause for sixty seconds breathe and ask what this moment is redirecting your attention toward.