I Take Full Responsibility for the Babies that Were Created
I take full responsibility for the babies that were created.
Now, before you think I’ve lost all my marbles… hear me out.
Let’s take it back to 2019. I was selling Tupperware, and had a 2 year old. I knew we were ready to add another human to our family.
My Tupperware business was thriving. I had just earned a trip to Hawaii, was driving a Tupperware car, and had built a team of over 50 people. It appeared that I was “successful” and was building something that would last.
Except that once I met that huge goal of earning a trip to Hawaii, I sort of lost my drive to keep going. I didn’t have a big goal to motivate me and I just knew something needed to change.
My gut was telling me to be done. Having another baby would require even more of my time, and I was planning to breastfeed this one again, for as long as was possible, which meant a huge time commitment.
I knew what needed to be done, but I felt hesitant. And a little scared. It was time to walk away from my Tupperware business, and make space in my life for this new life I wanted to create.
A few months after closing up shop, I got pregnant with Clara.
I’ve seen this over and over again in my life, I quit my OT job, and the nursery became an option for Dave and I.
I stopped doing everything the year after my mom died, and the Slow Down Retreat was born.
Taking breaks, quitting, time outs, pausing, slowing down…. All of these things lead to an increase in creation energy. Sometimes that looks like a human baby, sometimes that looks like a retreat, or a book, or a new project, or even a move, change of career, or business opportunity. You can’t really know what will happen, but you can be sure that something will happen if you create the space for it
So yea, I take full responsibility for the babies that I’ve created (other people’s babies)-both human and in the form of art) in the last 6 months.
The Slow Down Retreat gave the women that space, the space to take a breather, reset, and allow the flow of creative energy. The creativity that was sparked from these two retreats blew my mind.
And now there’s an opportunity for you to get a little snippet of this on the daily. As I’ve released control, let go and let flow, the next piece of this slow down journey has been born.