Fun fact about trees. They do the vast amount of they are growing during the three months of summer. The rest of the year the growth is virtually imperceptible.

During the autumn, winter, and spring, there is imperceptible growth from the outside, but trees transform from the inside out. All of that new soft green wood solidifies into strong hardwood. The tree becomes mature. Solid. Ready to sustain the next chapter of growth. It may not be growing in size, but it it’s changing nonetheless.

It often feels as if there is constant pressure for us to be always camera ready. Always having arrived, always on top of the next thing the world brings to us. But that is an impossible expectation. What is life if not a constant state of growing and firming in your new truth?

Are you in a growing stage? Or are you building a new support system to hold up the new world you discovered during your last period of growth? What kind of nourishment do you need during this stage of your development?