Change often takes a lot of energy. Resisting it, driving it, gearing up for it, fighting it, running with it, anticipating it, adjusting to it and doing all the things that come with it.
A different kind of energy is required when we are in limbo, the space between uncertain options. Waiting for a test result, a decision, an appointment, an approval, an unpredictable process to run its course.
There may be an urge to act regardless, just to be doing something, or to opt out, to somehow make the whole thing go away. Doing nothing can feel like our battery is suddenly draining like a mobile phone after one too many updates.
It’s hard to stay suspended in the in between. It takes patience and trust and a shedding of needs – the need for control, the need to know, the need to be anywhere other than we are right now.
Helen Mentha 