You don’t have to know what comes next. You just need a place where you can hear yourself clearly.
There are seasons when the life you built stops matching the person living it. Nothing is wrong, exactly. It just does not fit the way it used to.
You’ve spent a lot of your life taking care of things. Being there for people. Doing what needed to be done. And somewhere along the way, you may have gotten a little too far away from yourself.
I feel a little lost.
I need some guidance.
I’m confused.
I don’t trust myself the way I think I should.
I know something needs to change.
I want to feel like myself again.
Not a program with steps. A shape the work tends to take when someone finally has room to think.
Put the bags down. Nothing has to be decided in the first conversation.
Say it out loud, in your own order, to someone who is not waiting to fix it.
See what you said, written back to you, and notice what keeps coming up.
Name the season you are in. Most of the weight lifts once it has a name.
Find the parts of yourself that got set aside while you took care of everything else.
Let the next thing show itself, at a distance if it helps, on your own timeline.
Natalee works with women who are trying to understand what is happening in their lives—and what they want to do about it. Sometimes it’s a relationship. Sometimes it’s a career. Sometimes it’s the children growing up, loneliness, or the strange realization that the life you built doesn’t quite feel like yours anymore. And sometimes there isn’t a clear reason.
She brings a scientific mind, a deep interest in people, and a lifetime of travel used the way she still uses it: as a way of getting far enough from a life to see it clearly.
How the work goesNo pitch, no program to sign up for. A few words about where you are, and Natalee writes back.