It is true - that when we are ready, willing and able to step into discomfort for the respecting our goals, values and aspirations - sometimes it gets worse before it gets better.

When we allow our dissonance to surface, the 'treatment effect' can occur. When we notice what we need to notice, we can experience regret, difficult habits, ways of being, unhealthy attachments and the comfort of the familiar ways.

Awareness typically asks for change.
Change is typically uncomfortable.
There is no growth without change.

What we resist, persists.

Notice.
Name.
Choose?

Lead yourself well.

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Sometimes we default to thinking that what we have isn't good enough. If only we did this, had this, achieved this, etc.

Sometimes we truly lack something truly important that is irreconcilable - a person, a dream, health, a passion, a hoped-for future.

I'm a strong advocate for the process of grief, loss and mourning.

Simultaneously in myself, I notice that I can lack appreciate for what is not yet lost, and what presently simultaneously still exists - people, dreams, passions, health and possibilities of a hoped-for future.

Both / And. It all belongs.

Life and work may not be a perfect four-leaf clover, but it can still be beautiful.

Lead yourself well.