Spice, Light and Letting Go

A November ritual for clearing space and finding your inner compass.

Welcome to November my friend. I am so pleased to be here with you.

There is something special offered by every month, if we search for it.

November can feel bleak with darker nights, colder mornings and the damp in the air. But, as a friend recently reminded and inspired me so beautifully (thank you

Carrie-Ann Wade

) it’s also full of spice, warmth, fizz and light. I’m choosing to focus on welcoming those in too.

So, on that note, why not choose from a warming chai, spicy hot chocolate or glass of fizz as we sit together today. You get to choose what you’re welcoming in. So let’s start there…

A new month means a new theme for The Coaching Café, and November welcomes in a sense of direction, self-guidance and coming home to yourself. Finding your compass.

In The Circle (the membership group from my flagship programme Awakening Women’s Lives) recently we were talking about the energy of conscious completion, and blessing and releasing of those things that no longer serve us.

Autumn is a time of release and letting go. It’s the beginning of starting to turn energies inward. To the energy of grounding. The trees are doing it; letting go and trusting in the natural rhythms and cycles, without feeling the desperate need to cling to their nuts, berries, leaves…

We need to trust ourselves enough to recognise when letting go is right for us.

Insight Questions:

I wanted to share the three of the questions we considered in our reflecting here incase they might also be useful to you:

• What am I ready to release from this year?

• What needs to be honoured or acknowledged before I let it go?

• What quality or energy do I want to invite in as we move into winter?

It is when we focus on these questions (and those like them) that we can start to focus fully on that energy of completion and letting go.

Sometimes we feel ourselves hanging onto something (old stories, relationships, careers…) that once served us, or we felt obligated to invest in, but now it’s the time to say thank you and move on.

It allows us more space to welcome in new things; opportunities, friendships, relationships, joy.

It can be so helpful to look at these sorts of journals questions when you’re feeling untethered or lost. They can help reground you and explore what else you might want to welcome in instead.

My online programme, The Compass, is designed to do exactly that. It’s a tool for self-navigation. Reminding yourself what matters to you, what you want to let go of, and what you want to welcome in. Sometimes we need the support and creation of time and space to really feel into some of those bigger questions to be able to tap in to the self-guidance we all hold for ourselves.

The next part of The Coaching Café is where the magic happens; The Honey. This week’s has two coaching exercises you can do right now to help you release what’s been holding you back and welcome in the energy you want next.