Is It Me?

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Recently, I started working with a new client—an executive who hated her job.

She came to me because she realized that being miserable at her new job felt… familiar. She’d felt this way at her two previous jobs as well. This time, instead of quitting again and finding something new, she paused.

She realized:
“Maybe it’s not the job.”
“Maybe it’s me.”

So, she decided to do the most courageous thing—she chose to do some internal work.

I love working with people who think they hate their job—
and think the job is the problem.

Sometimes it is. It’s like wearing shoes that are two sizes too small.
Other times, the job itself is fine—but the parameters don’t work:
the commute, the hours, the energy mismatch.

But more often than not?
It’s not the job.
It’s how we relate to the job.

I used to think my experience came from what I was doing—from my job, my task, my circumstances.

If I hated something, I blamed the thing itself.
But then, I came across the most beautiful, simple, and powerful understanding.

A Scottish welder named Sydney Banks had a profound insight:

We’re not experiencing our circumstances. We’re experiencing our thinking about our circumstances.

Our feelings come from our thinking.

This is life-changing.

So, as my client was describing her stress and overwhelm,
I gently pointed to the truth of her experience.
We looked at the volume of thoughts she was having.
The kind of thoughts she was fueling.

And I shared what I’ve come to know in my bones:

We don’t have to follow every thought.

We don’t have to believe them. We can let them go.

Imagine your thoughts are like a bouquet of helium balloons.
Each one tied to a string. Each string in your hand.

You can’t control their shape, size, or color.
But you can choose to let them go.

You open your hand.
And watch them float away…

And that’s exactly what my client began to do.

She noticed her thinking.
She softened.
And then—she let it float away.

She didn’t change her job.
But her experience of her job changed.

This awareness is so simple.
And the effects are profound.

🌙 Let Your Thoughts Drift Away

As you reflect on the idea of releasing unhelpful thoughts, consider this:
Sometimes it’s okay to stay a little longer with what’s rising.

To accompany this soft pause, here’s a song that holds the feeling of being in that tender in-between space:

🎧 Stay a Little Longer – Brothers Osborne

Let the melody guide you.
Let your thoughts float free.
And allow yourself to be held—right here, where you are.

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