On the first season finale of the Sit With Snit podcast, I invite you to reflect on what these eleven episodes meant to me and what I hope they have meant for you. I don't particularly see this episode as a finale per se, but rather as an invitation to pause with me. After eleven groundbreaking and intentional conversations with thought leaders, it is time to sit and stop. Over this past year, especially when beginning this podcast journey with you all, I have learned the following: I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. Of course, I have my select inner circle of confidants that I look to for guidance, and their advice better helps me shape my narrative, and still, at the end of the day, I truly know best.
How did I get to this knowledge, you may ask? I've done a lot of inner work that I can now invite myself, my full self, into the silence. I remember reading Glennon Doyle's "Untamed" and deeply resonating when she introduced to readers the concept of "the knowing." After convincing herself that at least ten minutes a day would help her find herself in her closet since, at best, she took eighty minutes finding her lost keys. "This place is underneath; low, deep, quiet, still. There are no voices there, not even my own. All I can hear down there is my breath. It was as though I’d been drowning, and in my panic, I had been gasping for air, calling for rescue, and flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink...I can know things down at this level that I can’t on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life — in words or abstract images — I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me toward the next precise thing, and then, when I silently acknowledge the nudge — it fills me. The Knowing feels like warm liquid gold filling my veins and solidifying just enough to make me feel steady, certain."
What Doyle calls "The Knowing," I call my neshama, my G-dly infinite spark. When I allow myself to get quiet and sit with things without fear or judgment, my soul speaks to me and fills me in on everything I need to know, and now I invite us all to engage in such an experience until the next season of the Sit With Snit podcast. So, are you ready for some reflection with your girl?