Every leaf will fall eventually, each at its own pace. There may be certain areas in your life where you are thriving and other areas in your life that you feel are delayed. Nevertheless, you are still right on time. The leaves of a tree do not all change color at once. Some branches may be full of brown leaves, some branches may be full of red, some may even still be green while others are beginning to fall— it is the same regarding the different parts of yourself. You will not be ready across every area of your life for change all at once. Allow this fall season to be about cultivating the conditions necessary for release versus trying to force endings. The body cannot release, will not release, as long as it does not feel safe. So if you have been struggling to let go of something whether an identity, a habit, a story, a feeling, it’s because you have not cultivated an deep enough sense of safety within. Fall is the time to slow down, go inward, to reflect, to get silent, to understand what allows you to feel safe and nourished. Cycles do not close through force or even through intention, they close through alignment, through completion. Letting go is allowed to feel gentle. A natural ending when honored timely, feels soft. Like the only next course of action available. What if letting go could feel as soft as the way the leaf falls from the branch to the ground? I believe it can, if our sense of safety and trust is strong enough. The ground is from where the leaf originated from. The ground is what the leaf spent its entire life being supported by, uplifted by. So why would the leaf be afraid of simply returning home to it? Likewise, every time we let go, we are simply returning parts of us back to from where they came. There is no loss, only recycling, transmuting, alchemizing. Eventually the leaf and all of the lived experience & wisdom it gathered before falling off the branch, becomes one again with the soil and becomes food for the same tree to grow new leaves. This is integration. Nature doesn’t waste. Nor will any part of ourselves be wasted either.