Ep. 78: The power of the PAUSE

Written By Elisabeth Fleming

[25 MIN LISTEN]

 

Our butterflies emerged from their chrysalises this week AND IT WAS AMAZING! 

 UH-MAY-ZING!!! 

 What an incredibly profound experience to see the experience from beginning to end.

And it taught me SO much about life. How we live our lives and, more importantly, let ourselves live our lives.

 
[Image: “Mr. Flowie” was the first to fly (yes, I cried)]

[Image: “Mr. Flowie” was the first to fly (yes, I cried)]

 

Watching these creatures transform puts life into perspective. 

Sure it was educational but also symbolic for where I am in my life right now - a complete + utter metamorphosis.

I am not the same person I was yesterday, last week, last month, last year.

And, TBH, neither are you!

So much is changing all of the time + watching these beauties go through an expedited version of that process was grounding.

A beautiful reminder to be present, take your time + let yourself evolve + adapt to change.

In this week's NEW SOLO EPISODE, you’ll learn:

  • The power of the pause - what does it mean? What does it look like? What are the benefits?

  • Adapting to change + how to let yourself evolve

  • Opening your awareness to recognize what truly serves you

We are surrounded by miracles every second of every day. Open your eyes + your hearts to them all.

 

Episode transcript:

This is an auto-generated, unedited episode transcript. Please excuse any typos.

Welcome to The Life with Liz Podcast, the place to be if you wanna go from invisible to vibrant in your life, and embrace the power you didn't know you had inside of you. I'm your host, Liz Fleming, business owner, mom, military spouse, entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and life coach, who is passionate about helping ambitious women like you step into their power and their purpose on purpose so they can experience as much joy, success, satisfaction, and abundance as humanly possible.

Now without further ado, let's dive right into this episode.

00:02:11.009 --> 00:02:15.190 Liz Fleming: All of my subscribers have been kind of, kept up to date on

23 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:28.329 Liz Fleming: this monarch butterfly saga that I've been on. And I want to shed light on it today on the podcast because, I came to the realization recently that

24 00:02:29.180 --> 00:02:32.179 Liz Fleming: there is obviously a reason for everything

25 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:38.760 Liz Fleming: but this experience I just had with my family, and taking care of these

26 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:47.219 Liz Fleming: butterfly eggs and seeing them transform into caterpillars, and then chrysalisees, and then butterflies was

27 00:02:47.940 --> 00:02:51.960 Liz Fleming: so mind blowing and so eye-opening

28 00:02:52.420 --> 00:03:01.890 Liz Fleming: physically, but it also felt so deeply symbolic of where I'm at in my life, and

29 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:07.000 Liz Fleming: it was a really emotional experience. I'm not sure I'm I'm 35.

30 00:03:07.380 --> 00:03:14.460 Liz Fleming: I had never watched that process unfold face to face in my own home before.

31 00:03:14.710 --> 00:03:22.760 Liz Fleming: I've always been fascinated by butterflies. But holy cannoli, seeing that take place in the span of a few weeks

32 00:03:23.730 --> 00:03:32.759 Liz Fleming: in my living room. We had this really cool butterfly castle. It's like a netted home for them, and it had a milkweed plant inside, and

33 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:39.167 Liz Fleming: we got this this castle from all of flooders, farm and

34 00:03:40.310 --> 00:03:50.070 Liz Fleming: High Point, North Carolina. So Mama Bear drove 3 h round trip with a milkweed plant in her lap

35 00:03:50.950 --> 00:03:55.960 Liz Fleming: on an open freeway, hoping it wasn't gonna tip over, as I, you know, like

36 00:03:56.440 --> 00:04:01.040 Liz Fleming: navigate a torrential pop-up thunderstorm. Thank you, North Carolina.

37 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:16.589 Liz Fleming: So this whole butterfly thing was just an experience of epic proportions, and I I ordered this butterfly castle. I'd heard about it through a gal PAL with the small town social, my women's group.

38 00:04:17.568 --> 00:04:19.659 Liz Fleming: Last year I think it was

39 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:40.760 Liz Fleming: she was like, Oh, I just released monarch butterflies with my granddaughter. I was like, please keep talking, and she told me about this farm that sells what are called these butterfly castles, where they give you a milkweed plant. The netting they physically put like 4 eggs, fertilized eggs on milkweed leaves, and then

40 00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:42.829 Liz Fleming: you take care of the plants.

41 00:04:42.990 --> 00:04:48.109 Liz Fleming: and the plant takes care of the caterpillars. You know. They become hopefully. They all hatch into caterpillars.

42 00:04:48.230 --> 00:04:49.960 Liz Fleming: You're guaranteed at least one.

43 00:04:50.170 --> 00:04:52.670 Liz Fleming: We got 4 bad boys. It was awesome.

44 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:53.940 Liz Fleming: So.

45 00:04:54.060 --> 00:05:08.390 Liz Fleming: anyway, heard about this last year, and I was like, hell! Yes, I'm doing this, and I looked it up. And of course they're living creatures. You have to pick them up in person. It's not like Amazon. I can't prime them, and they can't just show up at my doorstep, you know. Part of the whole experience is, you go to the farm.

46 00:05:08.530 --> 00:05:15.650 Liz Fleming: and I was so jazzed when I ordered them. I was like, my son is going to go bananas. My daughter was still pretty young.

47 00:05:15.930 --> 00:05:21.339 Liz Fleming: but I was like, 6 months is going to go by, and she's gonna just be super into this, too.

48 00:05:21.690 --> 00:05:28.390 Liz Fleming: And I was like, well, you know, it is a 3 h round trip drive. But I'll figure it out. It's not a big deal. I'm just. I'm gonna figure it out.

49 00:05:28.770 --> 00:05:31.030 Liz Fleming: And so time goes by.

50 00:05:31.320 --> 00:05:33.890 Liz Fleming: April comes, and the farm is like

51 00:05:34.260 --> 00:05:40.159 Liz Fleming: these babies are ready. You need to pick them up on this day. At this time these are living creatures, and I was just like, Oh.

52 00:05:40.390 --> 00:05:54.189 Liz Fleming: you know, my mom brain was like on overload, like, okay, I had to work backwards. You know, all the moms out there know this work backwards from the nap times from the usual routine, and then insert your help as needed.

53 00:05:54.610 --> 00:05:58.809 Liz Fleming: So it was a very hectic process, you know.

54 00:06:00.420 --> 00:06:18.559 Liz Fleming: coordinating stuff with my husband, who's in the military, and that day I was just like frantic. It's probably the Virgo and healing perfectionist in me that was like I need to go at this time. So the kids are ready, and you know the kids weren't coming with me. I was honestly looking forward to that a little bit

55 00:06:18.750 --> 00:06:23.389 Liz Fleming: 3 whole hours to myself to listen to whatever the FI want.

56 00:06:23.550 --> 00:06:27.039 Liz Fleming: Uncensored windows open anything I want.

57 00:06:27.320 --> 00:06:30.450 Liz Fleming: Glorious little mini vacation tossed into the middle of the week.

58 00:06:31.250 --> 00:06:38.179 Liz Fleming: So any who the point of me telling you this is I'm driving. I'm on this journey, listening to podcasts. And

59 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:52.079 Liz Fleming: I'm having this realization of like, you know, this whole year has been so tough for my listeners out there who have been with me for a while. Now you've heard all the stories, and you kind of know my mother-in-law passed away earlier this year

60 00:06:52.320 --> 00:07:01.020 Liz Fleming: in February, and it rocked our world. It still is, continues, blow after blow with our family thing after thing.

61 00:07:01.890 --> 00:07:03.140 Liz Fleming: so

62 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:14.419 Liz Fleming: professionally with my work. You know my business, the small town social and my life coaching business things. I'm so creatively passionate about and inspired by just kind of, came to a bit of a halt.

63 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:19.760 Liz Fleming: and the old programming in my head.

64 00:07:20.110 --> 00:07:27.030 Liz Fleming: who used to work in a corporate, you know. I say 8 to 5, but it was more like 7 to 10

65 00:07:27.470 --> 00:07:29.839 Liz Fleming: for decades.

66 00:07:30.470 --> 00:07:57.090 Liz Fleming: very unhealthy work, life balance going on back before the children. And so I still have this old conditioning of like, you know, you've you've got to be busy to be successful, right? It's like that hustler mentality hated that. And so, you know, I'd come through the year the holidays. Another glow con happened in March, and

67 00:07:57.290 --> 00:07:59.669 Liz Fleming: after that ended. I just felt.

68 00:07:59.880 --> 00:08:03.859 Liz Fleming: you know I felt so guided by my intuition at this point on my journey.

69 00:08:04.130 --> 00:08:17.789 Liz Fleming: I am very in tune with my intuition, and I'm letting it guide me in anything as per my human design, which I'm pretty sure I plug in every episode, because it has been such a profound and powerful tool for me

70 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:19.739 Liz Fleming: on my healing journey.

71 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:29.470 Liz Fleming: And so I've been following my intuition. And in that moment something was like, just stop!

72 00:08:33.669 --> 00:08:46.060 Liz Fleming: Have you ever like? Said that to yourself. Just stop, not pause. I'm like, you know, it's okay to pause. Every now and then we have weekends. We have whatever. After the kids go to bed, we can pause. You can pause throughout the day. But have you ever just stopped?

73 00:08:46.470 --> 00:08:48.279 Liz Fleming: And I don't mean give up.

74 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:52.970 Liz Fleming: because I'll never give up on myself and my creative flow and my

75 00:08:53.150 --> 00:08:55.469 Liz Fleming: my businesses, and whatever they become.

76 00:08:56.230 --> 00:09:02.590 Liz Fleming: But it was like my energy was just like drop in the PIN.

77 00:09:02.780 --> 00:09:09.369 Liz Fleming: We're stopping, and you're going to move through each day for however long you need.

78 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:16.059 Liz Fleming: as you feel called, and we're going to see what that feels like. And so I've been doing that for a few months.

79 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:28.999 Liz Fleming: I've only come to this desk to talk with you and to create the content that I do and do small town social stuff, and all my events, like as I feel called.

80 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:32.009 Liz Fleming: because the moment it starts to

81 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:36.479 Liz Fleming: feel hectic and crazy and overwhelming, I know it's

82 00:09:37.660 --> 00:09:40.930 Liz Fleming: it's not serving me, and it's not serving you.

83 00:09:41.510 --> 00:09:47.069 Liz Fleming: And so I had this this big moment. Right? I've got the butterflies

84 00:09:47.270 --> 00:09:53.039 Liz Fleming: I'm driving in the car. I have a point with this whole story. That's why I'm telling it so elaborately. You know me now

85 00:09:53.180 --> 00:09:57.599 Liz Fleming: I'm driving with this milkweed plant like in the passenger seat.

86 00:09:58.370 --> 00:10:16.860 Liz Fleming: It's huge. I mean, this thing is like a big dog milkweed plant. I didn't even know milkweed could like get that big and be transported. I was like, Okay, got my bang for my buck, but also hope this shit doesn't fall into my lap, and there's like butterfly eggs, and I've ruined this whole thing, and I need to come home, and this needs to be a success for my children.

87 00:10:17.020 --> 00:10:19.599 Liz Fleming: They were counting down the days like Christmas. So

88 00:10:19.750 --> 00:10:23.590 Liz Fleming: I'm driving with this milkweed plant over here, and I'm holding it

89 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:36.090 Liz Fleming: hand on the wheel. It's raining, and I'm just so stressed. My husband and I were like in a little bit of a spat before I left, because I was just like I need to drive 3 h round trip like, let's freaking go. I need to get out of this house. I need to go.

90 00:10:36.350 --> 00:10:40.029 Liz Fleming: and I could sense. I was just being driven by

91 00:10:40.270 --> 00:10:43.659 Liz Fleming: fear in that moment, and that was another wake-up call moment.

92 00:10:43.910 --> 00:10:47.789 Liz Fleming: Tears are like coming down my face on this drive home like, what am I doing?

93 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:53.720 Liz Fleming: I know I love my kids, and I want them to experience this. But why am I? Why is my heart so set on this?

94 00:10:53.820 --> 00:11:00.240 Liz Fleming: And then I watched these butterflies start to transform, and

95 00:11:00.710 --> 00:11:04.970 Liz Fleming: it just rocked my world, and it sounds so silly

96 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:08.420 Liz Fleming: saying it out loud. Just sounds so ridiculous. But

97 00:11:09.800 --> 00:11:15.670 Liz Fleming: again I'm in a place where my intuition has called me to stop, and

98 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:24.089 Liz Fleming: a result of me stopping and only listening to my intuition in this way has allowed me to be

99 00:11:24.270 --> 00:11:29.749 Liz Fleming: so present, and to so deeply value

100 00:11:30.560 --> 00:11:35.649 Liz Fleming: where I am in the moment that I'm in, and not

101 00:11:36.430 --> 00:11:40.089 Liz Fleming: at a fictitious moment in the future or

102 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.450 Liz Fleming: a past moment that cannot be changed.

103 00:11:43.300 --> 00:11:44.310 Liz Fleming: So

104 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:57.739 Liz Fleming: weeks go by and we're starting to see these beautiful. I mean the eggs hatch. It happens this process happens so fast it's truly mind boggling. And I'm like going down the rabbit hole and

105 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:00.880 Liz Fleming: of the science I'm like how

106 00:12:01.580 --> 00:12:05.040 Liz Fleming: this is just so cool. And all these things do is they just

107 00:12:06.110 --> 00:12:11.089 Liz Fleming: they take care of themselves. They hatch, they eat, the leaves, they grow, they grow, they grow.

108 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:16.740 Liz Fleming: and then they pause, they stop, they just stop.

109 00:12:17.520 --> 00:12:20.870 Liz Fleming: And I'm not just saying that, like they physically do not move.

110 00:12:21.150 --> 00:12:22.709 Liz Fleming: These things just stop.

111 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.290 Liz Fleming: They turn into like a J shape.

112 00:12:25.860 --> 00:12:31.320 Liz Fleming: and then they transform into a chrysalis. This process takes 10 min.

113 00:12:31.570 --> 00:12:38.360 Liz Fleming: I watched it on all occasions. It was just like chrysalis, and

114 00:12:39.100 --> 00:12:51.419 Liz Fleming: that was probably the most powerful moment was like seeing the chrysalis take shape. I was just like, Okay, that thing is now fully, completely 100% transformed. It is now goo inside of a shell that's somehow going to

115 00:12:51.530 --> 00:12:52.800 Liz Fleming: due to

116 00:12:53.000 --> 00:13:04.339 Liz Fleming: hormonal factors. It's going to create, you know, all the systems required for it to survive as a butterfly. It's going to create itself wing by wing, by wing, by wing, by quadrant, by quadrant.

117 00:13:04.650 --> 00:13:09.670 Liz Fleming: and then they hatched into butterflies.

118 00:13:09.940 --> 00:13:19.509 Liz Fleming: Out of that tiny little thing comes this crinkled up ball of butterfly that just over a few hours, you know, stretches it swings, and

119 00:13:20.540 --> 00:13:25.800 Liz Fleming: you let it outside, and you set it free, and it just knows what to do and how to survive. And

120 00:13:27.400 --> 00:13:31.970 Liz Fleming: that was kind of the

121 00:13:33.530 --> 00:13:40.330 Liz Fleming: the the big Aha moment for me, I think, is the word I'm looking for. I was like, oh.

122 00:13:40.500 --> 00:13:42.980 Liz Fleming: this is kind of like what I'm going through.

123 00:13:43.180 --> 00:13:46.329 Liz Fleming: What I'm sure many people are going through

124 00:13:46.510 --> 00:13:54.910 Liz Fleming: is this metamorphosis of epic proportions, and for someone like me, a recovering

125 00:13:55.030 --> 00:14:06.680 Liz Fleming: people, pleasing, perfectionist, workaholic, who has only ever known hustle culture for her to have the strength enough

126 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:12.979 Liz Fleming: to be in her own awareness to know that the lifestyle she is living is not serving her even with the kids

127 00:14:13.230 --> 00:14:19.540 Liz Fleming: like how I approach that day to day, and how I approach wellness and all these other

128 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:22.410 Liz Fleming: categories of life, if you will

129 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:26.139 Liz Fleming: for her to have that awareness enough to just say

130 00:14:27.730 --> 00:14:30.480 Liz Fleming: we are going to just stop.

131 00:14:30.930 --> 00:14:34.979 Liz Fleming: We're going to stop and all we're going to do. We're not giving up on anything.

132 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:40.369 Liz Fleming: We are just going to be so fully present in this moment, and we're not going to think about

133 00:14:40.790 --> 00:14:44.379 Liz Fleming: the kind of butterfly that we're going to turn out to be.

134 00:14:44.780 --> 00:14:49.929 Liz Fleming: We're just gonna try that whole living thing, the whole living in the moment thing.

135 00:14:50.730 --> 00:14:54.280 Liz Fleming: and it has been the hardest thing ever.

136 00:14:54.610 --> 00:14:56.090 Liz Fleming: I have had.

137 00:14:56.990 --> 00:14:58.110 Liz Fleming: A lot of

138 00:14:58.550 --> 00:15:07.060 Liz Fleming: additional symbolic synchronicity type of things happen because of it that are confirming that this is exactly what I'm meant to be doing.

139 00:15:07.370 --> 00:15:15.130 Liz Fleming: It's something that I've like deeply prayed on and meditated on, because it is so hard to

140 00:15:15.230 --> 00:15:19.630 Liz Fleming: slow down, let alone stop, pause.

141 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:26.810 Liz Fleming: So what a learning experience! And I wanted to come on today

142 00:15:27.890 --> 00:15:30.050 Liz Fleming: and share this with you, because

143 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:54.399 Liz Fleming: watching these creatures transform, and for those of you who are like my insider newsletter subscribers you've I've been including pictures in each newsletter for the past few weeks as part of my like good vibe of the week. That little section in my newsletter, I'm like, Oh, check this out. We have eggs, we have caterpillars. We still have caterpillars, we have chrysalis, chrysalisees.

144 00:15:55.060 --> 00:15:57.129 Liz Fleming: and then we have butterflies.

145 00:15:57.230 --> 00:16:04.920 Liz Fleming: So those of you who are subscribed, and anyone can subscribe anytime please do the more the merrier.

146 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:15.239 Liz Fleming: So you've physically seen it. It's really cool. But watching these butterflies transform has just totally put life into perspective. For me. It was almost like

147 00:16:15.450 --> 00:16:32.209 Liz Fleming: I've been begging the universe for a sign. I'm just like, stop beating around the bush and sending me these dreams that make no sense. And like I've had so many coins. I've had so many pennies. I've had seen so many different animals. I'm like, I need a clear

148 00:16:32.930 --> 00:16:44.680 Liz Fleming: and obvious sign for what my next step is, and then here I am like totally invested for 2 months in the life cycle of a butterfly, and

149 00:16:45.710 --> 00:16:47.500 Liz Fleming: I've always said

150 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:59.960 Liz Fleming: in my practice, and as a person that when you feel like something is a sign, it is you don't have to Google like, what does a cow in my dream mean right? If you feel like it's a sign

151 00:17:00.070 --> 00:17:01.499 Liz Fleming: that's meant for you.

152 00:17:01.810 --> 00:17:10.760 Liz Fleming: just be with it. And the 1st thing that comes to your mind is the message. That's something that's always served me. That's something I've always thought and believed, and

153 00:17:11.089 --> 00:17:20.219 Liz Fleming: I always encourage that for for my community, my clients, whoever's around me. My family, my friends, especially with my family. Now we're grieving.

154 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:31.290 Liz Fleming: My husband will say, Oh, my goodness, I I saw this Cardinal, you know, for the last week. It was pecking on my office window. It felt like it felt like Mom. And I was like.

155 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:33.330 Liz Fleming: Oh, that's beautiful!

156 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:36.100 Liz Fleming: And for you it probably was just that.

157 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:44.130 Liz Fleming: And so when it comes to signs, it's completely subjective. It's so personal.

158 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:51.750 Liz Fleming: And that's why I felt taking care of these these 4 little monarch babies

159 00:17:52.210 --> 00:17:55.250 Liz Fleming: just put life into such perspective for me. Like

160 00:17:56.030 --> 00:18:09.750 Liz Fleming: sure, it was educational, of course, that was so cool. That was one side of it, but it was also symbolic, for where I am in my life right now, just a complete and utter metamorphosis, and you cannot

161 00:18:10.510 --> 00:18:13.450 Liz Fleming: evolve. You cannot adapt and change.

162 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:19.240 Liz Fleming: unless you have those seasons of just stopping, of just pausing

163 00:18:19.450 --> 00:18:25.660 Liz Fleming: like a butterfly in a chrysalis or a shall I? Shall I say caterpillar goo, and a chrysalis.

164 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:33.179 Liz Fleming: and I'm sure there are many other examples that we could give. Looking out at

165 00:18:33.380 --> 00:18:39.649 Liz Fleming: nature about. I mean, the seasons are another prime example, right. We have winter for a reason, a time of

166 00:18:39.780 --> 00:18:45.889 Liz Fleming: stillness, dormancy, cold, shedding, and I knew that. But

167 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:56.580 Liz Fleming: this felt like more so to have this whole experience, and to have it feel it just felt the whole time like so spiritual, and I was so excited by it, and

168 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:06.470 Liz Fleming: that told me that there was something there that I needed to pay attention to, and I did. I totally enjoyed that experience. My kids, of course, enjoyed it.

169 00:19:06.760 --> 00:19:11.760 Liz Fleming: It's kind of hard to explain all of that with very active.

170 00:19:12.030 --> 00:19:14.719 Liz Fleming: you know, 3 and 2 year olds.

171 00:19:15.520 --> 00:19:20.920 Liz Fleming: Their attention span is like bananas short, but

172 00:19:21.940 --> 00:19:28.359 Liz Fleming: it taught us all patience most of all, it taught us the power in

173 00:19:29.080 --> 00:19:40.710 Liz Fleming: being in the present moment. I think I've said this in a previous episode like a butterfly or a caterpillar. A caterpillar never thinks about like what kind of butterfly it's going to be. It just becomes one.

174 00:19:41.290 --> 00:19:44.019 Liz Fleming: And there were so many little

175 00:19:45.040 --> 00:20:02.000 Liz Fleming: treasures like that little little gifts that just popped into my brain as I was observing all of this, and I know for a fact, I'm not the same person I was when I picked up those little, the little caterpillars, those little butterflies. I'm not the same person I was yesterday last week

176 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:20.779 Liz Fleming: last month last year. So much is changing all of the time, and watching these beauties go through an expedited version of that was so grounding and so healing, and so beautiful, and needed just a really beautiful reminder to

177 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.919 Liz Fleming: be present, to take your time

178 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:30.380 Liz Fleming: and let yourself evolve and adapt to change.

179 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:33.580 Liz Fleming: because it's always going to be there.

180 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:39.060 Liz Fleming: It is always going to be there. These this experience taught me.

181 00:20:40.750 --> 00:20:45.210 Liz Fleming: you know, just kind of reaffirmed for me that, like we're surrounded by miracles.

182 00:20:45.850 --> 00:20:51.889 Liz Fleming: you know, and miracles are subjective too, like to me. A butterfly emerging from a chrysalis is a Goddamn miracle.

183 00:20:52.100 --> 00:20:56.480 Liz Fleming: but to you it's like, whatever you know, nature is nature again.

184 00:20:56.840 --> 00:21:00.160 Liz Fleming: in our own way we're surrounded by miracles, and

185 00:21:00.900 --> 00:21:08.210 Liz Fleming: when we stop and we open our eyes and our hearts to them all, and we stay curious. We stay open and honest

186 00:21:08.700 --> 00:21:16.359 Liz Fleming: with ourselves. We can have these beautiful transformations ourselves. And just because we

187 00:21:16.700 --> 00:21:41.890 Liz Fleming: proactively and consciously choose to stop or to pause does not mean that we're failing. It doesn't mean we're giving up. It doesn't mean we're slowing down. It means we're finally taking ourselves seriously. We're finally taking back our power. We're finally taking control of our lives. And that felt really aligned for me in this moment. And it was so needed after the year that I've had.

188 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:48.990 Liz Fleming: You know we're we're now well into June 2025 is officially half over.

189 00:21:49.910 --> 00:21:53.299 Liz Fleming: but the second half is just beginning. So

190 00:21:53.530 --> 00:21:56.239 Liz Fleming: what I encourage all of you to do.

191 00:21:56.530 --> 00:22:05.759 Liz Fleming: if you haven't yet this year is just to sit and reflect on how you can pause.

192 00:22:07.620 --> 00:22:13.820 Liz Fleming: and how that's going to serve you, what boundaries you can set.

193 00:22:14.780 --> 00:22:18.570 Liz Fleming: that are going to help you live a more fulfilling and joyful life.

194 00:22:20.670 --> 00:22:29.200 Liz Fleming: where you feel like you are in control. You are standing in your power versus you, living reactively

195 00:22:29.320 --> 00:22:35.479 Liz Fleming: and just monotonously going through routines because you're so used to them. You're so primed to them.

196 00:22:36.860 --> 00:22:44.970 Liz Fleming: I want you to ask yourself, is what I'm doing today, me maintaining my past.

197 00:22:45.450 --> 00:22:50.729 Liz Fleming: or is it helping me nourish my present

198 00:22:51.060 --> 00:22:53.500 Liz Fleming: so I can have a more fulfilling future.

199 00:22:54.620 --> 00:22:57.919 Liz Fleming: Those are all the questions I want you to consider.

200 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:12.900 Liz Fleming: If you ever get the chance to witness the whole butterfly life cycle thing in person, whether it's 1 on one with your kids, your partner, whoever your best friend.

201 00:23:13.370 --> 00:23:14.370 Liz Fleming: do it.

202 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:27.299 Liz Fleming: it will ground you in a way unlike any other. It is so cool, and you know it just sounds so ridiculous like I've I've had kids, I've like, you know, I've seen other things that are

203 00:23:27.740 --> 00:23:31.029 Liz Fleming: a little more jaw dropping take place. But this was.

204 00:23:31.330 --> 00:23:33.049 Liz Fleming: I don't know. It hit different.

205 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:38.199 Liz Fleming: and I'll just leave it at that, so I hope that this is

206 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:45.539 Liz Fleming: resonated with you my little butterfly episode. It was one I've been wanting to share. But I you know

207 00:23:46.790 --> 00:23:52.990 Liz Fleming: I don't know. I think I needed the process to complete before I

208 00:23:53.850 --> 00:23:56.459 Liz Fleming: had my Aha moment, you know.

209 00:23:56.660 --> 00:24:01.699 Liz Fleming: And yeah, it was very emotional. It was really cool. And

210 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:07.170 Liz Fleming: what a learning experience all the way around. And

211 00:24:07.570 --> 00:24:12.029 Liz Fleming: again, just a reminder of of how powerful patience is.

212 00:24:12.230 --> 00:24:18.789 Liz Fleming: You know, I used to have these days. I mean, I still do where I

213 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:30.009 Liz Fleming: I'm longing for. What's the next thing I should be doing something I need to be doing, doing doing. I need to make money. I can't just sit around like, where's the money coming from? Where's my passion coming from?

214 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.010 Liz Fleming: How are my vision board dreams gonna come true, and I'll

215 00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:50.860 Liz Fleming: clutch the crystals, and I'll put on the oils, and I'll do the incense and the smudging, and I'll lay out all the oracle decks, and I'll just like will an answer into existence. And I have this awareness that when I come from that place of desperation it's just another reminder. Take a step back.

216 00:24:51.090 --> 00:24:52.280 Liz Fleming: and

217 00:24:53.630 --> 00:25:00.160 Liz Fleming: I've talked about this in so many episodes, almost everyone, but having that sense of self-awareness is going to set you free.

218 00:25:00.590 --> 00:25:07.379 Liz Fleming: That doesn't mean it's going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it every single time. So I encourage you today

219 00:25:07.490 --> 00:25:09.329 Liz Fleming: after you have this, listen, and

220 00:25:09.450 --> 00:25:12.823 Liz Fleming: you're with yourself wherever you are in solitude.

221 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:26.620 Liz Fleming: journal on it, journal it out, and see what comes up for you. It may not come right in the moment it may require. You get out of your head, and wherever you need to be to stimulate that beautiful noggin of yours.

222 00:25:26.990 --> 00:25:36.560 Liz Fleming: walking, dancing, music, yoga, meditation, breathwork, whatever that thing is for you, and let it arrive.

223 00:25:36.910 --> 00:25:44.030 Liz Fleming: Don't desperately just fiend for it. Come on, send it, send it down! Send me the thought.

224 00:25:45.010 --> 00:25:47.960 Liz Fleming: just let it be, let it arrive.

225 00:25:48.570 --> 00:25:50.469 Liz Fleming: and then do something with it.

226 00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:59.119 Liz Fleming: and most oftentimes that doing that action is simply stopping and taking a breath.

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