The Shape of the Space I Did Not Know I Needed

About this episode

Monika explores the profound impact of taking time and space for oneself, reflecting on her personal journey of self-discovery and care.

What happens when you leave space for yourself? You don’t do it in just one day that you cross off the calendar and cancel your appointments, so you decide to go out for a walk and keep walking the whole day without caring about the things that you’re leaving behind. No. I mean something more profound than that. What happens if you take time and space for that part of yourself that didn’t even know it needed that space? It needed that time. What happens? Something marvelous happens. It feels like the space was there when I stopped rushing for my phone so I could check on people I care about, sending them things. I was not engaged with that anymore; I decided to disengage completely from my caring side to see what would happen to Monika when she’s not holding space for others and allows her own space to speak. Over the last year, this happened to me, and I was finally integrating it, and it’s such a beautiful feeling that I’m at a loss for words, although I need those words because I’m finally putting together the whole process that went from me walking and talking to myself, realizing I had a structure that I wanted to follow. Then I allowed that structure to form a kind of…

People in this episode

Host: Monika

Topics covered

• self-care
• personal space
• mindfulness
• reflection
• spiritual growth

Keywords

• self-discovery
• mindfulness
• personal growth
• self-care
• reflection

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