When Nothing Seems to Shift
There are seasons on the path when it feels like nothing is moving. You’re doing the work. You’re showing up to yourself. You’re calling on your supports. You’re digging into every layer you can find. And yet, the days pass, one after another, with the same heaviness, the same flavor of misery. Sometimes you wonder if the universe could at least hand you a different flavor of misery - i.e. can I have some chocolate instead of vanilla??
And still, some quiet part of you knows: it will change. That whisper inside keeps you going, even when your outer self feels crushed by the weight of nothing shifting.
So you keep plunging in - another day of presence, another day of kindness toward yourself, another day of reaching for the hands that hold you steady. Another day of trusting, even when trust feels like the most fragile thing you have left.
And then the next day comes. And the next. And you think: really? Still this? Can I make it through another day of this?
Holding On, Letting Go
These times of no shift can be awful. They can be grueling. They test whether you can outlast your own patterns of suffering. And yet, with every day you stay, you are building the endurance not just to survive, but to transform.
The question is never “Will this change?”—it always does. The question is: Can I stay present long enough for my truth to emerge? And when you do, the shift comes. Sometimes suddenly, sometimes quietly. But always, it comes.
Because you are worth it. Because your liberation matters. Because you already hold the answers inside.
The Illusion of Stagnation
What looks like stagnation is often the process of deeper truths being brought into light. Consciousness works in layers. At first, you move through one level of your pain, and there is some relief. But then a deeper layer emerges, one that has not yet been presenced. This is not punishment. This is life’s way of inviting you closer to the core of your truth.
From the outside, it may look like or feel like nothing is happening. Inside, however, the grip of old knots of distortion and fear are loosening. This type of pain sharpens, as we go through our journey, because we are getting closer to the wound that formed the distortion in the first place.
So the work deepens. And paradoxically, it is in the very act of staying with what feels immovable that movement begins to take root.
The Temptation to Retreat
There are always two options when you reach this threshold: to retreat or to stay. Retreating simply postpones the inevitable; the same lesson, the same wound, will return at another time, often with greater intensity.
Choosing to stay - choosing to feel the misery and as if nothing is changing - is what builds resilience, trust, and the capacity to birth genuine transformation. The part of you that resists reality falling apart, so that a new truth can emerge.
This isn’t about heroics. It’s about a quiet, steadfast willingness: I will not turn away from myself. Not this time.
Following Intuition
When strategies and clever fixes don’t work, listening to our inner knowing becomes essential. The higher self always knows the way through, but the mind, which can be filled with fear, impatience, and demand, often obscures it. Your mind may kick in with doubts and uncertainties, and yet when you take even one step toward alignment with your inner knowing, the next step often reveals itself.
Surrender into the truth that you already carry the seeds of freedom inside you.
Liberation Through Endurance
Some of us were born into a degree of internal torture that seems impossible to explain. Many sections of spirituality explain this by saying some souls come into this lifetime to do “the work” and to take on heavier burdens, not to suffer endlessly, but to carve a path of liberation that radiates outward. Every layer you meet, every so-called stagnant day you endure, is chiseling away at the false structures within you.
The more we face, the more freedom opens. Freedom not as escape, but as the capacity to live in truth, clarity, and love.