Busyness can be a management strategy to get through the days without having to feel the unresolved feelings living in our bodies as pain, grief, loss, anger, fear or anxiety. I did this for several decades. When exhaustion caught up with me, it came in the form of loss – the house, the job, the relationship, friends. They all moved out and moved on from me leaving me with an unusual amount of down time. When I made the choice (albeit by having been forced to by the removal of all the things and people I kept myself distracted with) to sit with the emptiness instead of filling it, things in my life began to shift. And they shifted in such a way that allowed me time and space to explore all the things I had been running from. That exploration led me to a freedom and joy I had never known before. Thank you, Universe for doing for me what I was to fearful of doing for myself. 😘