What if Stillness Is the Point?

We live in a world that rewards movement. Go, do, fix, hustle, cope. Even when life hands us loss—or profound change—we rush to “stay busy.” To clean closets. Reorganize a life. Find the next thing.

I’ve done it too.

There have been times in my life when the quiet felt unbearable. So I filled it. With work. With noise. With anything that kept me from feeling the stillness.

But here’s what I’ve come to understand, slowly and stubbornly:

Stillness isn’t failure. It’s healing in disguise.

The universe isn’t always asking us to move forward. Sometimes it’s asking us to pause long enough to feel what’s really happening, and to

sit with the aftershocks. To listen for what’s next, without rushing to answer.

The pause is uncomfortable because it’s powerful. And if you’re in one now… You don’t need to escape it. You’re not behind. You’re not broken. You’re in the middle of something sacred.

Let the stillness do what it came to do, even if it’s just to teach you how to sit with yourself again.