What is calling to me this summer season?

A powerful prompt to take stock at the midway point 🌊 ☀️🌙

Hello you!

During my membership journaling session on Sunday, I joined in (as ever) with the prompts that I created for the group.

We were doing some mid year point thinking and journaling. The first prompt was reflective, the final prompt was about the way forwards and the mid prompt was the title of this piece, ‘what is calling to m this summer season?’. Inviting members to pause and think about what they felt called to in the here and now.

I’d put the prompts together a few days before and given them no further thoughts from my own perspective and so what came out, as so often happens when I journal, was just exactly hat needed to without overthinking…

Here’s what I wrote:

I feel called to rest. I feel called to slow down and to try to enjoy summer rather than just endure it. I feel called to be realistic about this. I am not a summer person, I do not need to try and turn myself into one. But maybe summer could be more than something to get done with.

I crave time offline. Time away from screens. Not just the two weeks of holiday time I have planned, but in the other weeks of summer too. I’d like to stop constantly wanting this and start getting it.

I feel called to get other people’s voices and opinions out of my head. I want to hear my own thoughts and ideas, my words. I know they are in there, that they can be allowed more air, space, breath. That they are good and good enough.

I feel called to be more present, to really BE with people, to notice them. To allow myself to be curious about the people stood in front of me, not on the other side of screens. I want to give them my time, attention and love.

I want to be more present with myself. To notice myself more. To observe my own feelings, my dreams, what feels important to me. To witness myself and think, hmmm… that’s interesting.

I feel called to be more ALIVE.

I want some sensory pleasures too, wind in my face and hair, sun on my skin (but not too much), I want to plodge, paddle, sit on grass, smell flowers, coffee, the dusk. Hear birds. Feel sand in between by toes. Watch sunsets.

I feel called to write. To read, yes, but read DEEPLY. To ‘create more than I consume’.

I want to swim in my own boundless creativity.

What is calling you this summer? Grab a notebook and pen and take 10 mins to explore this prompt, you’ll be glad you did.

With love,

Sarah x

PS The next journaling session is Sunday 21 July at 7pm UK time. If you’d like to come along, join my membership by upgrading to paid.

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If you’re already a member, thank you and I hope to see you there! And thanks for your support which allows me in turn to offer support.

PPS if you want some inspo for summer revelling, read this from

Aimée Francis

. Delicious. I really want an iced coffee and a grilled peach and I ant them NOW!

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