What Spring Asks of Us
Why you’ve been feeling restless, uncomfortable, or ready to start over and what it might actually mean
Have you ever felt the urge to purge your whole closet? Move away from home and start all over in a new city? Quit your job and join a group of grandmas knitting in a park together daily?
That is the energy of spring.
But it’s not just starting a new project, job, or hobby that this season asks of us.
It’s the subtle nudge to heal an old wound.
The thoughts that keep popping up in your mind:
“Do I always externally process my emotions?”
“Have I stayed in this place just because it’s what I’ve always known?”
With each season, it’s something different, I’ve noticed. What to let go of in the fall, what to hold space for in winter. And what to let bloom in spring.
I think after winter, there is this question that often comes up for me:
Where am I resisting change? What am I still holding that isn’t mine to carry?
We need to remember that we, too, are in bloom. And just like nature we can’t hold back our own growth.
I was talking to a friend recently about the death of our old selves and choosing growth. How we have to keep choosing the uncomfortable path instead of the ‘safe’ one (something I feel I’ve done over and over the past year).
And how hard it can be to truly lose the old identities we carry. It reminded me that it’s easier to think of it as alignment vs. comfort instead of “safety vs. what’s right”.
If I wrote out a list of all the things that felt comfortable in my life, there would undoubtably be a few that don’t actually align with my highest self or the direction I want to go.
Staying in California, where I’d lived my whole life, felt really comfortable but didn’t align with the vision I had for myself to explore beyond.
It feels really comfortable for me to always talk about how I’m feeling out loud immediately. To externally process everything as it comes up.
But does that actually align with my higher self?
What would it look like if I gave my loved ones more room to process their emotions with me… and if I gave myself that same space first?
My higher self would sit in silence, connect with her breath, take a minute to meditate, journal or pray about what she’s feeling. And then go to her partner or friend from a grounded place, asking if they have space to hold these emotions.
This is just a personal example from my life… and the reason this article idea came up. Because in these moments of questioning my inner world, I realized maybe that is what spring asks of us.
It asks us to notice where we can become anew. To notice where we’ve been choosing what’s comfortable over what’s aligned. To get curious about the patterns that once kept us safe (and give those parts of us love, too).
It asks us to question if these parts of us still belong and trust that the uncomfortable shifts are part of something in motion. Something blooming.
And sometimes it asks us to push through the cracks of the concrete and rise exactly where you are. Without waiting for the right time, right place or right circumstances to show up exactly as you are.
I’ve always loved this idea of nature pushing through mans’ creation. It doesn’t matter how much concrete we lay down, it seems to find its way through. Or at least I love noticing where it does.
It reminds me how resilient nature is and how we, too, are nature. We can choose to rise despite our circumstances. To rise in a place we feel we don’t exactly ‘belong’. To be our most authentic selves, no matter what.
Because just like nature, we don’t have to force our growth . . we can just allow it.
And that really is the good news. 🫶🏼
So what is spring asking of you?
What wants to bloom inside of you?
Where are you being asked to lean into discomfort?
I would genuinely love to hear your thoughts if you read this. We’re never alone in our struggle or our celebration.
Stay Lighthearted,
Chelsey
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