Hey friends, it's Rosie.
Welcome to Radio Headspace.
The other day I got a text from a dear friend,
one of those soulful, wildly talented women working in the entertainment industry.
She's been grinding for years, finally hit a stride, and then, boom, laid off, just like that.
She texted me something I hadn't been able to stop thinking about.
She said, I feel like I was just about to become who I was meant to be, and now I'm nothing again.
It hit me hard, not just because I love her, but because I've been there.
That moment when the ground falls out beneath you and everything you thought you were building feels
like it slipped through your hands.
I sat with that text for a while and then I wrote back, you're not nothing.
You're in the cocoon.
We talk a lot about transformation like it's this beautiful, empowered, boss-level moment.
Like we're supposed to feel radiant and ready the whole time.
But the truth?
Growth doesn't always feel like growth.
Sometimes it feels like loss.
Sometimes it feels like stillness.
Sometimes it feels like nothing.
But nothing is never nothing.