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The Season of Letting Go: From Performing to Being

A gentle reflection on retiring, healing and moving from performing to being—finding rest, creativity and courage in a season of letting go.   At the Start of 2025: Building Momentum A year ago, at the start of 2025, everything felt possible. I had just launched Adelaide Document Processing, a little home-based typing service, five months earlier and upon returning to work in January after the Christmas holidays, I welcomed my first th ree clients. I was approaching twelve months of volunteering in Spiritual Care at a local residential care facility, attending my late Mum’s Uniting Church congregation and enjoying the rhythm of activities with the  Wise Owls  over-fi fties community of Nazareth Catholic College. It felt like I was finally building something steady.   When Momentum Unravelled: Letting Go of Performing After Easter something shifted. I crashed—emotionally, physically, spiritually—and...

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