Reflections

Weekly reflections from Wayfinder's Weekly - essays on navigating threshold seasons, transitions, and the messy middle between endings and beginnings.

Want longer form writing from me? Check out my two books: In Your End Is Your Beginning: A Memoir & Spiritual Wayfinding Manual and Hill Country Strong: Reflections for Healing Through the Texas Flood

Your Nervous System Has a Favorite
Elaine Murray Elaine Murray

Your Nervous System Has a Favorite

Here's something worth sitting with: your nervous system has a favorite. Not a substance, necessarily — but a pattern. A go-to. Something it reaches for, almost before you know you're reaching.

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When “I Don’t Know” Isn’t Working
Elaine Murray Elaine Murray

When “I Don’t Know” Isn’t Working

Someone asks "How are you doing?" or "What's next for you?" and your whole body tightens because you're so tired of those three words.

I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.

You've been patient. You've been sitting with it. You've been trusting that answers come in their own time.

And now you're tired. Tired of waiting. Tired of the fog. Tired of yourself for still being here.

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