Hello, my Seekers of Sanity,
It’s graduation season—and not just for students.
All around me, people are wrestling with the energy of change:
🌱 Spring fever.
🧳 Summer travel planning.
🧒 Kids bouncing off the walls.
🧠 Work still demanding full focus.
It’s a restless season—your energy wants to shift, but your calendar hasn’t caught up. This is where burnout begins if we forget to pause.
So I’ve been asking myself:
“What am I graduating from?”
“What season am I truly in?”
Transitions aren’t just marked by diplomas.
They happen quietly: in choices, endings, shifts in attention.
This week’s tools are here to help you meet the shift—mindfully, honestly, and with compassion.
This Week’s Tiny Sparks of Sanity ✨
Small ways to stay grounded, mindful, and present this week:
🧠 Authentic Leadership Tip: Name Your Season
Why it matters:
You lead best when your energy matches your moment.
Trying to “push through” spring’s distractions with winter’s intensity only creates frustration.
How to practice:
First, name your current “season” in 3 words. (e.g. wrapping up, recalibrating, softening)
Then look at your schedule, to-do list, or team goals—what can be dialed down just a notch?
Example:
Instead of trying to launch something new right before Memorial Day, focus on wrapping up what’s already in motion.
Or: if you’re leading a team, acknowledge the collective spring energy and frame this month as a maintenance + reflection phase rather than peak output.
✨ Alignment isn’t laziness. It’s wise leadership that honors reality.
🧘 Yoga Pose of the Week: Seated Forward Fold (Paschimottanasana)
Why it matters:
This gentle fold balances spring’s upward energy with introspection.
How to practice:
Sit tall with legs extended. Hinge at the hips and fold forward.
Breathe into the back body. Let the pose be less about reaching—and more about softening.
✨ A shape of surrender can also be a shape of power.
🌿 Mindfulness Practice: Notice What’s Pulling You
Why it matters:
Restlessness is subtle. It often shows up before we realize we’ve been pulled off center.
But when you can catch the moment early, you have a choice.
How to practice:
Start by noticing the signs of distraction:
You’re toggling between tabs… reaching for your phone… rereading the same email… staring into the fridge…Pause. Take a breath. Ask yourself:
“What’s pulling me right now?”Then ask:
“Do I want to follow it, or return to center?”
✨ You don’t have to fight the urge—just notice it, name it, and choose with awareness.
🍎 Wellness Tidbit: Schedule Joy Like Work
Why it matters:
Joy doesn’t always “fit in” around the edges. Sometimes it has to be blocked like a meeting.
How to practice:
Pick one joyful, nonproductive thing (a walk, a book, a chat, the sun).
Put it in your calendar. Honor it like a client.
✨ You are not a machine. You’re a whole human.
🌸 This Week’s Delight:
Peony buds—favored in Tibetan art, slow to open, full of promise.
A reminder that beauty unfolds on its own timeline.
Not rushed. Not forced. Just quietly becoming.
Delightfully,
Lena