The suck of STUCK!

Recently, in a client session I heard the same word coming through over and over. 

It’s one that I hear often when it comes to career paths. 

A word that prompts driven humans to seek me out. 

Let’s just get it out of our systems. 

Stuck. Stuck. Stuck. Stuck. Stuck. 

There, you said it. Now, let’s talk about how you’re really feeling. The feelings behind stuck. 

Frustrated that you haven’t figured out what you want to be when you grow up. 

Angry that the situation you thought would be a fit, isn’t what it seemed. 

Shame that you don’t feel as far along as your peers. 

Overwhelm with options and tactics and opinions and oh so many terrible job descriptions. 

Fear that the right thing isn’t out there for you. 

You may be feeling all of these things and yes, you also may be feeling stuck. 

But that doesn’t mean you are. 

Often people use the word stuck when they don’t yet have the answer. 

When they’re anxious about sitting in the uncertainty. 

And yet, it’s in the permission to keep moving in the uncertainty and getting out of your routines and experimenting and taking risks even when you don’t know the answers — that you will find your answers. 

It’s in the forward movement. 

In the trust of your intuition.

It’s in the belief that you are on your path to figuring something out. That it may not be perfect or the one dreamiest dream jobbiest next step. But it is worth trying if it matches your terms and you feel that physical pull of energy toward this inevitability. 

So, the next time you feel the inertia–the suck of stuck–I invite you to use this stuck releaser:

I'm on my path.
I don’t yet have the answers and that's OK.
I trust my inner wisdom and I will find them.

The more you allow yourself to feel the actual feelings behind your inertia and begin taking action without knowing the outcome, you are practicing self-trust and building momentum toward your career goals. 

Sending you energy and support and a path to rise from the stuck.