🌳 Embracing The Cycles: A Tree’s Wisdom on Fear 🌳

Business Foundation Skills, Get Out Of Your Own Way, Strategic Planning

Do you find yourself working through the cycles of life?

The other morning, I found myself walking through the park, my mind swirling with thoughts about the state of… well, everything. 

Can you relate? That undercurrent of fear that seems to be running through our collective consciousness right now?

For some of us, it’s this low-grade hum in the background. 

For others, it’s cranked up to full volume – blaring across everything from politics to the environment to “oh my god, is my business going to survive this month?!”

(And if you’re in that second category, I see you, and send love.)

For me, with my Dad in hospice these last few months, I’ve been in all the feels. 

As I walked, I found myself thinking about my college days as a religion major (yes, before I became the business strategist/intuitive hybrid you know today, I was diving deep into spiritual texts!).

Buddhism always felt so damn practical to me – here was Buddha, facing all the big scary things: death, aging, disease… the whole terrifying package.

And what did he do? Sat his butt down under a tree and found enlightenment. (If only it were that simple for the rest of us, right?)

So there I was, walking through the park, when I decided: why not ask the trees?

(Yes, I literally asked a tree what I should feel. I regret nothing.)

I know, I know – if you’re new here, you might be thinking “Monica’s lost it.” 

But if you’ve been in my world for a while, you know this is exactly how I roll. Strategy meets intuition. Spreadsheets meet soul whispers.

I stood in front of this magnificent oak and asked: What’s under the fear? How do we find the joy that must exist beneath all this chaos?

And here’s where it gets interesting…

The tree showed me three distinct images:

The tree being cut down.

The tree burning.

The tree in its natural cycle – sprouting fresh leaves, turning vibrant green, shifting to fiery autumn reds and browns, then letting go as winter approached.

I felt it all – the pain, the fear, the resistance. But then something clicked.

The message was crystal clear:

 “Monica, you’re trying to hold on to everything so tightly. What you’re not seeing is that death is part of a cycle that you must not resist. The changes coming into your life are natural. Your fear is simply resistance to a natural cycle.” 

*Deep exhale*

Isn’t that what we do in business, too? We grip so tightly to:

• That strategy that worked before
• The client who’s outgrown us
• The offering that no longer lights us up
• The old version of ourselves that feels safe

The thing is – we all want control, especially when things feel unstable.
But trying to white-knuckle your way through change doesn’t make it stop. It just makes the fear worse.

But what if – just what if – the letting go is exactly where our freedom lives?

What if instead of resisting the death (of a season, a strategy, a version of ourselves), we trusted the cycle?

What if the “death” of one phase is simply making space for new growth?

What are you gripping too tightly right now? Where might you need to loosen your hold and trust the cycle?

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Comment below and let me know what’s coming up for you.

Here’s to embracing the whole damn cycle – the growth, the fullness, the release, and yes, even the emptiness that makes space for what’s next.