FS Extra 👣 Feel peaceful when life won’t stay still
Published: Mon, 10/20/25
Updated: Mon, 10/20/25
We like to think change will slow down eventually. After this job, this move, this global shake-up, we’ll finally get to rest.
Change doesn’t pause. It only changes shape.
That might sound exhausting until you realise something powerful.
Peace isn’t found after change. It’s found inside it.
Stay grounded when everything around you changes
The trick is not to conquer change, it's to move with it.
When you stop fighting for the world to stay still, you stop losing energy to what you can’t control. That energy can then be used to create, learn and connect.
In truth, change has never been the problem.
It’s our resistance to it, the clinging to how things “should” be, that causes pain.
Think back on any major shift in your life.
A job that ended, a relationship that changed, a world event that shook your certainty.
How many of those experiences, painful as they were, later revealed a hidden benefit, new insight, new strength or even a new direction you wouldn’t trade for the old one?
That’s the real gift of learning to live in harmony with change.
It doesn’t erase uncertainty. It gives you balance within it.
Discover how to stay centred while everything around you shifts.
Move with change instead of against it
The world is changing faster than ever, socially, locally, globally.
Yet adaptability isn’t about being endlessly positive. It’s about staying curious, grounded and useful no matter what happens next.
It’s about having the confidence to say, “Whatever this is, I’ll meet it with grace".
When we approach life that way, the unknown stops feeling like a threat. It starts feeling like participation.
We become active players in our own unfolding story, rather than reluctant passengers.
Does that kind of calm resilience sound like something you’d like to grow?
Adapt gracefully when life shifts direction
Change isn’t going anywhere. Neither is your ability to find meaning within it.
The more you practise that art, the lighter life feels, not because it gets easier, however because you do.
View and share a few past emails here
See you again soon.
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Change doesn’t pause. It only changes shape.
That might sound exhausting until you realise something powerful.
Peace isn’t found after change. It’s found inside it.
Stay grounded when everything around you changes
The trick is not to conquer change, it's to move with it.
When you stop fighting for the world to stay still, you stop losing energy to what you can’t control. That energy can then be used to create, learn and connect.
In truth, change has never been the problem.
It’s our resistance to it, the clinging to how things “should” be, that causes pain.
Think back on any major shift in your life.
A job that ended, a relationship that changed, a world event that shook your certainty.
How many of those experiences, painful as they were, later revealed a hidden benefit, new insight, new strength or even a new direction you wouldn’t trade for the old one?
That’s the real gift of learning to live in harmony with change.
It doesn’t erase uncertainty. It gives you balance within it.
Discover how to stay centred while everything around you shifts.
Move with change instead of against it
The world is changing faster than ever, socially, locally, globally.
Yet adaptability isn’t about being endlessly positive. It’s about staying curious, grounded and useful no matter what happens next.
It’s about having the confidence to say, “Whatever this is, I’ll meet it with grace".
When we approach life that way, the unknown stops feeling like a threat. It starts feeling like participation.
We become active players in our own unfolding story, rather than reluctant passengers.
Does that kind of calm resilience sound like something you’d like to grow?
Adapt gracefully when life shifts direction
Change isn’t going anywhere. Neither is your ability to find meaning within it.
The more you practise that art, the lighter life feels, not because it gets easier, however because you do.
View and share a few past emails here
See you again soon.
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