Loosening My Grip
What Can Happen When We Let Go
There’s a certain kind of magic in letting go. Not the kind where you toss your goals to the wind and hope they boomerang back. But the quiet kind. The kind that happens when you loosen your grip just enough to breathe again.
Along the journey of building my own business, I’ve had to learn this lesson more than once.
There were moments when I held so tightly to the fear of failure that it almost became a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’d clench around money stress, creative pressure, future uncertainty until I was wound so tight that nothing could flow. I’d lose sleep. Fumble opportunities. Feel the weight of a career built on reliability and expertise suddenly shift into something shaky and unfamiliar.
After all, with the exception of a handful of months, I’ve had a paycheck deposited into my account every month since I was 15 and a half years old. And then suddenly, here I was: marketing myself, billing clients, building something from scratch. It was disorienting to go from being an expert to being new at something again.
I had to practice what I preach:
Be curious.
Be open to change.
Lean into fear with compassion.
And, maybe most of all, I had to trust myself.
Trust that I had something real and valuable to offer. To coaching clients, to companies, to the world. And when I finally did? It was like the wind blew a little magic over me. Opportunities I couldn’t have dreamed up began to land gently in front of me. Not all at once. But steadily. Beautifully.
And yes, it meant letting go of certain ideas, saying no to things that weren’t aligned, being wrong more often than I liked. It meant creating boundaries and being willing to hold them.
But loosening my grip, holding things more lightly, created space. And in that space, the unexpected (and somehow exactly right) things had a place to land.
So…question for you, where are you gripping too tightly? What might happen if you loosen your hold just a little?
If I can help you loosen your grip, reach out.
xx,
Leah