It's ok...

to take a break

Dear readers and subscribers, I am writing to let you know that I am taking a short sabbatical, and I will be resuming articles sometime around June ‘26.

I enjoy writing these weekly articles and had planned to write and schedule substacks for this period, so there would be no gaps in published articles. But to adapt a familiar saying,

“Woman plans, and God laughs.”

Life it seems has other ideas!

So, I hope you will forgive the gap, you may not have even noticed if I hadn’t said anything I know, but I’d like to hope, that you might miss me a teeny-weeny bit and look forward to my return to substack in the Summer.

There’s a lot going on for me at the moment, and so it is with self-care in mind that I decided to take a longer sabbatical than initially planned, to give myself some space to work through some stuff and to recoup my energy. I could have tried to carry on (my mind wanted to push through) but as my dark night of the soul reminded me recently, it is better to consciously choose your life than allow it to be lead by others.

I have had to tell myself repeatedly that it’s ok to take a break. Carrying on in spite of the signs that your mind, body and spirit need a break is a very old masculine model that doesn’t work for men nor women, but we’re all indoctrinated by it. So, by admitting that I need to take a break, it’s not an act of defeat, it’s an act of defiance to the masculine model that says to me that I don’t deserve it. Whether I deserve it or not, I need it, so it’s happening!

On my return to writing, I suspect that you may start to notice a change in me, my writing and the SLC.

I have been doing quite a bit of soul searching recently and will continue to do so during my sabbatical. I can sense a shift happening, what that shift will be, is still mysterious and remains to find a form. These things require spaciousness and time, so I bid you farewell for a short while, whilst new things form and emerge.

Like all good tv shows, I’ll leave you on this cliff hanger til my return.

(It’s a cliff hanger for me too, I have no idea where the plot is going to go either!)

In the meantime, I hope life treats both you and me, gently!

Until the Summer,

Sharon

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