The Benefit of Taking a Fallow Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIaUshZVaBM

Summary:

This podcast describes the importance of taking a fallow period to recalibrate life and what that journey looked like for one woman.

Key Points:

• A fallow period in agriculture is when farmers do not replant their fields so that the ecosystem can rest. 

• Similarly, when we take a fallow period personally, we can stop to reconsider who we are and what we want in our life.

• Taking a fallow period can be beneficial at any time in a woman’s life.

• The need for a fallow period can be signaled by somatic responses in a woman’s body, such as having a gut feeling, overwhelming exhaustion or a feeling of depression.

• While this period can be disorienting, therapy and honest conversations with a partner can help clarify how to make choices.

• Women’s fallow periods can be a radical recalibration in which our focus moves to our internal world instead of external exploration.

• Reading, journaling and other forms of introspective exploration can be beneficial during this time.

Featured:

• Jill Penaloza, who is a licensed art psychotherapist and a Sheng Zhen Meditation teacher.

• Dorian Martin, who is the founder of I Start Wondering and a Sheng Zhen Meditation teacher.

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