🎉Welcome February🎉
Feb 03, 2026
Welcome to February!
Let’s talk about Discomfort
Here we are.
New month. Quieter energy.
We’ve made it through January’s New Year, New Me enthusiasm to February. We’re practicing our water rhythm.
Three times a day, with our meals, or when we see a water source, we fill our water glass, Yeti, or cup, whatever vessel you love.
As the water rises, we pause and wonder…How is my life full in the best possible ways?
So, go ahead get your water and sip it while we talk about something we’d all like to avoid.
Discomfort.
How much time, energy, and other resources do we spend trying to dodge discomfort? If you’re like the women I coach, including myself, the answer is: quite a bit.
Sometimes we experience what I call resistance discomfort. That’s discomfort from our thoughts: people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination, the shoulds. They are loud, obnoxious, and discouraging.
Other times we experience capacity discomfort. This one comes from real-life limitations: time, energy, money, margin. There are only so many hours and so much bandwidth.
Honestly?
I feel a little uncomfortable even writing about this.
Can we stop now?
Well, that’s kind of the point.
Somewhere along the way, we picked up the idea that discomfort is bad. It means something is wrong. It’s something to be eliminated and fixed as quickly as possible.
Many of my clients sign up for life coaching because of discomfort. They want to learn how to avoid it.
At the risk of being the worst advertisement for what I love to do…
Discomfort is a part of life.
There’s no secret workaround I can give you.
I don’t have one.
Neither do you.
I think the best we can do it to understand discomfort better.
Let’s use our water rhythm as a low-stakes experiment.
I’m asking you to drink water.
To do that, you have to navigate a little discomfort:
- You have to remember.
- You have to stop what you are doing and fill your cup or go to the bathroom.
- You have to take a sip even when you’re rather have…Diet Dr. Pepper.
And…not drinking water is also uncomfortable.
- Lethargy
- Headaches.
- Brain fog.
Neither path is free of discomfort.
But one choice leads to the life you want and the other leads you away from it.
The discomfort we allow determines the direction our life goes.
Not starting a business…discomfort.
Starting a business…discomfort.
Not losing the weight…discomfort
Losing the weight…discomfort.
Not decluttering the house…discomfort.
Decluttering the house…discomfort.
Is that fair?
Maybe not.
And even that thought is uncomfortable, which brings us back to where we started.
Discomfort isn’t optional.
So what’s the point?
The point is not all discomfort is equal.
One kind grows our love, courage, capacity. The other grows our fear and discouragement
What if you started asking, which discomfort am I choosing and where is it taking me?
What if you became curious about your discomfort instead of trying to avoid it?
What if you let it point you toward the path you actually want to walk?
So tell me…
What discomfort do you need to allow in order to become the woman you want to be and build the life you want to live?
Hit reply and let me know so I can cheer you on,
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