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Slowing Down, and Softening

  • Writer: Laura Hemmerling
    Laura Hemmerling
  • May 2
  • 2 min read

In a world that praises productivity, constant motion, and self-improvement, it’s easy to forget who we are underneath it all. We’re taught—often subtly, sometimes loudly—that we need to keep going, keep doing, keep striving. That rest is lazy. That stillness is unproductive. That we must push through to be enough.


But what if the truth is the opposite?


What if you were never meant to push? What if you were never broken, never behind, never lacking?

This is the heart of the work I do. I support people in remembering their original wholeness. In peeling back the layers of conditioning—those beliefs that whisper, you’re not doing enough, or you need to be more—so that they can reconnect with the quiet, rooted truth of who they are.


Underneath all the layers, there is a self that is soft, strong, and deeply attuned to the rhythms of life. This self doesn’t operate on the tight timelines of the modern world. It moves like nature does—slow, cyclical, shifting with the seasons, not against them.


There is no difference between you and the natural world. You are the forest, the ocean, the falling leaf, the blossoms and buds. You have seasons of growth and seasons of rest. You have tides and turning points. You are allowed to bloom, and you are allowed to be bare.


But because of our culture’s obsession with doing and achieving, we resist this natural rhythm. Our minds and nervous systems have been trained to believe that slowing down isn’t safe. That softening is a weakness. That witnessing, rather than fixing, is not enough.


And..I’ve seen the magic that unfolds when people slow down. When they stop trying to “fix” themselves and instead get curious. When they make space for the feelings, the desires, the parts of themselves they’ve hidden away. When they trust the seasons within.


I have a saying that "It’s simple, but it isn’t always easy". That’s why I walk beside people as they re-learn how to be. How to listen. How to trust the flow rather than resist it.


Authenticity isn’t something we create—it’s something we return to. It’s a remembering. A softening. A slowing down. And it’s already within you. Just waiting for you to to witness. To truly feel and see.





 
 
 

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