There are moments when we can feel ourselves pushing past our limits…
The day fills up before we’ve had a moment to breathe. We keep going ~ giving, responding, holding what’s needed ~ telling ourselves we’ll rest later. Just not yet.
From the outside, it can look like resilience.
But inside, something else is often happening. A quiet depletion. A borrowing from tomorrow to get through today. A sense that no matter how much we give… it never quite settles.
You may recognize something here. Not as a concept, but as a pattern you’ve been living inside. The pull to keep going. The gap between what you know and how you’re living. The sense that another way might be possible… even if it’s not fully clear yet.
In this conversation with executive coach Catherine Morisset, something begins to come into view. Not as something dramatic or a new idea to adopt, but as a different way of seeing what’s already here.
Resilience, as I’m learning through this conversation, is not simply endurance. It’s more like an ongoing relationship with reality. Starting with where we are and working with what is already present ~ our time, our energy, our capacity ~ rather than reaching toward an ideal that keeps moving just out of reach.
This conversation doesn’t offer a better plan. It brings us back to things we may already know, but don’t always live. The difference between patience and passivity. The quiet importance of reasonableness. A kind of gentle honesty as we learn, again and again, how to live into what matters.
Rather than offering a recipe for a perfect life, it invites us to begin closer in: What can I do with what I have?
🎧 Listen to the episode above.
📜 Read the full transcript here ➚
For those who feel drawn to Catherine’s work,
you can find more at Imagine Plus Solutions.
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If you’d like a quiet way to stay in contact with what’s unfolding ~ I share occasional notes from the edge of the work. Small signals, patterns, and questions as they emerge. Notes from Laureen is a place to stand at the shoreline…and sense what’s moving across the waters.
