If you are committed to growth, you know about cocooning. True growth involves transformation, which sometimes requires us to go within in order to regenerate.

Several weeks ago I went into cocooning mode. I had very little interest in going out or even answering my phone. From the outside it looked like depression, but I knew better. Rather than fighting the urge to spend countless hours on my couch watching movies, I went with it. (By the way if you haven't seen Dreamgirls, it's a must see!)

Last Saturday morning I emerged from the cocoon renewed, I joked with my sisters that I got my mojo back:) After days of not doing any work beyond necessities, I put together a new workshop and wrote an article all in one morning.

Whether you call it ebb and flow or yin and yang, honoring your natural rhythms is key to ongoing growth. The idea of growth happening in a straight line is not accurate, it's more of an upward spiral - or as I like to visualize it - an inward spiral with a star at the center.