Honouring Creative Seasons
A soulful reflection on creative pauses, personal evolution, and trusting the in-between
There are moments in everyone's journey where everything feels uncertain. The clarity you once carried has become foggy. The fire that once fuelled your creativity has dimmed. You question your direction, your desires, even your identity. But what if you're simply shifting? What if you're exactly where you need to be, even when things feel a little slower, a little uncertain?
What if you’re simply in between seasons?
In nature, there are no hard lines between autumn and winter, spring and summer. The transition is gradual. Flowers don’t bloom all at once. The shift in seasons happens in small, quiet ways, so that we barely notice each day. And yet, one season exists in contrast to the others.
Still, we often expect to move from triumph to triumph, inspiration to inspiration, creative breakthrough to creative breakthrough, without pause or resistance. We’ve been conditioned to believe that progress should be linear, that if we’re not moving forward, something must be wrong.
But the truth is: the space between is where some of the most sacred work happens.
This in-between space, this tender, undefined moment, isn’t a problem that needs to be fixed. It’s a sacred threshold. A space for gestation. Reflection. Stillness. It’s the place where deep inner work happens, whether we realise it or not. It’s in this space that we root down and ground ourselves before we rise again. It’s here that our soul whispers truths we may have been too busy to hear. And it’s here that we can reconnect with the deeper rhythms of our creative and spiritual life.
In the broader sense of life, this might look like:
Feeling directionless even when nothing external has changed
Craving solitude, but not knowing why
Letting go of old identities, roles, or goals that don’t seem to fit anymore
Being more emotional or sensitive without a clear cause or reason
Questioning the purpose behind your usual routines or ambitions
Creatively, this might look like:
Feeling uninspired or disconnected from your usual artistic flow
Being unable to finish projects you once felt passionate about
Feeling overwhelmed by too many ideas or not enough
Re-evaluating why you create, and for whom
Letting go of expectations around productivity or perfection
The beautiful truth is: these seasons often mirror each other. When you're growing personally, your creativity naturally shifts, expands, or pauses to catch up. And when you're in a creative lull, it may be your soul’s way of inviting deeper personal inquiry. One always informs the other. They dance together in a spiral, not a straight line.
To honour your cycles is to honour your humanity. To tend to your emotional landscape is to nourish your creative one. This duality isn’t a tension to solve, it’s a rhythm to soften into.
If you’re in a quieter season, know that this space has a purpose. It’s calling you to slow down and listen. To ground into your body. To soften into your breath. To remember your wholeness, even without the external clarity or validation. This is the time to gently unplug from outside noise and tune back inwards. To honour what is rising within you, even if you can’t yet name it.
This is a season of becoming.
Instead of pushing through, can you honour this time? Can you let it be what it is, without trying to label it or rush it? Can you give yourself permission to rest, to be unproductive, to wander without answers? The soul doesn’t work on deadlines. Creativity doesn’t thrive in pressure. And your worth was never tied to how much you produce.
This in-between is a creative cocoon. One that holds unseen shifts. Energetic upgrades. Emotional integration. It’s where your roots strengthen below the surface, so that when the time comes, you can rise with more stability, purpose, and grace.
Your path hasn’t ended. Creativity hasn’t disappeared. Your soul hasn’t gone quiet. You’re just being prepared for the next phase. Like a seed underground, something beautiful is happening where no one can see. It takes courage to trust this process. To allow what feels like stillness to be enough. But trust me, something is stirring. And when it’s time, you’ll know.
I used to get uncomfortable and fidgety in these lulls myself, but more and more I’m learning to trust the timing of my path, and I understand more than ever that breakthroughs don’t always come from pushing harder and doing more, they come from honouring the pauses and quiet shifts in energy. The times I am called away from finishing one creative project so that I can focus on another (business creativity v. art creativity is a big balancing act for me), or the times when I am called to rest more and invite in more stillness.
These quiet patches often precede the most powerful transformations. They’ve asked me to surrender. To stay curious. To nurture myself in ways I’d previously neglected. And every time I’ve softened into the stillness, the path has eventually revealed itself, often more beautifully and aligned than I could have imagined.
If this is where you find yourself, I want to remind you: there is nothing wrong with you. You are not behind. You are not failing. You are just between.
And in the between, magic brews. This is where your next chapter is writing itself.
An invitation to soul reflection:
What would shift if you allowed this in-between season to be sacred, rather than something to rush through?
Take care,
Sam x
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