Today, I was offering a self-care regimen to one of my massive spider plants; I was removing the dead leaves that had gathered from the parent plant and its babies. As you know, if spider plants are allowed to keep growing, they can produce a significant number of babies, and this was the case in my situation. I was unable to keep up with pruning and repotting, so many babies are still attached to the plant.

I thought about how often we hold on to situations for longer than necessary, to the point where they no longer serve us, and we begin to lose ourselves. Just as plants cut off access to leaves or branches that may hinder essential growth, we as humans need to let go to facilitate new development in our lives.

Change feels scary because it takes us into an unknown territory. Our brain has to relearn how to reach a place of comfort again. None of this is physiologically bad; it has been taught to us in specific spaces that it is not necessarily a good thing. People focus so much on the ending of a situation that they don’t realise that a beginning follows soon after. 

Let us take care of our situation and start making room for growth in your life.