Why emptiness is a good thing

By Stella Orange | Comments Off on Why emptiness is a good thing

Greetings, fellow travellers!

Interesting idea for you:

It can be a challenge to let ourselves be empty.

In this modern age, we often hear of people – especially women – who have let their fuel tanks run empty.

But that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about letting there be room in our lives.

Creating spaciousness.

Leaving room for the sunlight and breezes to come in and have their way with us.

Not cramming our schedules, homes, heads, and bellies until they’re too full.

Years ago, my friend AV and I noticed that we were chronically overscheduling ourselves. We had a problem. We needed to stop. We needed to fill our days 2/3 full. Not all the way.

I can’t remember how that story ended up.

But I find myself in conversations where people are talking about this again.

The chronic habit many of us have to ‘jam too much’ in.

How uncomfortable it can be to allow ourselves to be with the emptiness.

It’s all very normal.

And very human.

So, today, I wish you spaciousness.

May you mix and mingle with the unknown and the not-yet-full.

May you relish the empty, the dark, the void.

May you let Winter do her thang and allow your fields to rest so that when Spring returns, you are ripe for growing.

And may you allow yourself to be with the potency of emptiness, without any compulsion to fill it up.

Big love,
Steph

A.K.A

Stella Orange is a copywriter who helps people put their work into words. For eight years, she wrote email campaigns that resulted in more than a million dollars in sales for her clients. In that time, Stella also taught popular marketing writing workshops to business owners on both sides of the Atlantic -- and a few in Australia and New Zealand. In 2017, Stella cofounded a creative and consulting shop offering a complete and slightly unorthodox line of business advising and marketing services. She continues to write copy and advise clients on customer delight, how to resonate with more sophisticated, discerning clientele in your marketing, and just who, exactly, your ideal clients are. Stella is the founder of Show Up And Write, a weekly writing group and writes a letter every two weeks or so (here’s the sign-up). She lives with the Philosopher and their two kiddos in Buffalo, New York, a fifteen-minute bike ride to the Canadian border.

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