Monarch Walk Into Spring

Yesterday, on the first day of spring, my daughter asked me to go for a walk. She’s 13 now.

There was a time we walked every day, loops around the neighborhood, side by side, talking about everything and nothing.

But this past year, something shifted. She’s been finding her own rhythm, walking ahead, walking alone, walking with friends, walking into her own life. So when she asked me to go for a walk yesterday…

I felt it. One of those quiet returns that only comes in certain seasons.

We must have taken over a thousand walks together by now. And on this one, two monarchs crossed our path, dancing, circling, landing together on the ground, then flying up together, meeting mid-air.

And I thought about how these exact monarchs won’t make the full migration north. But something of them will.

Generation after generation, carrying something forward
they’ll never personally see completed.

It stayed with me.

How life is like that — a long trail of seasons: seeding, planting, weeding, harvesting, releasing.

Sometimes we are the ones who arrive.
Sometimes we are the ones who begin.

And what we plant isn’t always in our children. Sometimes it’s in a conversation, a moment of care, with our friends and community, a way we show up and rise again.

Seeds scattered in places we may never walk again.

This moment has me wondering…

What season are you in right now?

Are you planting?
Resting?
Tending something tender in a greenhouse, not yet ready for the open air?
Are you refining your soil or experimenting with a flower
you’ve never quite dared to grow before?

There’s no rush to be in bloom.
Each season has its own intelligence.

And sometimes, having a place to tend those seeds with intention, with support to envision what is possible in the garden of your life can change everything.

If you’re in a season of becoming, or reimagining what’s next, I’d love to walk alongside you as you tend what’s emerging. One of my greatest joys and honors is witnessing my coaching clients move through their seasons.

For the rest of the month of March, to celebrate Spring, I’m offering 20% off your first coaching session with the coupon code MONARCH.

And I’d truly love to hear — what season are you in right now, and what name would you give it?