ISSUE 20 - The Current Knows

There’s a version of trust that sounds good in theory… and then there’s the version you actually have to live.  The version where nothing feels certain.  Where things don’t go the way you thought they would.  Where people show you who they are and it doesn’t match the version you held in your mind.

This week was that kind of week for me.  Not loud enough to break everything…but clear enough to reveal something.  And that’s the part no one really talks about when it comes to trusting the universe: Trust doesn’t feel like peace at first.  It feels like exposure.

It feels like seeing things you can’t unsee.  Feeling things you’d rather move past.  Realizing that not everything, or everyone, is in alignment with where you’re going.  And your first instinct?  Control it.  Fix it.  Force it back into what felt comfortable.  But that’s where the shift happens.

I kept coming back to this image, that a friend reminded me of.  Being on a lazy river.  There are moments where the water is still… where you can float, breathe, soften.  And then there are moments where the current picks up, where the water moves faster, hits harder, shifts direction.  You don’t control either.  You don’t turn around and try to paddle upstream.  Because you won’t go anywhere.  You exhaust yourself trying to fight something that was never meant to be forced.  Instead… you stay in it.  You let the current carry you.  You navigate the turns.  You move with what’s happening, not against it.

That’s what trust actually looks like.  Not passive, not disconnected.  But deeply present without gripping.  This week showed me things I didn’t necessarily want to see.  Where energy felt aligned.  Where it didn’t.  Where I was still trying to hold onto versions of people, situations, or outcomes that my body already knew were shifting.  And that’s the truth I keep coming back to:  The universe doesn’t remove things to punish you.  It reveals things to realign you.

But the hardest part?  Trusting it before it makes sense.  Trusting it when the picture isn’t clear yet, when the next step hasn’t fully formed.  When all you have is a feeling… and your nervous system wanting something solid to hold onto.  This is where most people go back upstream.  They force outcomes, they rush decisions they try to control the timeline.  Because uncertainty feels unsafe.  But what I’m learning, in real time, is this:  You don’t need to control the current to trust where it’s taking you.  You just need to stay in it long enough to see where it leads.  To let what’s misaligned fall away.  To let what’s meant for you meet you.  Without gripping, without forcing, without trying to rewrite what’s already unfolding.  Because the current knows.  Even when you don’t.

And something I keep being reminded of… When you try to force what isn’t ready, what isn’t aligned, or what isn’t meant for you, it doesn’t come together.  It collapses.  Because some things are meant to end.  Some things are meant to grow separately before they ever come back together.  And some things were never meant to be yours to hold.

Forcing them doesn’t create alignment, it creates pressure.  And pressure always finds a way to break.  Not just within your life… but within the natural flow of everything around you.  What’s meant for you won’t require force.  It will require presence.  It will require trust.  It will require you to stay open through the lessons that shape you into the version of yourself that can actually hold it.  Because alignment doesn’t arrive without growth.  But when it is aligned, it flows.  Even the hard parts… flow.

Regulate your body.

Move your energy.

Expand your life.