A young client told me the thing she fears most is being uncomfortable. Her answer was to stay busy. Most of us do some version of this: filling the calendar so we never have to stop and feel. But doing can be its own kind of hiding, and healing starts when we stop long enough to notice what we've been outrunning.

Alt Text: A single rose floating on still dark water, from a post about busyness and slowing down by Healing Arts Center Virginia Beach.