Recently, I was having a conversation with someone and as we were chatting they said three words to me that penetrated deep into my soul. She listened as I told her how some things about my life were currently causing me to feel a bit of anxiety and nervousness about the future, and she simply said, “Miranda, trust the process.” This was some of the best advice I have ever gotten. When you “trust the process”, you not only give up the need to be in control over things you have absolutely no power over, but you also are having some faith that things will work out how and when they are supposed to.

There are so many ways to “trust the process “ and lots of them can apply directly to you. It may be a new relationship you are trying to navigate to see if it really has legs or not. Or, maybe there’s a job you really wanted but didn’t get and now you’re feeling frustrated as to what your next move should be. Trusting the process and having faith that things will work out as they are intended to can really help bring your stress and anxiety down. I used to obsess a bit in regards to my future. I would work myself into a bit of a tizzy and not sleep well at night, stressing about things like where I was going to live one day or how I was going to afford my future and it wasn’t until I started to really ”trust the process” that I was able to let go of a lot of that unnecessary worry and anxiety.

Trusting and having faith doesn’t mean simply giving up and doing nothing. We often build support networks around us and make game plans that we may not even realize we’ve already set in place. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve moved apartments and thought, ”this is never going to be done!!” Yet in the end, things always get cleaned out and everything gets moved from one place to the next with the help of these support networks and game plans that I’ve developed over the years. Even that time my mom, brother and best friend ended up shipping the contents of what felt like my entire life across the country and put everything that remained in a storage unit for two years. #trusttheprocess

Whether you are looking at buying a house, moving to a new place, switching careers, starting a new educational endeavor, retiring from a job, having a baby, raising your kiddos, starting a new relationship, leaving an old relationship, feeling a bit stagnant in your current relationship, maybe you’re having the normal fears about aging parents and the circle of life, dealing with a health issue, not meeting your weight or fitness goals or you might just be a bit of an anxious and emotional person in general. Trust the process. Give it a try, and you’ve got nothing to lose.

If all else fails, call me, or leave a comment on this blog. I’ll walk the journey with you. We all need a shoulder to lean on, an ear to bend and a hand to hold sometimes. And that’s just GOOD STUFF!! #trusttheprocess