Rooted in Readiness
- Julie Grint

- Apr 19
- 4 min read
Returning to your centre in a world that keeps pulling you away

There’s been a lot moving lately. You might have felt it? That push-me-pull-me energy.
One minute you’re clear, ready, grounded. The next your mind goes to mush, your body feels off, and you’re not quite sure where you’ve gone.
This is the space I held this week.
Not to fix it.Not to force clarity.But to understand it.
And more importantly, to create a way back to yourself inside it.
Because the truth is, your life moves in the in between of all that, and the in between is where you either stay with yourself or lose yourself.
Day 1 — Stop
We began with something simple (but not always easy).
Stop.
Not shutting everything down. Not avoiding. But learning to create space between you and everything that pulls at you.
Because when you don’t stop you get carried - by thoughts, by emotions, by habits that aren’t actually supporting you.
So we introduced the S.T.O.P. process:
Slow it down
Tune in
Orient your body and mind
Proceed from presence
This becomes your anchor point. Your way back. Something you can use in real time, in real life, when things start to feel like they’re slipping.
Day 2 — Return to your inner Earth
From there, we moved into steadiness.
Not as an idea, but as a felt sense. Creating an inner place you can come back to. A place that holds you when everything else feels uncertain.
Because the world outside can feel chaotic and it’s very easy for that chaos to become your internal state. But when you can hold calm within you, you begin to reflect that back out.
This is where your power sits. Not in controlling everything around you, but in knowing how to come back to yourself within it.
Day 3 — Recalibrate and move forward
And then we brought it together.
Because this isn’t about staying still forever. It’s about knowing how to move without losing yourself.
When your “come from” is steady, your next steps change, because they don’t come from fear, urgency, or needing to escape how you feel. Instead they come from presence, and that shifts everything.
Why I created this
I found myself in a place where something wasn’t right.
On the outside, I was moving through life, doing what needed to be done, but inside I wasn’t fulfilled.
My heart wasn’t being lit up by what I was doing anymore and things that once felt natural started to feel heavy. My mind felt blocked. I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t take in new information.It was like something in me was starting to shut down. And underneath all of that, I just wanted to feel joy again. To feel something real. But it felt out of reach.
At the start of this year, I had already decided that things needed to change. But I also realised this:
If I was going to create real change I couldn’t do it from that place.
I needed to feel steady in myself. I needed my feet on the ground and I needed to know that the choices I was making were actually right for me - not shaped by pressure, expectation or fear.
There was a lot moving through me. A lot of emotion and energy and I could feel how easy it would be to get pulled by everything happening outside of me. The noise. The intensity. The weight of it.
I didn’t want that to become my internal state. I had to come back. Back to ground, to slow down, so that I could feel what was actually mine.
But this wasn’t about stopping completely. There was energy that needed to move. Things that needed to shift. Things that needed to be released. So I had to learn how to hold it. To stay with myself whilst everything else was still moving and redirect that energy instead of letting it keep me in a cycle of fear.
I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I also knew it was needed.
I needed to return to my centre. To know where I am and who I am - even when it feels uncomfortable - and to be able to hold myself there. To come back into my body. To lead with self care. To feel safe and steady, even when things wobble so I can stay anchored to myself.
That’s what this is about. In fact, it’s what all of my work is about - creating a space where you can get to know yourself, understand your body and feel confident trusting your intuition.
That’s Intuology.
Something to work with
If you take one thing from this, let it be this:
You don’t need more information.You need more moments where you return to yourself.
Use the S.T.O.P. process. Even once a day. Especially when you feel the pull to rush, react, or override.
This is how you begin to build stability. Not perfectly, but consistently.
Watch or listen back
If you want to experience the sessions, or come back to them again, you can access the recordings for free here:
Inside the Facebook group — The Living Mirror
Or inside Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-living-mirror-5321/about
Take them at your own pace. There is no rush here.
Where we are now
The new moon has just passed.
You might feel that sense of wanting to move, to begin, to step forward and that’s natural.
But this is also where it’s easy to go too fast. To push, to force, to slip back into old patterns without realising.
So instead we take a different approach.
We begin the 21-day journey.
Not as something to complete, but as something to live alongside your life.
A space to deepen this work.
To practise staying with yourself.
To build steadiness whilst things continue to move.
Your space to practise, to return to yourself and to move at your own pace.
So there’s no pressure, no need to keep up, no expectation to do it perfectly. Just enough desire to show up and just enough movement to stay connected.
Without the chaos. Without the force.
If you feel the pull, you’re welcome to join.
This is about learning how to stay with yourself in the moments that matter most.
Much love
J xx





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