Dear Reader,

One of the most common things I hear from women is:

"I should be grateful."

And usually, they are.

Grateful for their career.
Grateful for their friends and family.
Grateful for opportunities they've worked hard to create.

And yet something feels restless.

Not wrong.

Not broken.

Just incomplete.

I know that feeling well.

I entered a six-year pharmacy program when I was eighteen years old. Within a couple of years, I knew I didn't love pharmacy.

But leaving never felt like an option.

I had already committed.

I had invested years. Convinced my family to go to a private school. I had worked hard to get there. Changing direction felt irresponsible.

So I stayed.

Years later, when I decided to leave my ten-year faculty position, I found myself facing a similar tension.

One of the hardest parts wasn't leaving the university itself. It was leaving my clinical site. I felt so grateful for the opportunities I had been given that gratitude had quietly become obligation.

I remember having a realization that changed my life:

You can be grateful for what you have and still want more.

Gratitude and desire are not opposites.

You can appreciate a chapter and still know you're being called into a new one.

You can appreciate your success and still question whether the pace is sustainable.

You can love your life and still want more room for yourself within it.

Many women stay stuck because they make themselves wrong for wanting something different.

The real question isn't:

"Shouldn't I be grateful?"

It's:

"What is this restlessness trying to tell me?"

Sometimes that restlessness is dissatisfaction.

But often it's growth.

And growth tends to arrive long before we know exactly what comes next.

Often, the invitation isn't to have all the answers or to blow up your life, but simply to listen more closely for how to expand into greater possibility.

Which is what my retreat co-host and I recently did. Wed realized that the original name of our retreat no longer reflected what we wanted women to experience.

So we changed the name.

Not because we were flaky.

Because we listened.

We listened to the women we serve.

We listened to ourselves.

We listened to what wanted to emerge.

Sometimes honoring our evolution is more important than staying loyal to an old decision.

I'm excited to share the new name:

In many ways, this models exactly what we hope participants will embrace at the retreat.

So many women have learned that being trustworthy means being consistent, reliable, and staying committed no matter what.

But what if trustworthiness is really about trusting ourselves?

What if the deepest form of consistency isn't remaining exactly the same, but staying in relationship with what is true now?

Wholeness is not the same as sameness.

The moon doesn't stay in one phase. It waxes, wanes, disappears, and returns. Yet it is always whole and still powerful enough to shift the tides.

I truly believe what women need most is the space to illuminate what truly matters, trust what they desire, and expand into the next chapter that is already calling them.

If you are ready to have clear direction and step into greater possibility - I'd love to have you join us in Tennessee.

There are some great timely bonuses and early-bird pricing till June 30th. Check out details here: https://www.drswetachawla.com/retreat​

Hit reply if that interests you and let's talk.

Here's to illuminating greater possibility,

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