Widen the View

Widen the View

“The eyes experience less stress when they can look upon a wider horizon.”
—R.D. Chin

Over the summer solstice weekend, I joined two of my long-time girlfriends for a getaway on little Anderson Island in south Puget Sound. We had plans for beach lounging, iced drinks in hand, and a sun-soaked celebration of summer.

Instead?
Rain. Lots of it.

And not the romantic, misty kind—this was full-blown downpour-on-repeat that kept us sequestered indoors with a view of Lake Josephine through the rain-streaked windows—the three of us huddled around a coffee table working on a 1000-piece puzzle that, quite honestly, had no business being that difficult.

It was one of those gorgeous garden scenes—bursting with vivid flowers, hummingbirds, dragonflies, butterflies, and tucked among them, tiny frogs, curious crabs, and even a few little fish peeking out from the water’s edge. Swirling shades of tropical green, pink, orange, and blue made it feel almost alive. 

Beautiful… and maddening. The kind of puzzle that pulled you in with wonder but kept you guessing at every turn. And while we snacked our way through a pantry full of “vacation food,” each of us claimed a corner or a color, heads down, locked into our zones.

And yet, every so often, I had to get up. Step back. Take a breath. It was only from a few feet away, from a different vantage point, that I could see the piece I’d been searching for was right in front of me all along.

Funny how that works.

It reminded me of what I see so often in life—what I’ve experienced in my own story, and what many of the women I work with feel too: when you're deep in something hard—uncertainty, grief, change, transition—it’s easy to get tunnel vision. You zero in on what isn’t working, convinced if you just think a little harder or push a little more, you'll figure it out.

But sometimes it isn’t about trying harder.
It’s about seeing differently.

When life feels foggy, when the terrain beneath you keeps shifting, and your next move feels unclear—it’s not your strength that’s in question. It’s the size of the view you’re trying to navigate it from.

Sometimes the only thing that’s really stuck… is your perspective.

And when that happens, the wisest thing you can do isn’t to double down on the struggle.
It’s to rise up.
To zoom out.
To remember there’s a horizon just beyond the edges of what you can see right now.

That’s what I help women do—especially during those in-between moments when what was, no longer fits, and what’s next hasn’t quite come into focus. 

When you widen the lens, you reconnect with the truth underneath the noise. You piece together something new and true, and beautifully your own.

You don’t need to have the full picture yet.

You just need to pause long enough to see what else might be possible.

We all have seasons in life and if this happens to the one for you, where you don’t know where to go next, maybe that’s your cue to try something new. 

Book your free discovery call today.

Let’s look beyond the edges together—and see what starts to take shape when you give yourself permission to see differently.

Love and Light,

Michele