The Space Between: How to Feel Calmer in Everyday Life

There’s a moment just after the rain has stopped when the world feels quiet.

The ground holds the weight of water, the trees glisten, the air carries that sharp, clean scent. It’s as though the earth itself has exhaled.

Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced.

Everything simply is.

We often forget to notice that space.

We move quickly to the next thing... The errands, the messages, the work waiting on our desk.

Our lives pull us forward at such speed that the pause between one thing and another goes unseen.

Yet it’s often in those small pauses that the calm we’re craving begins to show itself.

Many women tell me they’ll feel better once something changes. Once the work slows down. Once the children need them less. Once the house is in order. Once the weekend arrives. But waiting keeps us at a distance from ourselves.

We push our sense of peace into the future, as if calm is something we have to earn.

The truth is quieter, and closer.

The nervous system doesn’t ask for grand shifts. It asks for breath. For slowness. For softness. It doesn’t need hours carved out of the day. It needs moments. A pause between emails. A walk to the window. A deep inhale before the next conversation.

Calm isn’t only found on retreats or in faraway stillness. It’s hidden in the ordinary. Lighting a candle while the rain falls outside. Watering your plants and noticing the smallest new leaf.

Playing a game with your family and laughing so hard you forget the clock.

Standing by the sea with the sun on your face, feeling your shoulders drop as the waves keep moving in and out.

These are everyday things, yet they hold weight. They remind us that peace isn’t waiting somewhere far away. It’s here, woven through the day, if we allow ourselves to notice. This is how we can feel calmer in everyday life...

This is the light-bulb moment: the shift we long for is not out of reach. It doesn’t have to come with perfect circumstances. It can begin right now, in the in-between.

So, what would happen if you stopped chasing calm as something “out there,” and instead began to see it as something that’s already here?

Not another task, not another demand, but something as close as your next breath.

The space between is always waiting.

And when you let yourself step into it (even for a moment) you’ll remember that freedom and stillness are closer than you think.

With care,

🌿 Sabrina