The Power of the Pause

A powerful reflection on rest, healing, and rediscovering purpose in entrepreneurship through divine alignment and stillness.

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)

It's been a while. My last post, The Weight and the Wings, explored the sacred tension of carrying motherhood while learning to fly as an entrepreneur. It marked a turning point in my journey, one shaped by the beautiful and sometimes heavy weight of becoming. What I didn’t realize at the time was that another shift was already underway.

Since then, I’ve been quiet because I felt God was asking me to listen. To pause. To recalibrate. I didn’t stop working, creating, or serving, but I did stop striving. I stopped chasing the timeline. I stopped measuring my worth by my output. I stepped away from the performance of entrepreneurship so I could remember the purpose of it.

You see, entrepreneurship is the gift that keeps on giving, in many ways like motherhood. Entrepreneurship will stretch you in both beautiful and brutal ways. It will force you to become someone new. And sometimes, in all the becoming, you forget who you were before you started building.

You forget what peace feels like. You forgo rest. You can even forget to breathe.

For years, I’ve moved at the speed of my vision, striving, leading, building, and pushing through. I’ve carried the weight of other people’s expectations, the urgency of being a first, and the pressure to excel as a Black woman in leadership.

But even good things can become distractions. And if you’re not careful, even vision can become noise.

This wasn’t the season I planned. I had launches scheduled, goals outlined, and timelines mapped out. But God had something else in mind: restoration. The kind of soul-deep restoration that doesn’t show up on your calendar but changes everything behind the scenes and provides clarity through the stillness. 

A cause for unquestionable alignment and powerful ability to lead myself again, before I lead anyone else. Divine interruption.

The pause was sacred and awarded me deeper healing. It became a source of clarity that no strategic planning session could offer. In stillness, I remembered what I was building and why I was building it. And once again, wellness became my strategy, stillness became my strength, and faith became my compass.

As a woman of faith, I’ve always believed in God’s timing. But this season taught me to trust it. To embrace divine alignment even when it looks like a delay. To honor the slow work of restoration in the development of my leadership, just as much as I celebrate the visible wins of my leadership.

Because what good is the platform if your peace is unstable? What good is growth if it costs you your grounding? Your health and wellness? Your ability to positively lead, uplift, and serve others, because the pause also reminds us that authentic leadership isn’t measured by output. It’s sustained by values and preserved by wholeness, even when everything else feels like it's falling apart.

That’s the work I’ve been doing quietly with every breath. Literally.

This fall, I’ll be sharing more of this journey through a limited-series podcast. But more than anything, I’m moving forward from a rooted place. Anchored.

And I want to say this, especially to the women holding it all:

If you are a mother, a builder, a dreamer, a woman of faith navigating pressure and purpose, please know this: 

You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are not lost.

Divine delay and divine interruption are real. You are becoming. And sometimes becoming requires you to pause.