Stillness as Signal
Letters to My Sisters
Today, stillness is the signal. Not the silence.
Dear Sister,
Some days, the signal doesn’t come through words.
It doesn’t arrive in strategy, momentum, or well-lit to-do lists.
Some days, the signal is stillness.
The kind that makes you uncomfortable,
because you’re so used to performing motion.
The kind that feels like “nothing is happening,”
when everything is actually re-aligning beneath the surface.
Stillness isn’t silence.
It’s the space where signal clarifies.
Where the noise clears.
Where the “shoulds” scatter.
Where your body gets one clean breath to say,
“Yes — this is true.”
We weren’t taught to lead from stillness.
We were taught to over-explain. To launch. To prove.
But I want you to know —
You can build from breath.
You can sell from pause.
You can lead from the space between the signal and the sound.
Stillness doesn’t mean stop.
It means something new is trying to find you.
And it needs space to land.
So if today feels slow,
if the words won’t come,
if the calendar feels too sharp —
that might be your signal.
Don’t override it.
Don’t rush to make meaning.
Just pause.
And listen.
Your rhythm is not wrong.
It’s wise.
With you in stillness,
Pam