The Pause Between Celebration and Growth

There is something I see often in the coaches and founders I work with, and it is something I have walked through myself.

You make progress.

You feel the shift.

You look around and notice how far you have come.

But just as you begin to celebrate, there is a hesitation.

A voice that says, “If I get too uplifted, life will balance me out.”

That pause is familiar for many of us.

We have been conditioned to hold back. To avoid fully appreciating the good in case it disappears. To stay measured, reserved, cautious.

And yes, life brings balance.

But not in the way our fears would have us believe.

Here is what I have come to understand, both personally and with the clients I support:

Celebration is not indulgence. It is integration.

It is the moment where the internal and external journey meet.

It is where you acknowledge your growth, your effort, your lived experience.

That moment of reflection opens the next chapter not because something is lacking, but because you are ready for more.

If you bypass it, if you move too quickly into what’s next, you miss the depth of what has already shifted.

You overlook the richness of what has already unfolded.

And that flatness you feel after the high? It is not a fall.

It is the space that signals readiness.

It is your next level calling you forward.

So take the pause.

Let yourself feel it.

Appreciate what is here.

Then step forward, not from lack, but from wholeness.

You are not being set up to fall.

You are being prepared for what is rising.

Tanya Cross

Leadership Coach & The Coaches’ Coach

Master Certified Demartini Method Facilitator

BAppSoSc (Counselling)

The Coaches’ Coach (TCC)

Maximum Growth