The Wobble

Over the past few days, I’ve felt a bit off.

A low-level wobble running through me. Subtle, but hard to ignore once I noticed it. It started with a strange dream that lingered longer than usual, then a few moments during the day where my body felt unsettled. Small spikes in my system that didn’t quite make sense. Not enough to stop me, but enough to feel that something was shifting.

I’ve had these before. They tend to show up when something is shifting.

At the moment, I’m building something. An app. A space for reflection. Something that helps people reconnect with what matters to them. It’s work I care about, not just because I want it to succeed, but because it’s closely tied to how I’m trying to live.

That connection makes it feel different.

To build it honestly, I have to show more of myself than I’m used to. The reflective side. The uncertain side. The part that is still figuring things out as it goes. There’s no clean separation between the work and the person behind it.

And that does something to you.

We often imagine growth as a steady, upward process. Something that feels clear and controlled. But in practice, it rarely looks like that. Sometimes it feels unsettled. Slightly anxious. A bit disoriented, as if your system is adjusting to something it hasn’t fully understood yet.

What’s changed for me is how I respond to that feeling.

I’m no longer trying to fix it straight away. I’m noticing it instead. Letting it sit there without immediately reaching for a distraction or a solution. Carrying on with the day while it hums quietly in the background.

And, given a little space, it begins to pass.

Yesterday I felt more like myself again. Not perfectly clear, but lighter. More centred. The wobble hadn’t disappeared entirely, but it had softened.

I’m starting to see these moments differently now. Not as problems to solve, but as part of the process. A sign that something is moving beneath the surface.

I don’t have a neat conclusion for this. Only a simple observation.

If you’re trying to change something in your life, especially something that matters, it might not feel stable all the time. There will be moments where things feel uncertain, where your footing isn’t quite as solid as it was before.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re off track.

It might mean you’re exactly where you need to be.