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A layoff takes your job and it also takes the shape of your week. It takes the version of you who had a clean answer ready when someone asked what do you do. That loss is real and deserves room.

Most of these permissions are ones you would hand a friend in a second. You are allowed to keep one for yourself.

You read it, you feel understood for a minute, and then you go back to performing for whoever is watching.

Pick one permission, the one you are least willing to give yourself, and keep it for a week.

Which one are you gifting to yourself?

Save this for the hard days and send it to someone who is between chapters.

[layoff, career transition, job search, between jobs, career change, career coaching, mindful leadership, self compassion, grief and work, starting over, quiet permissions, avec an s, coaching with a flourish]

You made the decision at 2am more times than you can count.

You know exactly what you want to walk away from. You know what you have been pretending to enjoy. You dream of relief before you have moved a single thing in your actual life.

Then the sun comes up. You make breakfast, you open your laptop, you answer the first message of the day, and somewhere in there the reasons to stay rearrange themselves into a shape you can live with for one more quarter.

Your honesty at 2am was real. It simply had nowhere to land once you were being practical again.

Building your landing place is where we work. Pivot On Demand is where we do it together, with on-demand content you move through at your own pace, a guided Personal Pivot plan, small group coaching, and two sessions with me.

Your 2am self already knows. Book when you are ready to give that version of you somewhere to go.

[Career pivot, career change, career transition, career crossroads, quitting your job, burnout recovery, mindfulness for working parents, working mom career advice, self trust, inner work, coaching for women at a crossroads]

👋🏾 I’m Saida. A beautiful work in progress as I work on progress.

Some seasons ask more of us than we planned for. I know the overwhelm that arrives in the middle of parenting, in the middle of a career, in the middle of a life you built on purpose and still feel unsure of. I have sat with my own overindulgence and overstimulation while trying to stay present for the people who need me most.

I have learned to protect my energy while staying open to God’s will.

I value kindness, exploration, learning and honesty, and I bring every one of them into the room with you.

My clients come to me when they are tired of waiting for the right moment. We slow down long enough to hear what you actually want. Then we build the practice, the language and the plan that carry you forward.

I’m a mindfulness coach making better humans. Let’s do better together and live your dreams out loud.

[parenting, dreams, purpose, coaching, faith, career, progress, mindfulness]

On Demand is live! So you have access to pivot on your own time. @ 🔗 avecans.github.io/ondemand

Recovering from heartbreak ❤️‍🩹 this World Cup season. Sorrows, sorrows, prayers!

Sat next to a few refs at the last watch party. Brought me back to soccer memory days. If anyone has the joy of soccer and no longer playing, seriously look into becoming a ref.

They reminded me that the game especially needs more inclusive refs. We can get (re)licensed together!

You can see that VAR only does so much good or unnecessary evil 😆 I put in my time back in the day but only left because youth parents were too intense for my short lived venture as a teenage ref.

Clearly have lived so many lives these past 40 years. Anyways, excited for Women’s World Cup and Morocco🇲🇦 2030.