It's Pivot Season
Responding When Life Asks You to Live Differently
What do you do when the life you’ve been living starts asking you to live differently?
That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s the one I’ve been sitting with, and if I had to guess, some of you have been sitting with it too.
That feeling is what I’ve come to recognize as the beginning of a pivot. And right now, that’s the season I’m living in.
A pivot is simply a response. A willingness to shift toward what fits and away from what no longer does.
It sounds simple. But living it is a different story.
A Pivot Isn’t a Failure. It’s a Response.
I think we’ve been taught to see pivots as a sign that something went wrong. Like pivoting means you didn’t have it together, or you changed your mind too many times, or you couldn’t stick to a plan.
But I’ve lived long enough to know that’s not true.
A pivot is what happens when life presents a new moment, a new challenge, a new opportunity, a new truth you can’t ignore, and you have enough wisdom and courage to respond to it. The people who never pivot aren’t more committed. They’re often just more comfortable. And comfort, as I’ve learned the hard way, will keep you exactly where you are long after you’ve outgrown it.
Pivoting is growth in motion.
I’ve Pivoted Before. More Than Once.
I’ve pivoted more times in my life than I can count. One of the most significant pivots of my life was when I made a decision to change the way I eat. My health was telling me something wasn’t working, and I had a choice: keep going the way I was going, or shift. That pivot changed everything. It wasn’t clean or easy. It required research, new habits, some failed attempts in the kitchen, and a complete rewiring of how I thought about food and what it was for.
Then there was the pivot when I decided to relocate. Halfway across the country. From Florida to Texas, sight unseen, for a fresh start and new opportunities for my children and me. Just packed up everything I knew and moved toward something I couldn’t fully see yet. That kind of pivot requires a different kind of courage that I won’t even get into here, but in that season, I experienced the true meaning of faith over fear and most importantly, grace.
Each of those pivots asked something of me. Each one required me to release a version of myself I’d gotten used to.
This Season, The Pivots Are Bigger. And More Personal.
Right now, I’m navigating more than one at the same time.
I’m in the middle of a career pivot, learning new skills, leaning further into my entrepreneurial journey and the work that feels most true to who I am and what God placed in me. In a world that’s changing rapidly, with AI shifting the workforce and the way business gets done, I’m choosing to move with intention rather than react out of fear.
I’m also transitioning into a new parenting season. I became a mother at 15 year old. I’ve been raising children, babies, for all of my life. And now, for the first time, I’m stepping into a new season of life with young adults. My children will always need me and I’ll always need them. But the role is changing. And that changes things for me too. Who am I becoming in this next chapter? What does my life look like when I have more space to explore that question?
Then there’s this: my body is changing. The way I used to care for myself, what worked, what I could get away with, what my body tolerated, isn’t quite the same anymore. And learning to listen to my body in a new way, and care for it accordingly, is its own kind of pivot. If you know where Im going with this, then you know the struggle is real.
And underneath all of it, I’m pivoting from a survival mindset to a thriving mindset. Dreaming more. Creating more. Actually building the life I believe God desires for me, not just managing through it.
A lot is shifting at once. And some a little uncomfortable, some exciting, but it all fees right and I’m leaning into it.
It’s Pivot Season
There are so many ways we pivot in this life. We pivot in how we think. In what we want. In how we care for ourselves. In our careers, our relationships, our beliefs. Sometimes a health diagnosis changes everything. Sometimes a business has to completely transform. Sometimes a new season of life quietly shows up and asks you to become someone new.
I have conversations coming with women and couples who have navigated pivots of their own, in their health, their businesses, their identities. Over the next several weeks, we’re going to talk about the mental work, the practical steps, and the spiritual grounding it takes to pivot well.
Because I believe some of you reading this are in the middle of a pivot too. Maybe you’ve been resisting it. Maybe you’re just now naming it. Maybe you’ve already started moving but you needed someone to say, you’re not off course. You’re just becoming.
That’s what this space has always been.
The Becoming Together Podcast | Season 2
Season 2 of the Becoming Together Podcast launches this week, and it’s a solo one, just you and me, going a little deeper on everything I’ve shared here.
Episode 1 or Season 2 Airs this Wednesday, May 6th at 6 AM CST | Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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Reflective Journal Prompts
Growth doesn't happen in the reading, it happens in the reflection. Grab your journal and give yourself a few honest minutes with these prompts:
What area of your life is asking you to pivot right now, and have you been listening?
What are you holding onto out of comfort that may be keeping you from what’s next?
What does the version of yourself on the other side of this pivot look like?
What past pivot in your life turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to you?
What would it look like to stop surviving this season and start actually living in it?
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We’re walking this out together, and I can’t wait to get into it with you.
Sherrita