06/11/2025
Reposted from
Reflection SHE 2025 — 1. When the Music Stops
Nontembeko , Stha and Sanelisiwe opened our journey with a truth that held the room in sacred stillness:
Life does not always play to our rhythm.
Sometimes the music fades… the movement slows… the dance falls quiet.
But silence is not the end — it is an invitation.
We learned that many of us were conditioned to package pain neatly — to smile through heartbreak, to “be strong,” to keep moving even when we’re crumbling.
And sometimes, that very conditioning is what stops the music.
It silences our dance, not because the rhythm is gone, but because we’ve muted our own truth.
We were reminded that we often live life from the outside in — moved by noise, expectations, opinions, and chaos. When the world is loud, we forget our own sound.
Yet when the music stops — when life pauses, when strength slips away —
a deeper rhythm begins.
We explored how the order of our birth shapes our rhythm through life — the unspoken roles, the sibling dynamics, the inherited expectations.
And the humour of it all?
You can be born last in your family, only to get married and suddenly rise to firstborn status overnight — expected to lead the dance before you’ve learnt the steps.
Life has its own choreography.
Silence gives us space to turn inward, to hear truth more clearly, and to rediscover the pulse within. From that stillness, we learn to live from the inside out… guided not by external melodies, but by the quiet rhythm of our own hearts.
Even when you cannot move, life is teaching you how to begin again.
Even in stillness, a new choreography is forming.
Because sometimes, in the silence of the music and the inability to dance…
we gain a new gift —
the sacred art of letting our inner rhythm lead the next step.
✨ We invite you to reflect…
When did your music stop — and what did you discover in the silence?
Share your story with us below.
Your voice may be the rhythm someone else needs to begin again.
Let’s keep dancing,
even when the rhythm changes.
