SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

The Day You Do Nothing and Everything Changes

Day 7 of 7: Empty Space for the New Moon to Land

Dea Devidas's avatar
Dea Devidas
Dec 19, 2025
∙ Paid

Your nervous system just spent six days evicting emotional squatters from every corner of your life and now your brain wants to celebrate by immediately filling the empty space with new projects, goals, and a vision board. Absolutely not. Today you do nothing. And I mean nothing in a way that will make your productivity-addicted ego feel like it’s being personally attacked. No cleaning. No organizing. No “gentle yoga.” No journaling about your experience. No Instagram story about your transformation. Today you sit in the space you created and let it be empty. Your to-do list can choke.

Your entire body has been releasing for six days. Layers of identity. Shelves of expectation. Drawers of other people’s needs. Your tissue needs time to reorganize around what’s left. Not what you’re adding next. What’s LEFT. The space between your cells is recalibrating. Your fascia is rewriting its memory. Stillness isn’t laziness. Stillness is where integration actually happens.

Here’s what the self-im…

User's avatar

Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Dea Devidas.

Or purchase a paid subscription.
© 2026 Dea Devidas · Publisher Privacy ∙ Publisher Terms
Substack · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture