A Letter for July 2025: Navigating the In-Between Season with Emotional Insight & Soulful Grounding
Hi love,
Welcome to July.
The midpoint. The heat. The haze.
The stretch of summer where time feels suspended… and somehow speeding up.
Maybe you’re in a season of becoming.
Maybe you’re between who you were and who you’re becoming.
Maybe your nervous system has been louder than your to-do list,
or your grief has been humming underneath all the brightness.
July doesn’t ask for reinvention.
It calls for remembrance—
Of your breath.
Your pace.
Your truth.
This month is a sacred reclamation of softness, of self, of space.
What’s Coming Up in Therapy Lately...
This month, the therapy room has felt heavy with one theme: quiet burnout.
Not the kind that screams "I'm not okay"—but the kind that sounds like:
“I don’t feel like myself.”
“Everything feels a little… muted.”
“I don’t even know what I want right now.”
“I’m doing all the things, but something still feels off.”
So many of us are realizing that the parts of us that once helped us survive—hyper-independence, high-functioning anxiety, pushing through—are no longer working.
But what comes next hasn’t arrived yet. And that in-between is tender, disorienting, and sacred.
We're naming nervous system fatigue.
We're learning to rest without guilt.
We're grieving old selves while making space for new ones.
We're talking about softness as strategy—not weakness.
If this is you, you're not broken. You're adjusting. You're integrating.
The Astrology of This Month
We begin in Cancer season, the sign of deep emotional roots, inner child healing, and sacred homecoming.
Then, mid-month, Leo season begins—ushering in a return to expression, creativity, and being seen.
Together, they remind us:
✨ Feel it fully. Then express it freely.
✨ Create safety. Then let yourself shine.
July’s astrology brings two major moon moments:
July 9 – Full Moon in Capricorn: Reflect on how you’ve been over-functioning, over-giving, or chasing productivity as a stand-in for worth.
July 21 – New Moon in Cancer: A reset in how you care for yourself and how you allow others to care for you.
If you’ve been feeling:
More irritable or weepy than usual
Disconnected from things that once lit you up
Like you're craving both solitude and support
Ready to burn it all down and take a nap
You're not crazy. You're likely experiencing emotional recalibration.
This month, the soul work might look like:
Asking your body what it needs before asking your calendar what’s next
Allowing joy in without guilt
Letting rest count as progress
Relearning how to want things again
A Soul Truth to Carry:
You don’t need to be fully healed to be fully worthy.
You don’t need a 5-year plan. You need five minutes of presence.
You’re not behind. You’re becoming.
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What parts of me are quietly asking to be seen, softened, or surrendered this month?
Let your pen be honest. Let your body answer too.
With you in the becoming,
Abby
@groundingu.therapy
