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Season 1 begins by helping you recognise the early signs of emotional restlessness rather than pushing them aside. You now understand that the “Meh” feeling is a signal, a cue to pause, reflect and pay attention to what your mind and body are trying to tell you.
Working through these foundational exercises and prompts, there should be a sense of opening, a beginning of a journey to discover your values and principles as you explore you own career change.
Here are the key takeaways for Season 1 and The Meh Season:
Notice your mood this season and start labelling and identifying the patterns
3 fail-safe ways to do this:
This is building the ability to name your emotions more precisely, which helps you break out of overwhelm and understand what’s really going on beneath the surface. You’ve also reminded yourself of reconnecting with trusted friends, noticing how honest conversation brings clarity and lightness when you're in this season. Hormonal and physical rhythms influence your mood. Instead of criticising yourself for low energy, you’re beginning to recognise these shifts as part of your internal cycle and adjust your expectations with more compassion. Hearing other people’s experiences also helps to feel less isolated, offering language for emotions you haven’t yet articulated.
Put in place nourishing routines for yourself to get you out of the Daily Meh
3 super-easy ways to do this:
You’ve begun building small nourishing routines that stabilise your mood and help your nervous system settle. Season 1 has bought a clearer sense of what drains you, what restores you and how your mood changes across days and weeks. This awareness aids emotional foresight, which will sharpen your future decision making around life and career.
Career Exercise 1: A sense check (Stop, Start, Continue)
In life and work combined, what do you really want to:
-Stop doing.
-Continue doing.
-Want to start doing.
-Never ever want to do!
Career Exercise 2 : Start creating your own guiding principles
Build your ‘mothership’ of values - your foundation where better decision making can flow from there.
Ideas: Jot it down. Anywhere.
Start having an outlet to begin creating and reclaiming your own narrative. Substack is great for this, even if you don’t post, but it could be any where you feel comfortable. in jotting things down.
Whatever form it is, this is where you can test out what you want to create, play around with the themes and have the values mirrored back to you in your own style and language. This is about giving yourself proper space to figure things out and be led by your flow state.
And finally, if you’re using Season 1 to guide you in the latter months of the calendar year, somatic coach Poonam Dhuffer has shared some great self-reflection prompts to help you wrap up, especially during ‘Betwixmas’ - that strange time between Christmas and New Year. As she beautifully articulates, it’s the perfect time to ‘collect all the treasures of wisdom of the year’.
So give yourself an invitation to create a warm cosy cocoon and take your time (‘easy does it vibes!’) with Poonam’s prompts below. It’s less about ‘what you achieved this year’, and more about understanding what works for you. I’ve selected the most pertinent ones in the context of Oh Yeah’s approach:
Ultimately, know that you can slow down during The ‘Meh’ Season, particularly if it’s the colder months of hibernation giving way to pure reflection. Ignore the social noise, cut out the nonsense and focus on making space for yourself. And I hope, with Season 1, you’ve taken the first steps to do just exactly that.
