Knowing When To Let Go

By Carolyn Kates, Clarity with Carolyn

2025 is a year for releasing anything that no longer serves your spiritual growth. This could include old patterns, relationships, limiting beliefs, or material possessions. However, one of the most challenging things in life is knowing when to let go—when to let go of a job, a relationship, a belief, a repeating thought, a situation, or whatever you have chosen to remain attached to.

Most of us remain attached because it gives us a sense of security and safety. Although remaining attached helps us feel safe, we generally end up feeling stuck. While there’s nothing wrong with safety—it is, after all, one of our basic needs—we must learn to discern what is truly safe and what is safe for the sake of comfort and conformity-what you're afraid to change.

So, today, it is time to look within yourself, to be honest with yourself, and to begin to discern what you need to let go of so that you can move on. Do not wait for life to force your hand and to make the decision for you! That perhaps is the most painful thing to do- knowing that you must let go and change but choosing not to out of fear or perhaps out of your best thinking, then being forced to let go by some outside force.

Today, recognize that everything and everyone has a season—sometimes the season lasts a minute, sometimes it lasts years, but eventually, there is a new season on the horizon.

Today, allow yourself to be still and quiet, listen to the nudges that your intuition is giving you, and let yourself know it is time to let go. If you don’t listen to the voice asking you to let go, you will never know what beautiful blessings await you on the other side—in the unknown. Your mind cannot possibly conceive what lies ahead.

Today, no matter what excuses or rationalizations your ego may be telling you why you need to stay attached, remember holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing there’s a future.

Just for today, I am willing to let go. I permit myself to let go. I lovingly forgive and release all of the past. I am safe. It is only change and I know that letting go will allow me to move forward. Life supports me in every possible way and everything is working out for my highest good.

And so it is.