How To Let Go

About a week ago, I decided that it was time to shelf Holy Sip and just do everything under my name. Actually, more accurately, the universe decided fo me and I decided not to resist.

It all started when someone hacked into my Facebook account. I lost the account (didn’t care much about it) and on top of that, I lost my Holy Sip Instagram account because they were linked (I cared about it). My IG account had a good following and I’d posted images that I loved. I was sad to think that it could be lost.

After trying for about two hours, I realized that I wasn’t going to get it back. I wondered what I was supposed to learn here. This happened after a really great meditation session and walk. I was on this great high until I finally checked my email until noon and saw the alert so I knew that this was happening for a reason.

After sitting with it for a while I heard this little voice say, maybe it’s time to let go of Holy Sip. Hmmm. I’d been working on a new website for Holy SIp for months and found myself stuck in trying to figure out the purpose. Was it really time to let it go? I loved the name so much that I’d been holding onto it after the tasting space closed and tried to morph it into anything beverage-related that I could. Was this holding me back somehow?

A few days later I had to pick up my bar cart and vintage glassware from a friend’s space as she was moving out of it. After the initial Holy Sip space closed we’d talked about me doing the tastings in her space. I’d moved over the scant items that I had. It never ended up working out and these items were sitting in her space for a little over a year. After I moved the items back to my loft I felt a sense of peace. I found myself inexplicably grinning from ear to ear. I found the closure that I didn’t know that I needed.

I knew in that moment that the little voice that I heard a few days earlier wasn’t a mistake. It was time to let it go. I believe that one day Holy Sip will resurface as something more concrete because the name is just too good to completely abandon. But until then, I’m going to keep things on this site. I’m excited to see where this freedom will take me and to discover what that little voice already knows.