Serenity Now: The Space Before the Answer

In this solo episode of Serenity Rising, Bron explores a place many people living with illness know intimately, yet rarely name: the space before the answer.

It's the moment before results arrive. Before the appointment. Before the conversation. Before you know what comes next.

This episode is anchored in one of the Serenity Now cards and invites you into that in-between space where tension often lives — not as something to fix or push through, but as information from the nervous system.

Bron reframes tension as a signal rather than a flaw, and introduces ease not as the absence of difficulty, but as the capacity to soften while uncertainty remains.

Through a personal reflection, nervous system insight, and a brief, accessible practice, Bron guides listeners into the quiet power of pausing.

Not to find answers, but to remember that presence itself can be regulating, stabilising, and healing.

In this episode, Bron explores:

• Why the waiting can feel harder than the knowing
• How the body braces in moments of uncertainty
• Tension as a nervous system response, not a personal failing
• The role of micro-moments of ease in supporting healing
• The difference between forcing calm and allowing space
• Reframing the Serenity Prayer as a tool for discernment, not control

This episode is especially supportive if you are living with scanxiety, anticipatory fear, or the constant low-level vigilance that cancer can bring. It offers no instructions, no affirmations, and nothing to "get right." Only an invitation to notice, to breathe, and to rest briefly in the space before the answer.

Make every day count.

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