The Silent Gapa free guide.
Why success can feel empty, and what a retreat can and cannot do
A Renovo Path guide
The Silent Gap
Why success can feel empty, and what a retreat can and cannot do
What is inside
- 01The pattern
- 02Why thinking harder does not close it
- 03What a retreat can do, and what it cannot
- 04What a Renovo Path retreat looks like
- 05The six months after
- 06Who it is for, and who it is not
- 07How we know whether it is working
- 08Questions to sit with
- 09The facilitator
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A taste of it · 01 The pattern
You have done most of what you set out to do. The career is established, the finances are in order, the relationships are, by any outside measure, intact. And yet there is a quiet, persistent sense of being absent from your own life.
We call this the Silent Gap: the distance between the life being lived and the life wanted. It rarely arrives as a crisis. It arrives as a flatness, a feeling that the goals have gone hollow.
It tends to show up in three ways:
- A career chosen to satisfy a parent, a bank balance or an idea of who you should be
- Relationships maintained from obligation rather than connection
- Days organised around what one should want, rather than what one does
Try them now.
The guide ends with six questions. Here is the first, for the next five minutes.
“In one phrase, how would you describe your life from the outside?”