S2 Ep 5 | What Happens When We Stop Bracing and Start Living?
Wow, this episode felt like an exhale to record. It’s an honest reflection on where I am right now: a season of integration, self-trust, and embodied alignment after a long, messy, beautiful descent. I talk about the relationships I’ve rebuilt with parts of myself, especially the anxious, younger part that used to run the show, and how somatic work has helped me create real groundedness. We explore what it means to trust ourselves in real time, to let go of the perfectionism that keeps us braced, and to live our way into new questions, not just answer them. If you’re navigating change, honoring complexity, and/or learning to stay with yourself in the hard and the good, I think you’ll find something here that speaks to your own unfolding too.
Key Topics Discussed:
0:00:00 | Intro
0:00:09 | What Question Am I Living Into Right Now?
0:01:34 | A Season of Integration, Not Arrival
0:03:42 | Reconnecting to All Parts of Myself
0:05:44 | Building Trust with My Anxiety
0:07:49 | What Alignment Feels Like in the Body
0:10:13 | Sharing Without an Agenda
0:11:44 | Why We Rush to “Get to the Lesson”
0:13:06 | What the Descent Season Taught Me
0:16:40 | How I Showed Up for the Hard Stuff
0:18:48 | The Beauty That Exists Even in Pain
0:21:27 | Meeting Ourselves Where We Are
0:23:01 | Stuckness vs. Staying: What's the Difference?
0:25:27 | Where Do We Limit Ourselves (and Others)?
0:28:57 | Groundedness as a Foundation for Relating
0:30:52 | Choosing to Come Back to Self-Trust
0:32:29 | Perfectionism as Performance
0:34:09 | What “Letting Go” Really Looks Like
0:36:28 | How Integration Brings the Tools to Life
0:39:08 | Trusting the Present Moment
0:40:18 | Gratitude for the Version of Me That Chose This
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