S1 E2: My Healing Journey - How I Found My Way Back to Myself
Episode Description:
I used to think I was fine.
I said yes to everything. I read every room before I even walked into it. I could tell you exactly what everyone around me needed — but if you asked me what I needed, I had no idea. I'd stopped asking.
In this episode, I'm sharing the honest, unfiltered story of how I lost touch with my own intuition — and how I slowly found my way back. We're talking about people-pleasing, burnout, ignoring your gut, caring too much about what everyone else thinks, and building a life around "should" instead of choice.
If you've ever made a big decision based on what you thought you should do instead of what you actually wanted... if you've ever caught yourself rehearsing an apology for something you haven't even done yet... this episode is for you.
This isn't a "I fixed it and now I'm healed" story. It's an ongoing practice — and I'm walking you through exactly what that practice has looked like for me.
What We Cover:
- The pattern that ran my life — how being "the reliable one" who could read any room quietly became a way of disappearing from myself
- Challenge 1: People-Pleasing — why saying yes when I meant no isn't kindness, it's fear in a nice outfit, and the small shift ("let me get back to you") that started changing everything
- Challenge 2: Running Myself Into the Ground — what burnout actually felt like in my body, the wall I eventually hit, and how I discovered restorative yoga wasn't another workout to push through — it was permission to stop
- Challenge 3: Ignoring My Intuition — how asking five other people what they'd do slowly eroded my ability to trust myself, and how I learned to tell the difference between fear and intuition
- Challenge 4: Caring Too Much About Other People's Opinions — the exhausting habit of running every choice through an imaginary panel of judges, and what changed when I finally asked "what would I choose if no one was watching?"
- Challenge 5: Living by "Should" Instead of by Choice — naming the shoulds that built a life that looked good on paper but didn't feel like mine, and the daily practice of checking in with what's actually true for me
- The thread that connects all five — learning to trust myself over everyone else's expectations, and why this is a practice, not a finish line
A Few Honest Truths From This Episode:
- People-pleasing isn't kindness. It's fear.
- Disappointing someone occasionally is the cost of having boundaries — not evidence that you're a bad person.
- Burnout isn't a scheduling problem. It's a boundaries and self-worth problem.
- Trusting yourself is a practice, not a personality trait you either have or don't.
Mentioned In This Episode:
- Restorative yoga as a practice in listening to your body and rebuilding trust in your intuition
- My restorative self-love yoga class
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