Midnight Snack E45: I Don’t Power Through Anymore, and Here’s Why

Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E45: I Don’t Power Through Anymore, and Here’s Why

There was a time when powering through looked like strength.
Like competence.
Like resilience.
Like proof that I could hold everything together no matter the cost.

And for a long time… it worked.
It kept me alive.

But survival strategies are not meant to become lifelong operating systems.

In this Midnight Snack, I speak from the other side of collapse — not burnout, not mindset work, not self-help — but the moment when the body revokes permission to keep living in self-override.

This isn’t about doing less.
It’s about no longer forcing life through a nervous system that has already carried enough.

Powering through is not resilience.
It’s refusal.
Refusal to rest.
Refusal to feel.
Refusal to let the body be human.

And eventually, the body says no.

This episode is for anyone whose strength has been measured by endurance, whose worth has been tied to output, and whose body is quietly — or loudly — asking for a different way to lead, create, and live.

Not from urgency.
Not from adrenaline.
Not from panic.

But from presence.
From regulation.
From sovereignty.

This is a Midnight Snack for the ones who are no longer interested in surviving their lives — and are ready to inhabit them instead.

🌙
The shadows have snacks.
And tonight, this one is about choosing yourself.
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