Episode 11: Release Patterns Letting Go of What Once Protected You but No Longer Serves You

If you have been holding it together but your body keeps telling the truth, this episode is for you.

In this Episode of the Achieve Intentional Transformation Podcast, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison guides you through the third stitch of the T.H.R.E.A.D. System, Release Patterns. This is the leadership practice of completing what is finished, letting go of what once protected you, and restoring clarity, energy, and internal steadiness.

You will leave this episode with • Language for why certain patterns feel so hard to release • A somatic lens for recognizing when a pattern has taken over • A powerful body and nature metaphor for completion and renewal • Five practical practices to release with intention, not self judgment • A question you can return to when pressure rises and you feel yourself tightening

Download the Release Patterns worksheet in the show notes and choose one pattern to interrupt this week, intentionally.

If this episode helped you, share it with someone carrying more than they should; folllow or subscribe so you do not miss the next stitch in the series. And if you have two minutes, leave a review. It helps this work reach the leaders and caregivers who need it most.

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Next episode: Enlist Allies...Because no resilient system is designed to function in isolation.

Stop Reacting, Start Responding

Under pressure, even strong leaders can default to habit instead of intention. In this episode, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison explores the internal movement that happens before every decision, email, or response. You’ll learn how reactive leadership forms under urgency, why speed often replaces wisdom, and how a simple five-second pause can shift you from reflex to intentional response. If you lead people, systems, or communities and want to move through pressure without losing yourself, this conversation is for you.

If this episode resonated, share it with a leader who is navigating high pressure or transition. Follow the podcast so you don’t miss future episodes and please leave a review to help others find this work.

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If you’re starting 2026 with goals in mind but you’re already running on empty, this episode is for you. Before you set another plan or push for more discipline, you need restoration because you cannot build a new year on a depleted inner life.

In this Episode of Achieve Intentional Transformation, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison introduces The Lamp Check, a simple, memorable framework to help you restore yourself before you set goals. You’ll learn how to treat burnout as a messenger, not a personal failure, and ask the deeper questions that reveal what your system truly needs: Do I feel safe, seen, supported, valued? What is my body signaling about belonging—and under what conditions do I actually thrive?

In this episode, you’ll walk away with:

The 4 Lamp Check questions (Body/Base, Spirit/Oil, Soul/Flame, Boundaries/Shade)

4 outcome-driven practices you can use today to rebuild capacity, clarity, and steadiness

A restoration-first approach to goal setting that protects your light instead of consuming it

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In this brief follow-up episode, Dr. Lee returns to a question leaders have been asking since her recent Forbes Business Council article on Thinking Deeply: How do you actually embody depth when timelines are tight, pressure is high, and consequences are real?

This episode offers a practical path forward.

Here Dr. Lee shares a simple six-question guide designed to help leaders stay steady, strengthen decision quality, and protect trust before disruption creates costly repair.

If you are leading through uncertainty, this is a short, usable resource you can bring into your next meeting, decision, or moment of strain.

Resources mentioned in this episode

1) Download the Six Questions Guide (PDF):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7418654991260835840-l_Qs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAFkPMABWT6Rfqa38z1GdVfk_l8VNKdIcUs

2) Listen to the Thinking Deeply episode:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m6qzy-19e99cf

3) Read the Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/01/07/the-thread-system-why-thinking-deeply-must-be-every-leaders-first-move/

4) Get the book on Amazon:

https://a.co/d/4Ft2G5G

5) Connect with Dr. Lee and explore more:

https://www.instagram.com/drleonieh.mattison?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

What if the season that feels stuck is trying to teach you something essential?

In this episode of the Achieve Intentional Transformation Podcast, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison explores Harvest Wisdom, the second stitch of the T.H.R.E.A.D. System™. This conversation is for leaders navigating disruption that hasn’t resolved when plans shift, clarity fades, and moving forward feels uncertain.

Rather than rushing to recover or escape discomfort, this episode invites you to pause and retrieve the wisdom embedded in disruption itself. Drawing on leadership experience and the Sankofa principle, go back and fetch what matters, Dr. Mattison reframes disruption as unfinished material seeking integration, not something to outrun.

You’ll learn five practical practices to: • Name what has truly changed • Identify where disruption presses on your identity or values • Recognize patterns under pressure • Re-anchor to your core standard • Take values-aligned action

🔗 Download the free Harvest Wisdom worksheet: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG63olITSA/iCL3_knftgmPsjT6lPpEBg/view?utm_content=DAG63olITSA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h287025488e

🎧 Subscribe, leave a review, and download the worksheet in the show notes.

👉 Connect with Dr. Lee Instagram: @drleonieh.mattison Website: leoniemattison.com

Why do some people grow through disruption and experience intentional transformation, while others stay stuck in cycles of pain and survival?

In this episode of the Achieve Intentional Transformation Podcast, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison invites you into an honest conversation about those moments when life tilts. Drawing from her own experiences of disruption, she walks through this work with you, so you don’t feel like you’re carrying this season alone.

You’ll explore the first stitch in the T.H.R.E.A.D. System™: Think Deeply and discover why your brain and body react the way they do under pressure during trauma, burnout, loss, unemployment, illness, leadership changes, and quiet identity shifts.

Dr. Lee gently guides you through reflective prompts to help you:

• Name the season you’re really in

• Acknowledge where disruption is touching your life (work, family, health, faith, identity)

• Separate what happened from what you’re afraid it means about you

• Begin to describe the leader you’re becoming on the other side of this season

If you’ve been asking, “Who am I now, and how do I move forward?” this episode will help you slow down, feel seen, and think deeply about your life from a place of compassion, clarity, and intentional growth.

🔗 Download the free “Think Deeply” worksheet for this episode:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG63olITSA/iCL3_knftgmPsjT6lPpEBg/view?utm_content=DAG63olITSA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h287025488e

👉 Connect with Dr. Lee Instagram: @drleonieh.mattison Website: leoniemattison.com

If this episode resonates with you, follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who is walking through disruption and needs to know they are not alone.

🎵 Background music: “Soft Touch” by Peder B. Helland. © 2024 Soothing Relaxation AS. Licensed via Sagatone Music

If your life has been quietly turned upside down, or you’re in a season that feels nothing like what you prayed for, this episode is for you.

Episode 5 kicks off a seven-part transformation journey called “Weaving Your Life Back Together.” We start here on purpose. Before you can rebuild a disrupted life, reset your leadership, or step into your next assignment, you have to gently name what happened and tell yourself the truth about how it has impacted your body, your mind, your spirit, and your work.

In this heart-opening first episode, Dr. Lee shares her own story navigating the “gremlins” of fear, shame, and blame that showed up after disruption and how ancestral resilience and time in nature helped her stand back up, transform chaos into clarity, and turn disruption into direction.

In this episode you are invited to:

• Name Your Disruption with honesty and compassion, putting real language to what you’re walking through.

• Notice where this disruption is living in your body, emotions, and thoughts, instead of pushing past your own nervous system.

• Remember the resilience of your ancestors and the wisdom of nature so you do not confuse being knocked down with being defeated.

• Choose one specific situation to carry with you through the full seven-part T.H.R.E.A.D. journey, so your healing and leadership work has a clear, grounded focus.

If you’re a leader aspiring, emerging or seasoned who looks “put together” on the outside but knows something inside needs to be rewoven, this is your invitation to breathe, be honest, and begin again… on purpose.

Download the worksheet:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG63olITSA/iCL3_knftgmPsjT6lPpEBg/view?utm_content=DAG63olITSA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h287025488e

🔗 Connect with Dr. Lee

Instagram – @drleonieh.mattison

Website – leoniemattison.com

Leadership support, speaking requests, and collaborations – thethreadmovement@gmail.com

Are you carrying the weight of a hard season? Wondering why life has tested you so fiercely, or how to rise when you feel cracked open by adversity? In this grounding episode of Achieve Intentional Transformation, Dr. Leonie Mattison reveals how the hardest moments of our lives can become the blueprint for rising stronger, wiser, and more whole.

Through honest storytelling, deep reflection, and practical leadership wisdom, Dr. Mattison explores:

🌧️ Why adversity breaks us open and why that breaking can be the beginning of rebuilding. 💡 How resilience is formed quietly, through ordinary moments of courage and choice. 🧩 What to do when your confidence feels shaken and the future no longer looks familiar.

You will also learn ten transformative lessons that help leaders rise from seasons of hardship, including:

• leading from truth instead of title • slowing down so your wisdom can catch up • letting adversity soften your heart without hardening your spirit • releasing survival patterns that no longer serve who you are becoming • practicing courage in small, daily ways • living the wholeness you want your team and community to experience

This episode is not about perfection. It is about becoming. It is about choosing intentional transformation in moments when life feels disorienting or unfair.

If you are navigating a difficult chapter or supporting someone who is this conversation will help you reclaim your strength, re-center your spirit, and rise with clarity and compassion.

Tune in and begin rebuilding your life from the inside out.

🔗 Connect with Dr. Lee Instagram – @drleonieh.mattison Website – leoniemattison.com Leadership support, speaking requests, and collaborations – thethreadmovement@gmail.com