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In this final episode of 2025, we’re talking about the soft work rituals that actually hold your life together — the small, nervous-system–aligned practices that protect your energy, clarity, and capacity when everything else gets busy.

These aren’t luxuries.

They aren’t “nice to have.”

They’re foundational.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• ✔️ Why soft work rituals are the missing link for sustainable ambition
• ✔️ How starting your day with intention (not input) rewires your nervous system
• ✔️ The physiological reason recovery between stressors matters more than rest at night
• ✔️ Why managing energy — not just time — changes everything
• ✔️ Five simple rituals that lower stress chemistry while increasing clarity and focus

This isn’t about doing less for the sake of it.

It’s about creating the internal conditions that allow you to show up fully — without burning yourself out in the process.

If you want 2026 to feel calmer, steadier, and more aligned — this episode will help you build that foundation gently, intentionally, and powerfully.

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Related Episodes:

• Previous Episode
• Are You High or Low Energy? Nervous System Balancing Exercises Based on Your Energy Type
• Burnout Trifecta: 3 Personality Traits that Are Draining Your Energy
• Start Doing This Today to Reclaim Your Energy with Chloe Ward
• Energy Drains Aren’t a Time Problem — They’re a Boundary Problem

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Stress isn’t just something you think about.

It’s something your body carries.

Every interruption.
Every transition.
Every responsibility and unspoken emotional load.

Your nervous system responds to all of it — and if stress never gets discharged, it doesn’t disappear.

It settles. It accumulates.

In this episode, we’re talking about why releasing stress from the body is non-negotiable — and how to do it in ways that are fast, practical, and deeply regulating.

You’ll learn:

• ✔️ Why unresolved stress — not stress itself — is what exhausts your nervous system
• ✔️ How stored tension lives in your muscles, breath, jaw, and fascia
• ✔️ Three simple somatic techniques that help your body complete the stress cycle
• ✔️ How daily stress discharge lowers reactivity, improves clarity, and restores capacity

This isn’t about “calming down” or positive thinking.

It’s about giving your nervous system what it was biologically designed to do:
move stress through instead of storing it inside.

If you’ve been holding it together, powering through, and wondering why your body still feels tight, wired, or heavy — this episode will help you release what you were never meant to carry alone.

Related Episodes:

• Previous Episode
• Unlocking Calm Powerful Somatic Practices to Shift out of Fight, Flight or Freeze
• Burnout Recovery Blueprint (Part 2): Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body
• 3 Somatic Practices for Anxiety: Why They Work & How to Do Them
• 5 Somatic Techniques to Regulate When You're Feeling Overwhelmed

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“Why can’t I just feel happier… when my life is actually good?”

If you’ve asked yourself some version of this question -

it isn’t a gratitude problem,

it’s not a mindset failure,

and it’s not that you’re “bad at joy.”

It's what's happening in your physiology.

Chronically elevated cortisol can quietly shift your nervous system into survival mode — and when that happens, joy becomes neurologically inaccessible, even when good things are happening.

In this episode, we unpack:

• ✔️ The science of high cortisol and low mood — and why stress chemistry blunts pleasure
• ✔️ The subtle, real-life signs your nervous system is blocking joy for protection
• ✔️ Why “choosing joy” and mindset work often fall flat when your body is overwhelmed
• ✔️ How somatic, body-based practices help your system feel safe enough to receive goodness again
• ✔️ Simple ways to start softening stress so joy can come back online

This conversation isn’t about forcing happiness.

It’s about removing the physiological blocks that keep joy out of reach.

Because joy isn’t something you create with effort.

It’s something your body allows when it feels safe.

If you’ve felt flat, disconnected, or like everything is just “one more thing to get through,” this episode will feel validating — and gently hopeful.

Your nervous system isn’t broken.

It’s been protecting you.

And with the right support, it can learn how to soften again — so you can actually feel the life you’re living.

Related Episodes:

• Previous Episode
• 4 Signs You’re Addicted to Cortisol (and How to Fix It)
• 5 Habits I Stopped Doing to Heal My Nervous System & Balance My Cortisol
• 4 Ways to Foster Joy in Our Families
• Take 2 Minutes: Boost Your Joy with Daily Gratitude Practices Backed by Science with Marc Fussell

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