Slowing down has never come naturally to me.
For most of my life, I equated rest with falling behind, stillness with laziness, and quiet with something to fear. But what I didn’t realize was that the nonstop motion I lived in wasn’t ambition — it was avoidance.
This episode of Permission was born from finally learning that peace isn’t something you chase… it’s something you learn to sit inside.

In this conversation, I’m sharing what it really looked like to stop running, to listen inward, and to discover that stillness isn’t the absence of progress — it’s the beginning of presence.

You’ll hear about:
• How “doing it all” became my distraction from actually feeling anything
• Why slowing down felt more terrifying than burnout
• The night I hit my breaking point on the kitchen floor
• What happens when your nervous system has only ever known chaos
• The shift that changed my motherhood, my creativity, and my relationship with myself

This is an episode about learning to rest in the middle, not after everything is perfect.
About releasing the belief that worth is something you earn through exhaustion.
About giving yourself permission to slow down, breathe, and be here — fully, honestly, and without apology.

Key takeaways:
• Rest isn’t falling behind — it’s integrating who you’re becoming
• Peace isn’t waiting on the other side of your achievements
• Stillness isn’t nothing happening — it’s where everything finally lands
• Your worth has nothing to do with your output
• It is safe to slow down, safe to breathe, safe to listen to your own life

I hope this conversation reminds you that rest is not a reward — it’s a right.

And if you’ve been moving so fast you can’t hear yourself anymore, let this be the moment you soften.
Because Permission isn’t about slowing life down — it’s about finally showing up for the one you’re already living.

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