When the world feels loud, urgent, and on fire, it's easy to feel like you're failing if you're not reacting fast enough — or loudly enough.

In this episode of Big Shift Energy, Amanda invites us to slow down, arrive in the moment, and reconsider how we're spending our most valuable currency: our energy.

Through mindfulness, breathwork, and an honest conversation about activism, Amanda challenges the idea that visibility equals impact — and that silence equals apathy. Using a marathon metaphor, she reminds us that not everyone is meant to run at the same pace or on the same part of the course.

This episode is a permission slip to stop fragmenting yourself, to honor your capacity, and to recognize that caring for yourself is not checking out — it's how you stay in for the long haul.

Because quiet can be strategy. Rest can be resistance. And you don't have to run the marathon to matter.

🎨 Art for the Heart - February

Feeling the pull to create without pressure or outcome? Art for the Heart, a space to move, make, and express without needing it to mean anything or become anything.

Come as you are. Leave lighter.

🫧 Key Takeaways

• Constant pressure fragments us and fuels isolation

• Mindfulness and breathwork help us come back into ourselves

• Your energy is currency — spend it with intention

• Visibility does not automatically equal impact

• Activism exists beyond social media performance

• Collective change requires many different roles

🎙️ Sound Bites

"Energy is a real currency here and we have so much opportunity right now to spend it intentionally."

"We need people who know where their energy actually belongs and how we can best utilize it."

"Pressure does not make me feel more connected. If anything, it makes me feel very fragmented, isolated, and disconnected from people who I love dearly."

🌱 Gentle Shift for the Week

This week's gentle shift is an invitation to notice where your energy actually belongs — not where it's loudest, demanded, or most visible.

Try this:

• Pause once a day and ask, "Is this worth the energy it's asking from me?"

• Choose one place to spend energy on purpose — rest, art, connection, or a conversation that matters.

• Choose one place to spend a little less — scrolling, explaining yourself, or reacting on autopilot.

This isn't about doing less. It's about spending differently.

Your energy is finite. Let it land where it can actually do some good — for you and for the world.

✨ Chapters

00:00 — Introduction 00:01 — Arriving in the Middle of the Noise 00:37 — How Pressure Pulls Us Out of Ourselves 02:05 — A Breath to Get Back in Your Body 06:20 — Energy, Attention, and What Actually Costs You 13:57 — You Don't Have to Run the Marathon 18:56 — Social Media Is a Room, Not the Whole House

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