🎧 Awakening Joy, Embodying Rest & Living from the Inside Out with Chrissie Chung

In this episode, I’m joined by the radiant Chrissie Chung — a yoga and meditation teacher, retreat leader, and lifelong student of truth who has dedicated the last decade to helping humans live from the inside out.

Chrissi has a rare gift for bringing ancient yogic philosophy to life in a way that’s deeply practical, heart-led, and real. Through her teachings and global retreats, she helps people come fully alive — reconnecting to joy, wholeness, and purpose through the body, heart, and breath.

This conversation is a warm, soul-soothing exhale — one that will invite you to slow down, soften, and remember who you are beneath all the striving. Together, we explore rest, joy, embodiment, and what it truly means to live in alignment with your truth.

If you’ve been craving more ease, authenticity, and inner peace, this episode will speak straight to your soul.

✨ In This Episode, We Explore:

• The unsustainable pace and pressure of modern life — and how to step off the hamster wheel
• Why slowing down and creating inner space is the key to receiving life’s goodness
• Using the body as a gateway to awareness, sensitivity, and awakening
• Emotions as feedback — how to embrace them instead of resisting them
• Busting the myth that meditation = stillness
• The transformational power of curiosity and “not knowing”
• The importance of sangha — finding the right community to grow alongside
• Rest as a sacred practice and way of being — even in action
• How to dissolve guilt around rest and rewire the belief that rest is “unproductive”
• Disentangling your self-worth from doing, achieving, and proving
• Why joy isn’t something to chase — it’s who you already are

🧠 Key Takeaways:

✔ Inner ease amplifies outer ease — what happens within you shapes everything around you.

✔ Rest isn’t the absence of doing — it’s the presence of being.

✔ Every emotion is feedback — not a flaw.

✔ Life is not about doing more, it’s about being more.

✔ Joy isn’t found — it’s remembered.

📌 Topics Discussed:

• Overcoming the constant drive to “do more” and prove your worth
• Building resilience through acceptance and surrender
• The body as a bridge to self-awareness and emotional intelligence
• The power of heart-centered living
• Redefining rest and reclaiming your relationship with stillness
• The “less is more” philosophy — and how it opens space for deeper joy
• Awakening joy by removing what blocks your natural radiance

🔥 If you’re ready to release the pressure, reconnect to presence, and reawaken the joy that’s already within you — this conversation is your reminder to soften, breathe, and come home to yourself.

Chrissi’s grounded wisdom and radiant energy will leave you feeling calm, inspired, and deeply reconnected to what truly matters.

📲 Resources & Mentions:

Follow Chrissi on Instagram → [@Chrissie.Chung] & [@benourished.org.uk]

Learn more about Chrissi’s retreats + offerings → [https://msha.ke/chrissiechungyoga]

Connect with Katie → www.ThriveWithKatie.com | @katiepitsis

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🙏 A Final Reflection:

This episode is an invitation to rest back into yourself — to let go of the striving, the proving, and the pressure… and remember that you are already enough, already whole, already home.

Thanks for being here, in my little corner of the internet.

I am honoured! x