What happens when you strip away everything that looks good on paper to find what actually feels good in your body? After months away from the podcast, I'm back with the raw, honest story of my three-year unraveling - and why it led to the most aligned version of myself I've ever experienced. If you've been feeling the pull to slow down, redirect, or trust those whispers from your intuition, this episode is your permission slip to listen.

🔍What to Listen For

• The "birds before shore" metaphor and how to recognize when you're approaching your next chapter of growth and transformation
• Why frustration might be your greatest teacher - especially for high achievers who've been pushing through misalignment for years
• The hidden costs of people-pleasing patterns and how they show up in work relationships, family dynamics, and personal boundaries
• How to recognize when your nervous system is stuck in "optimized fight-or-flight" and why this sabotages creativity and intuitive decision-making
• The 90-day experiment that broke decades of conditioning - removing all pressure-based decision making and only acting from joy and alignment
• Three specific daily practices that shifted me from sympathetic dominance to parasympathetic presence (and why this matters for your success)
• The wealth management breakthrough that happened when my nervous system finally regulated - and the financial clarity that followed
• How embodied wisdom differs from intellectual understanding and why lived experience creates lasting transformation
• The connection between birth doula work and somatic coaching - finding the golden thread through all your life experiences
• Why "simplicity over complexity" became my new operating system and how to get off the hamster wheel of constant self-improvement

Your body holds the answers you've been seeking everywhere else. My three-year journey of unraveling and rebuilding has shown me that sustainable transformation doesn't come from pushing harder—it comes from learning to pause, regulate, and trust the wisdom that's already within you. If my story resonates with your own feelings of misalignment or burnout, I'd love for you to join me at my free live experience "The Art of Pausing" where you'll get to feel these shifts in your own nervous system.

🔗Important Links

Join the FREE experience: "The Art of Pausing" at www.emilyevansrussell.com/pausing
September 17th live event (replay available)

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