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What if the thing keeping you from living the life you want isn't that you don't know what to do… but that you're waiting to feel ready before you do it?
If you overthink every decision, worry about what people think, try to have everything figured out before you begin, or avoid new experiences because you're nervous, this episode is for you.
In 10 Things the Free Woman Does Differently, we're exploring the Free & Well manifesto and talking about what it actually looks like to become a woman who trusts herself enough to live differently.
We're talking about societal expectations, the inner critic, perfectionism, self-acceptance, overanalyzing, fear of new situations, and the surprisingly powerful idea that you can do the thing nervous.
Because confidence doesn't always come before the action. Sometimes confidence is built because you finally stop waiting and go.
You don't have to become fearless before you start living.
You can bring the nervousness with you.
And you can still go.
🏕️ GET ON THE CAMP FREE & WELL WAITLIST!! 🏕️
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ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you stop overthinking & start confidently LIVING.
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Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
These prompts will take less than 5 mins a day & are my absolute favorite. If you're trying to uplevel your mindset, be more positive or grow your confidence, these are for you, babe.
I hope you enjoy!
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🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Morning Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
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ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you stop overthinking & start confidently LIVING.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
Have you ever tried everything to calm your anxiety, challenged your negative thoughts, identified your cognitive distortions, and talked yourself through every possible scenario… only to find yourself still spiraling?
You’re not alone. And you might not be doing anything wrong.
In this episode of the Free & Well Podcast, we’re exploring why understanding your anxiety doesn’t always make it go away—and how nervous system regulation can help you navigate the moments when your mind has run out of answers.
Sometimes anxiety needs a thought shift. Other times, your body is so activated that more thinking only keeps you stuck in the storm.
I’m sharing my personal experience learning to work with my body, not just my mind, and the simple somatic tools that help me move through anxious moments, including self-soothing, gentle movement, shaking out tension, and dancing to a favorite song.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
You don’t have to eliminate every wave of anxiety to live a full, meaningful life. You can learn to support yourself through the waves—and find your way back to steadiness, one moment at a time.
Because the goal isn’t a life without storms. It’s learning how to surf them.
Welcome to FREE & WELL, your space for mental wellness, nervous system healing, self-trust, and becoming the woman who feels free to actually live her life.
START HERE |
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Morning Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
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ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you stop overthinking & start confidently LIVING.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
You don’t need fixing.
You don’t need improving.
You need to just come back to you.
To feel safe just being you, being present, connecting - no filtering, no masks.
&& to do the things that are important to you & true to you every day.
That’s it.
Free & Well is here to help you feel safe, renew your mind, embody confidence and embrace your life using mental wellness, faith & the nervous system so you can start just being you & enjoying this one precious life you have.
In today's episode I'm sharing 3 journaling prmopts to help you get more clear on what you're wanting & how to become your most confident self.
Grab your journal , let's dive in!
START HERE |
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 9/28-10/3
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
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ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
What if the reason you keep overthinking, people-pleasing, and worrying about what everyone thinks isn’t because you need to fix anything or be better?
What if your nervous system simply learned that you weren’t safe to fully be yourself?
For years, anxiety can quietly shape the way we move through the world—anticipating embarrassment, replaying conversations, filtering what we say, trying to keep everyone happy, and treating small moments like they’re much bigger threats than they actually are.
But healing isn’t about becoming a completely different person.
In this episode, I’m sharing the three shifts that helped me move from living in so much anxiety and fight-or-flight to feeling more grounded, present, confident, and free:
✨ Retraining your nervous system to recognize that you are safe
✨ Deepening your understanding of how God sees you and rooting your identity in His love
✨ Learning to recognize unhelpful thinking patterns without letting anxiety, fear, or people-pleasing make your decisions for you
Because the goal isn’t to never have anxious thoughts again. It’s to become aware of them, regulate your body, and put those thoughts in the passenger seat—so YOU get to drive.
If you’re ready to stop overthinking, trust yourself more, and feel safer being fully you, press play.
START HERE |
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 9/28-10/3
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
🎙Tune in to other listener favorite episodes:
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
What if you’re not actually lost—you’ve just spent so much time doing what you’re “supposed” to do that you’ve forgotten to ask yourself what you actually want?
In this episode of Free & Well, I’m talking with Olivia Tati about what it really looks like to create a life that feels aligned, fulfilling, and genuinely yours. We talk about the pressure high-achieving women put on themselves to have the perfect career, plan, timeline, and identity—and what happens when you realize the life you built on paper doesn’t actually feel like the life you want to live.
Olivia shares how she went from corporate engineering and $25,000 of credit card debt to entrepreneurship, real estate investing, coaching, and intentionally creating a life around freedom and purpose.
We dive into people-pleasing, identity, self-worth, perfectionism, fear, analysis paralysis, and the pressure to have everything figured out before taking the first step.
You’ll learn why you don’t need to hit rock bottom to change your life, why clarity often comes from experimenting instead of thinking harder, how the way you talk to yourself affects what you believe is possible, and how to stop overwhelming yourself with the entire staircase when you only need to take the next step.
If you’re an ambitious woman in your 20s who looks like she’s doing everything “right” but secretly feels anxious, stuck, or unsure whether the life you’re building is actually yours, this conversation is for you.
You don’t need the entire plan.
You just need permission to listen to yourself—and take the next step.
HIGHLIGHTS |
00:00 — You’re Not Lost—You’re Overwhelmed
Why high-achieving women can struggle to hear what they actually want.
02:36 — From High Achiever to Burnout
What happens when success on paper doesn’t feel fulfilling.
08:35 — You Don’t Need to Hit Rock Bottom to Change
Why you’re allowed to want something different before everything falls apart.
10:27 — What to Do When You Feel Stuck
How to keep moving when you can’t see results yet.
13:16 — Stop Asking “What Should I Want?”
A simple question to reconnect with what you actually want.
16:33 — When You’ve Done Everything “Right” but Still Feel Unfulfilled
Breaking free from expectations, people-pleasing, and someone else’s definition of success.
20:19 — The Self-Talk That Keeps You Stuck
How your beliefs about yourself can shape your confidence and what feels possible.
23:18 — Stop Putting Other Women on a Pedestal
How comparison and self-doubt can keep you from going after what you want.
28:22 — How to Stop Overthinking Your Next Step
Why you don’t need the whole plan—you just need the next step.
32:43 — Are You Chasing This or Proving Yourself?
How to tell the difference between authentic ambition and achievement driven by insecurity.
34:30 — Creating a Life That Actually Feels Like Yours
A reminder that life can be lighter, freer, and more fun.
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MENTIONED |
Olivia Tati is a Freedom Empowerment Guide, entrepreneur, and real estate investor helping ambitious women build lives and businesses with more freedom, joy, and choice. After leaving her corporate engineering career, she built a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio and now teaches women how to create wealth without building a life they need to escape from.
Olivia's Fund Your Freedom Free Masterclass
Olivia's Instagram
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
Beauty, if you're ready for a new era.
You're ready for confidence.
You're ready for peace.
You're ready to get out of your head & start truly just being you & enjoying your life.
YAS. Let's FREAKING GO.
You're going to love this episode about the social experiment I did with myself when I was feeling really self conscious and like the weirdo at a new gym, trying to make new friends. I'll share with you:
-the limiting beliefs I noticed within myself
-the steps I took next to heal & rewire them
-my top 4 practices that helped me go from overthinking & insecure to putting myself out there & feeling more confident
I hope you love this episode!
&& don't forget to sign up for our upcoming live experiment!
I'm so excited to walk through this with you & help you initiate your most confident era.
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 10/5-10/9
START HERE |
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
🎙Tune in to other listener favorite episodes:
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
Does this feel familiar?
Replaying the conversation in your head over and over.
Asking “what you could’ve said better… if that sounded weird... if they liked you…”
Rewriting the text for the 97th time to make sure it sounds just right so they don’t get upset with you or you don’t hurt their feelings when you say you can’t make that party Saturday night (because really you just don’t want to go).
First off, you’re not alone.
I’ve been right there.
You have such a huge heart and you care so much but you’re also exhausted of all the replaying and analyzing.
This series is for YOU.
Stop the Spiral.
You'll hear about why this is so common, the FREE approach to handling spirals (faith, nervous system and mental health based), and hopefully walk away understanding why your brain & body do some of the things they do and some simple practices that I've found helpful on my journey.
START HERE |
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 10/5-10/9
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
🎙Tune in to other listener favorite episodes:
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
Does this feel familiar?
Replaying the conversation in your head over and over.
Asking “what you could’ve said better… if that sounded weird... if they liked you…”
Rewriting the text for the 97th time to make sure it sounds just right so they don’t get upset with you or you don’t hurt their feelings when you say you can’t make that party Saturday night (because really you just don’t want to go).
First off, you’re not alone.
I’ve been right there.
You have such a huge heart and you care so much but you’re also exhausted of all the replaying and analyzing.
This series is for YOU.
Stop the Spiral.
You'll hear about why this is so common, the FREE approach to handling spirals (faith, nervous system and mental health based), and hopefully walk away understanding why your brain & body do some of the things they do and some simple practices that I've found helpful on my journey.
START HERE |
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 10/5-10/9
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
🎙Tune in to other listener favorite episodes:
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
Does this feel familiar?
Replaying the conversation in your head over and over.
Asking “what you could’ve said better… if that sounded weird... if they liked you…”
Rewriting the text for the 97th time to make sure it sounds just right so they don’t get upset with you or you don’t hurt their feelings when you say you can’t make that party Saturday night (because really you just don’t want to go).
First off, you’re not alone.
I’ve been right there.
You have such a huge heart and you care so much but you’re also exhausted of all the replaying and analyzing.
This series is for YOU.
Stop the Spiral.
You'll hear about why this is so common, the FREE approach to handling spirals (faith, nervous system and mental health based), and hopefully walk away understanding why your brain & body do some of the things they do and some simple practices that I've found helpful on my journey.
START HERE |
🧬 Join UNAPOLOGETIC: a live 5 day confidence experiment! 10/5-10/9
🎧 Download the Free 4 Minute Calm Reset: my go to breathing practice for peace & calm
🎙Tune in to other listener favorite episodes:
ABOUT FREE & WELL |
Free & Well is a mental wellness movement helping women start fully living their lives. Hosted by anxiety therapist & yoga teacher & therapeutic workshop facilitator, Devoney, each episode blends practical mental health tools, faith & nervous system based tools to help you step into your most peace filled, confident era.
CONNECT |
Website
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE |
Leave a rating and review, I read each one and it means so much to me to hear how the podcast is
supporting you!
Recommendations shared in this episode are based on my own personal opinion. No content provided by Free & Well and/or on this show is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. It is all purely for educational purposes and is not a replacement for medical, legal, or mental health advice. Please call 911 if you are in an emergency, the Access & Crisis Line if you are in a crisis at 888-724-7240, 988 for urgent mental health support or contact a licensed mental health provider for mental health support. See full disclaimer here.
From the publisher's feed
Hey sweet twenty-something, welcome to the Free & Well Podcast. Do you want to feel more peace & more confidence? Are you tired of second guessing yourself and overthinking…
Are you ready to stop filtering yourself, start speaking up, being more outgoing, saying yes to the adventures & putting yourself out there more?!
Yeah?! You are in the right place, friend!
I’m Devoney & I'm so glad you're here. I've served over 5,000 hours as a therapist, I'm a faith based yoga teacher & a dog mom. Growing up, I remember replaying conversations in my head, comparing myself to the girls around me & constantly worrying about what other people were thinking about me.
Everything changed for me when I started blending mental health, faith & the nervous system together. In this show, you’ll learn tools to feel more calm, rewire your brain & own who you are so that you can start being more outgoing & saying YES to more fun, more adventures, being more YOU.
Each episode I share nuggets from my 10 +years in the mental health field and my own raw, imperfect & real lessons life as a recovering people pleaser & Christian who experiences anxiety & ADHD.
I'm here to share with you all the things I've learned so you can start being the woman God created you to be, unapologetically!
If you're ready to enter into your most peace-filled, confident era, this is the show for you!
Grab your iced coffee & your journal, let's dive in!
Find more at freeandwell.org!

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