You say you want less pressure, a quieter mind and more space to actually enjoy your life.

But then things finally calm down… and suddenly you’re checking emails, finding things to fix, starting another project, worrying about what you’ve forgotten or feeling strangely restless.

In this episode, Stacey explores why peace can sometimes feel more uncomfortable than pressure when you’ve spent years being the capable one.

The one who handles things.

The one people rely on.

The one who is always thinking three steps ahead.

Because sometimes we become so familiar with being needed, productive and under pressure that when there’s nothing urgent to solve, we don’t quite know what to do with ourselves.

This episode looks at the subtle ways we can create pressure without even realising it — in our work, relationships, businesses and everyday lives — and why slowing down isn’t always as simple as deciding you need more rest.

Stacey also leaves you with a handful of questions to help you notice what happens when life gets quiet, including whether you can actually let a good thing be good… without immediately looking for what needs fixing next.

If you’re the woman who keeps saying, “I just want my brain to be quiet,” this one might make you notice a few things.

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Gratitude is powerful.

But what happens when “I should be grateful” becomes the sentence you use to shut down what you’re really feeling?

In this episode, Stacey explores the pressure women feel to appreciate the life they have, even when parts of it are no longer working.

Maybe you love your children deeply, but you’re exhausted by always being needed.

Maybe your partner is a good person, but you still feel lonely or unsupported.

Maybe you’re proud of the career or business you’ve built, but the way you’re living no longer feels sustainable.

And every time you acknowledge it, you quickly remind yourself that other people have it worse.

This isn’t an episode about being ungrateful or blowing up your life. 

It’s about recognising when gratitude has become a way of dismissing your needs, avoiding an uncomfortable conversation or convincing yourself to stay in a situation that needs to change.

Because you can appreciate what you have and still want something different.

You can be grateful for the life you’ve built and honest about the parts that no longer fit.

Both can be true.

Connect with Stacey on Instagram:
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Or via email:
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If you’ve heard people talk about shadow work but still aren’t entirely sure what it is, or how it’s actually meant to help you.. this episode is a really beautiful place to start.

In this conversation, Stacey is joined by Jessicka Anne to explore shadow work, energetics, emotional integration and the parts of ourselves we often learn to suppress, avoid or judge.

Jess shares her own journey into this work, including how losing her husband changed the direction of her life and ultimately led her into deeper healing, energetic work and supporting other women through their own transformations.

Together, Stacey and Jess unpack what the “shadow” really is and why it isn’t simply about finding everything that is wrong with you. 

Often, our shadow holds the emotions, needs, desires and parts of our personality that we were taught were too much, unsafe or unacceptable.

When those parts are pushed down, they don’t simply disappear. 
They can show up through people-pleasing, emotional reactions, self-doubt, overthinking, burnout and repeating patterns we don’t fully understand.

This is a powerful conversation for anyone who is tired of surface-level advice and wants to understand more of what may be happening underneath their thoughts, behaviours and patterns.

Connect with Jessicka:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0
Website: https://jessickaanne.com/

Free gift - 11 shadow work prompts: 

http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts

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In this episode, Stacey challenges the way we've been taught to think about resilience and explores the difference between building true emotional capacity and simply becoming better at tolerating stress, overwhelm and self abandonment.

She unpacks why so many successful women feel exhausted despite "coping," how your nervous system and window of tolerance influence the way you respond under pressure, and why being capable doesn't always mean you should keep carrying everything.

You'll learn:

•  Why resilience and survival aren't the same thing. 
•  The difference between increasing your capacity and increasing your tolerance for unhealthy situations. 
•  How your childhood patterns shape the way you respond to stress. 
•  What the Window of Tolerance is and why it matters. 
•  Practical ways to build genuine resilience without burning yourself out. 
•  The question every high-achieving woman needs to ask herself before taking on one more thing. 

If you've ever been told, "You're so strong," but secretly feel like you're running on empty, this conversation might completely change the way you think about resilience.

Because real resilience isn't about carrying more.

It's about staying connected to yourself while life gets hard.

Want to connect?
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In this episode, I’m joined by Katie Martin, also known as Mrs Martin, the Mindset and Money Mentor.

Katie helps women change the way they think, feel and behave with money, not from a place of shame, but from understanding the stories, beliefs and patterns that have been running in the background.

In this conversation, we talk about why money is never just about the numbers.

It’s about safety.

Identity.

Worth.

Control.

Avoidance.

Hustling.

And the stories we inherited long before we even realised they were shaping our financial decisions.

Katie shares her own journey with money, how she created the Mrs Martin identity, and why women can have completely different incomes but still be running the same money story underneath.

Whether you’re on Centrelink, in a career, building a business, or earning more than you ever thought possible, the pattern can still look the same.

Avoiding the bank account.

Feeling guilty for spending.

Hustling for more but never feeling safe.

Waiting until you “know enough” to start investing.

Feeling like money disappears as quickly as it comes in.

Or believing that wealth is for other people, but not for you.

We also speak about money archetypes, the difference between avoidance and alignment, why discomfort doesn’t always mean something is wrong, and how small daily shifts can start changing the way you relate to money.

This episode is for the woman who knows she’s ready to stop ignoring her money, stop making herself wrong for what she doesn’t know, and start building a healthier relationship with wealth, safety and self-trust.

Because changing your money story isn’t just about having more money.

It’s about becoming the woman who can hold it, grow it, speak about it, and make empowered decisions with it.

Listen to Episode 104 of the Happy, Healthy & Healing Podcast with Katie Martin now.

Connect with Katie:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/mrs.katiemartin
Challenge Link:  https://mrsmartin.com.au/challenge
Free Quiz link : https://mrsmartin.com.au/quiz

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What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't a lack of motivation, confidence, or discipline, but a belief you don't even know you're carrying?

In this episode, Stacey Allison shares a powerful personal coaching experience that uncovered one of the deepest unconscious beliefs driving her life: if I fail, I'll die. While she knew logically it wasn't true, her nervous system had spent years responding as though it was.

Stacey explores how the beliefs we form in childhood quietly shape our decisions, relationships, careers, and sense of self long into adulthood. 

She explains why so many women stay trapped in cycles of overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage, not because they're broken, but because their nervous system is following an old survival pattern.

This episode is a reminder that awareness is only the beginning. 
Lasting change doesn't come from thinking differently alone, it comes from identifying the pattern beneath the behaviour and creating new evidence that you're safe to choose differently.

In this episode, you'll learn:

•  Why even coaches have blind spots 
•  How unconscious beliefs are formed and continue to shape adult behaviour 
•  The hidden link between survival patterns and self-sabotage 
•  Why awareness alone doesn't create lasting change 
•  How repetition helps rewire old beliefs and build genuine self-trust 

If you've been doing "the work" but still find yourself repeating the same patterns, this episode will help you understand why and show you where real transformation begins.

Want to connect?
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Most women don’t stay stuck because they don’t know something needs to change.

They stay stuck because changing direction brings up guilt, fear, shame and the question so many women are quietly carrying.. “What will people think?”

In this episode, Stacey Allison explores the power in the pivot and why changing direction isn’t always failure. 

Sometimes it’s growth. Sometimes it’s honesty. Sometimes it’s the moment you stop trying to force a life, career, business, relationship or identity that no longer fits the woman you’re becoming.

She talks about the invisible checklist so many women are taught to follow: build the career, grow the business, get the house, keep everyone happy, be grateful, be successful, and don’t fall apart.

But what happens when the life that looks good on paper no longer feels good on the inside?

This episode unpacks the shame many women feel around pivoting, the fear of judgment, the difference between genuine alignment and avoidance, and the real cost of staying somewhere just to save face.

You’ll also be guided through practical reflection questions to help you understand whether you’re avoiding discomfort or ignoring the truth that something needs to shift.

If you’ve been feeling unfulfilled, restless, resentful, disconnected, or like you’re trying to make something work that is quietly costing you your energy and self-trust, this episode will help you see pivoting differently.

Want to connect?

Email - [email protected]
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After every retreat, I like to sit down and reflect on what actually happened in the room.

Because no two retreats are ever the same.

Different women.
Different ages.
Different stories.

And yet there are always a few themes that keep showing up.

This retreat had women ranging from their 30s through to their 70s, many of whom had never done anything like this before.

What surprised them most wasn't some big breakthrough moment.

It was how simple it was.

Within 24 hours, many of the women went from feeling like they were operating at a constant 10/10 stress level to a 5/10 or lower. 

Not because their lives suddenly changed, but because they finally gave their nervous system what it had been asking for.

We also explored something I see all the time in my coaching work: the problem we think we have is rarely the actual problem.

Feeling overwhelmed.
Unable to ask for help.
Always needing to be in control.

These are often symptoms of something deeper.

A fear of disappointing people.
A fear of not being enough.
A fear that if we stop holding everything together, everything will fall apart.

And perhaps the most powerful takeaway of all was the connection.

Not because the women had the same lives, but because underneath the different stories were the same feelings.

Feeling unseen.
Feeling exhausted.
Feeling responsible for everyone else.
Feeling like they had to keep it together no matter what.

In this episode, I share the biggest lessons and observations from our most recent Reset & Rise Retreat, why working with your nervous system doesn't have to be complicated, and what happens when women finally have the space to slow down, be seen and realise they're not the only one carrying what they've been carrying.

If you've ever found yourself thinking, "I shouldn't feel this overwhelmed" or "I don't even feel like myself anymore," I think you'll get a lot from this conversation.

Next Reset & Rise Retreat dates:

📍 August 21–23, 2026 

📍 November 13–15, 2026

📍 Feb 2027 - Waitlist open

DM RISE on Instagram or send me a email [email protected]
if you'd like more information or have any questions.

This is my 100th episode… and when I sat down to record it, I didn’t want to just celebrate it.

I wanted to say something that actually matters.

Because after 100 conversations about mindset, patterns, confidence and emotional intelligence, there are certain things I see over and over again in women.

Not the ones who are falling apart.

The ones who look like they’ve got it together.

The ones who are capable, self-aware, doing all the right things… but still feel stuck in their own head.

Still overthink everything.
Still second guess themselves.
Still have that quiet feeling of “I don’t feel like myself anymore.”

In this episode, I’m sharing 10 of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt coaching clients and on my own journey.

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If this episode hits, share it to your stories and tag me — I love seeing who’s listening.

And if you’re at the point where you’re ready to stop repeating the same patterns and actually change them, you can reach out to me on Instagram and I’ll point you in the right direction.

Stacey xx

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You’ve done a lot of inner work… so why does it still feel like this?

Same overthinking.
Same reactions.
Same situations playing out in slightly different ways.

At some point, you start to wonder, is it me… or is this just how life is?

Here’s what most people don’t realise:

You’re not stuck. You’re running a loop.

And until you see it while it’s happening… you’ll keep ending up in the same place, no matter how much you “understand” yourself.

In this episode, I break down what these loops actually look like in real life, the subtle patterns that feel normal but are quietly keeping you in the same cycles.

We get into why your brain keeps choosing familiar reactions (even when they’re exhausting you), and the part no one really talks about…

Why awareness isn’t the thing that changes your life.

If you’ve ever thought, “I know better… so why do I keep doing this?”
this will hit.

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