How Your Nervous System, Your Expectations, and Your Identity Collide...

Hey friend — welcome back to the Called & Curious Podcast, where there’s no pressure, no performance, just peace… and just enough humor to keep us from crying in the pantry.

Today’s episode is a deep dive into one of my favorite metaphors ever:

👉 Your cup (what you carry)
👉 Your crown (who you are)
👉 And why life feels wild when one of them gets knocked sideways

If you’ve ever felt drained, overwhelmed, over-capable but under-supported…
If your crown feels like it’s slipping…
If your nervous system is in a permanent “please don’t ask me one more thing” state…

If you’ve ever had a toddler or a falling bowl — literally or metaphorically — smash your crown completely off…

Then this episode is going to hit home in the most healing way.

Inside today’s conversation we explore:

✨ Why your brain needs more capacity than your current cup gives you
 ✨ How expectations stack like teetering cups (and what happens when they fall)
 ✨ Why your identity gets shaky when your body is overwhelmed
 ✨ The brain science behind “I’m fine”… when you’re not
 ✨ How to live at the Brim — not drained, not depleted, but restored
 ✨ What God says about your crown when life knocks it crooked
 ✨ Two powerful stories from my own week — broken bowls, broken plans, and the grace in it all
 ✨ How to let God rebuild you Kintsugi-style (gold in all the cracks)

We’re talking nervous system regulation, faith that meets you in the real moments, embodied peace, and the truth that your identity is secure even on the days your crown hits the floor.

Oh — and there may be an honest confession about Halloween candy.
You’re welcome.

This episode won’t just encourage you — it’ll physiologically shift something in your body.
Because peace is not a theory.
It’s an experience.

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If today’s episode stirred something in you — if you’re tired of living drained, carrying too much, or trying to keep your crown straight with a half-empty cup — then I’d love to invite you into something brand new.

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This is where we’ll learn to actually live at the brim together.
Not in theory.
Not in exhaustion.
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