Clothing, appearance, personal style — these aspects of our lives are breeding grounds for perfectionism and people pleasing.

As in other areas. when we get stuck on picture-perfect visions, we often lose any and all connection to our intuition.

This week’s guest, Dacy Gillespie of Mindful Closet, is here to teach us both how to create our own personal style using intuition and why that process is so important.

We cover lots of ground in this conversation — from capitalism to patriarchy to toxic body ideals — so settle in and get ready to embrace what personal style looks like to you.

How much time do you actually spend considering your values?

Have you given much thought to what they are — or might be?

If asked, could you list them?

That’s values 101.

Now, it’s time for some extra credit.

Are you living in alignment with your values?

How are you embodying them and putting them into action?

Values are a lived experience, and now’s the time to live yours.

Resentment has been a big part of 2020 for so many of us.

We’re bound to have some negative feelings about all that we’ve lost, mourned, and missed out on.

Much as we might like to, we can’t bypass or fast forward through these negative feelings, but we can stop ourselves from falling down a bottomless rabbit hole.

How might we do that, you ask?

By tapping into resentment’s antidote, gratitude.

And if you’re wondering what gratitude even looks like in 2020 and beyond, then this is the conversation for you.

☑️The new shower curtain that you’ve been meaning to hang

☑️The replacement battery that needs to go in the smoke detector

☑️The medical bill sitting on the counter for the past month that you’ve been meaning to pay

☑️The low tire pressure indicator in your car that you’ve been meaning to address

These are all examples of tolerations, i.e. the things we’re tolerating — from the tiniest to the most fundamental.

No matter how big or small, tolerations nag at us, annoy us, and zap our energy.

Since we’re already scraping the bottom of the energy barrel these days, anything out of the ordinary has the potential to derail us and send us spiraling.

Get ready to exert control and influence over your tolerations where you can and join us in eliminating your most egregious tolerations within the next 30 days.

There are A LOT of reasons why work feels neverending right now, fam.

COVID has made it really easy to become a workaholic — or to justify our workaholism.

For many of us, working from home is really testing our boundaries — or lack thereof.

What may have started as a healthy coping mechanism of throwing ourselves into our work life has likely gone off the rails 8 months later.

So, how do we renegotiate our boundaries, find ways to rest, and learn other skills for dealing with COVID-related stress and anxiety, you ask?

Pop in your earbuds now for the lowdown!

During this particular time — in the world and in our lives — there have been a couple of B words that have been popping up repeatedly for Ashley and I, namely boundaries and burnout.

Often, burnout can result, at least in part, due to a lack of boundaries.

In this week’s episode, we explore how to battle burnout, from identifying risk factors to intervening when we’re all the way in it.

Because we know that community can serve as a barrier against burnout, pop in your earbuds, and spend some time with the Fam.

We’re diving deep into self-care today, fam, and honestly, this conversation couldn’t have come at a better time.

Just to be clear, we’re not talking about the Instagram-picture-perfect-$500-investment kind of self-care.

We’re talking real deal, what-works-best-for-you-not-someone-else self-care.

Our guest this week, Christy Tending, is an activist, educator, writer, and self-care mentor who helps people-pleasers like us create sustainable, anti-capitalist self-care in service of collective liberation. Dayum!

Get ready for a big ol’ permission slip to own your inherent power and get a little inconvenient.

So, we’ve made it to the 10th (or 100th) month of 2020, and the hits just keep coming.

The effects of allthethings — COVID, quarantine, police violence and protests, the election — are compounding, and our standard coping go-to’s just aren’t cutting it anymore.

We need to switch up our practices, so pop in your earbuds and get the scoop on what exactly is getting us through right now.

Us perfectionists, people pleasers, artists, creatives, and empaths, we’re sensitive souls, and we often tend to gravitate toward service-based work as part of our worthiness seeking.

In order to avoid one big B on our path of service, burnout, we need lots of the other big B, boundaries.

Today’s guest, witch and coach Cait Byrnes, is here to teach all of us sensitive souls how to harness the power of the moon and its energy to supercharge our healing and personal growth.

Get ready to learn about all of Cait’s favorite woo practices, which are just another set of tools for self-reflection.

Always. Be. Upleveling.

Always be striving.

Reaching for more, more, MORE.

That’s the perfectionist way, right?

Can we focus on our own growth without being perfectionistic, radical, or rigid?

Is that even possible?

In this episode, we explore ways to uplevel with more ease, sustainability, and flow.