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Episode 45: What Happens When You Can’t Feel Your Own Energy?
Finding Your Way Back to the Place Where Life Flows Again

Have you ever felt like you’ve lost access to yourself?

Not because you’ve stopped caring. Not because you’ve lost your dreams. But because somewhere between trauma, grief, ADHD, caregiving, chronic stress, and simply being human, your energy became scattered.

In this deeply personal episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie shares the honest reality of what it feels like when life becomes an “anxiety salad”—when every responsibility, fear, hope, and decision lands at once, leaving you frozen, overwhelmed, and wondering, “Where did I go?”

Together, we’ll explore the difference between survival energy and life-giving energy, how our nervous system can temporarily disconnect us from our creativity and intuition, and why healing may not be about becoming someone new—but about returning to the most connected version of ourselves.

Along the way, Julie shares a deeply personal poem, reflections on grief, and the wisdom of the body.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from your own spark, this episode is a compassionate reminder that you haven’t lost yourself.

You may have simply lost access.   It happens.  To all of us sometimes.  Gently we can follow the hearts guidance back to ourselves. 

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Episode 44: Trusting Your Energy

Learning to Listen to Your Inner Knowing

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Have you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Or

sensed that a new direction was calling you—but doubted yourself because you couldn't explain

why? In this episode, we're exploring what it means to trust your energy. Not blindly. Not perfectly.

But with curiosity, discernment, and compassion. Our energy is constantly communicating with us.

It shows up in what energizes us, what drains us, what expands us, what contracts us, and what

repeatedly asks for our attention. Perhaps trusting your energy isn't about becoming more certain.

Perhaps it's about becoming more willing to listen.

Reflective questions for thought or journal prompts: 

1. What consistently gives me energy?

2. What consistently drains me?

3. Where do I feel most like myself?

4. Have there been times when my energy knew before I did?

5. What am I trying to talk myself out of?

6. If I truly loved myself, what would I stop arguing with myself about?

7. What is my energy trying to tell me right now?

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Season 5 • Episode 43

Protecting Your Energy

The Adapted Life: Finding Next

In this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie

explores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting

your energy — especially after loss, caregiving, burnout,

betrayal, trauma, or seasons of deep emotional

exhaustion.

As part of the Season 5 theme, Tending to the Energy, this

conversation reflects on what happens when we become

more aware of where our energy is going… and realize

that not everything deserves full access to us.

Julie shares gentle reflections about emotional labor,

boundaries, overstimulation, compassion fatigue, and the

pressure many sensitive people feel to constantly give,

explain, fix, or carry. This episode offers permission to

step back without guilt, to honor your nervous system,

and to recognize that boundaries are not punishment —

they are stewardship.

Through calming encouragement and thoughtful insight,

listeners are invited to consider:

• What restores versus drains them

• The hidden cost of constant giving

• Why protecting your peace is an act of healing

• How grief and trauma can change our capacity• The importance of creating space for recovery,

creativity, and presence

This episode is a reminder that protecting your energy is not selfish — it is part of tending the light within you. You, are not the weather, you dear friends, are the lighthouse. 

Take a breath, settle in, and join Julie for a gentle

conversation about honoring your limits, reclaiming your

peace, and learning that you are allowed to protect what is

sacred in you.

Music by Epidemic Sound

written, recorded, and created by Julie Hasselberger

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This is a guided meditation for anyone who is going through betrayal trauma or deep grief.  Or both. 

You are not the storm.  You are the lighthouse my friends.  This is a healing meditation, and a poem of encouragement. 

I Love you.  Please let me know if you like this meditation

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In this episode, we talk about what we do once we are experiencing awareness of our energy.  Not fixing it, but just being aware of gentle ways to tend to that energy. 

WHAT TENDING IS

Tending to your energy is not about fixing yourself.

It’s not about getting it right.

It’s about noticing…

and responding…

with care.

Moment by moment.  

Gentle self care, can sometimes lessen the impact that your energy may have on you.  

Join me as I continue to follow the intuitive path through deep and tragic grief towards where life is pulling me next.  And maybe you can resonate with this journey.  

I am so grateful that you are here. 

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In this guided meditation, we just take a few minutes to focus on where our energy has been sent today, and peacefully call some it back to us. 

Thank you for listening! 

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Have you ever reached the end of the day and wondered why you feel so exhausted… even when you didn’t “do” that much? In this episode, we explore a deeper understanding of energy—not just physical, but emotional, mental, and relational. Because often, it’s not about how much you’re doing… it’s aboutwhat you’re carrying. We gently look at the invisible ways your energy gets pulled—and begin to shift toward awareness. This is not about fixing everything. It’s about noticing. And from that place, beginning to understand what truly drains you… and what restores you.

In upcoming episodes we will work on not only awareness of your energy, but how to tend to it. 

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In this opening episode of the new season of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, I reflect on the quiet but powerful ways that connection can begin to illuminate even the darkest seasons of life.

Through personal storytelling, gentle reflection, I explore the idea that even the smallest spark — a moment of understanding, a shared story, or a simple human connection— can begin to move us toward healing.

This season focuses on tending to the energy of our lives: noticing what restores us, what drains us, and how turning inward can help guide us toward what comes next.Keywords

• grief healing

• trauma recovery

• mindfulness and meditation

• life transitions

• emotional healing

• healing through storytelling

• finding purpose after loss

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This is Julie Hasselberger.  Introducing Season 5 (not 60 of my podcast 

The adapted life, Finding Next 

This season, is about tending to the energy of being somewhere in the middle of healing from devastating loss and trauma, and the place of finding what comes next. 

A gentle stepping forward into coming home to your true self, and managing the chaos of a reality that no longer applies. 

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Hello, 

In this episode I speak tenderly about how meditation has transformed my journey with grief and pain.  This is my first ever guided meditation, so I am sure it won't be perfect.  

I have layered grief, and deep trauma.  It has significantly caused me so much difficulty in finding my way again.  This is why I added on "finding next", because this journey is just that, a journey. 

I hope this meditation brings you some calm.  I love visualizing the forest full of giant pines that we saw in the San Jacinto mountains in California where my daughter recently got married.

I'm trying to live each day, with the goal of existing and creating from my heart.  It is about all my broken heart can spare.  But I am here, dear ones.   I am here because I know I am not alone in my pain.  

Maybe we can step side by side and heal trauma together.  Maybe even one little moment is enough.  

Please feel free to leave me some feedback, you can find me also on you tube, instagram, Facebook, and here.  

I have been hoping to learn how to be a meditation guide, which is what I am working on now.  I thought...  why not just try. 

All my love, 

Julie 

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