There is a version of you that learned to dim. To be digestible. To be desirable but not disruptive. Confident but not inconvenient. Magnetic but manageable. And somewhere along the way, your fire got quieter.

In this episode, we're talking about what it means to reclaim your fire - not as performance, not for validation, not for attention - but as embodiment.

This is not about ego or superiority or being "a lot." It's about sovereignty...presence...congruence.

If you've been negotiating your own sexiness to stay chosen. If you've been cooling yourself to protect someone else's comfort. If you feel something in you flickering back to life...

this conversation is for you.

You don't need permission to stop betraying your own fire.

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What happens when you're the only one doing the repair work?

When accountability feels mandatory for you, but optional for them?

In this episode, Jes explores the quiet imbalance that happens when one person consistently reflects, apologizes, and grows...while the other deflects, reframes, or disappears.

This isn't about villainizing anyone. It's about clarity.

You'll hear this truth woven throughout:

"Accountability is not something you extract from someone. It's something they choose...or don't. And when they don't, you choose what happens next."

This episode is about releasing the chase...reclaiming your energy...adjusting your participation instead of negotiating your reality.

If you've ever felt exhausted trying to explain yourself into being understood...this conversation is for you.

Reflection Questions:

• Where are you still waiting for someone else to validate what you already know?
• What has chasing accountability cost you?
• What would shift if you stopped waiting -- not in anger but in clarity?

Connect + Support:

If this episode landed in a place where you felt moved, I hope it helps you breathe a little bit better.

As always, follow, rate, and review the show -- be part of this wonderful little community's growth. And make sure to share this and any other episode with those you love and care about and on social media.

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Website: https://www.theartofshowingup.org/

**CONTENT NOTE**

Before you listen: This episode includes personal reflections on abuse/abusive relationships, panic attacks, and self-harm. No graphic details are shared, but the impact is discussed honestly. Please listen at your own pace and prioritize your emotional well-being.

This is not a gentle episode.

In this raw and deeply personal conversation, Jes speaks openly about settling into a life that was quietly killing her -- staying small, becoming the "yes-man," living inside an abusive relationship, experiencing panic attacks, and losing herself in the process.

This is a wake-up call for anyone living on autopilot.

For anyone functioning but not fulfilled.

For anyone whose body is screaming while their mouth keeps saying, "I'm fine."

You don't have to burn your life down. But you do have to make one move.

Reflection Prompt:

If you weren't afraid of being left, what would you change?

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If this episode found you at a place where you felt moved by the conversation, I hope it helps you breathe a little easier too.

As always, follow, rate, and review the show -- be part of this little community's growth. And make sure to share too.

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"Sometimes the hardest part of a moment isn't the moment itself - it's what hits afterward."

In this episode of The Art of Showing Up, Jes explores the experience of emotional hangovers - the quiet heaviness, fog, tenderness, or irritability that shows up after you've felt deeply, held space, had a hard conversation, or stayed present through something meaningful.

Emotional hangovers aren't weakness. They're processing.

If you've ever wondered, "Why did that wreck me later?" or "Why do I feel off when nothing is wrong?" or "why do i need electrolytes for my soul today?"

This episode is for you.

Reflection Reminder:

Emotional hangovers don't mean you did too much. They mean you showed up.

Connect + Support:

If this episode found you at the edge of something, I hope it helps you breathe a little easier.

As always, follow, rate, and review the show -- it helps others find their way here too.

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There are moments in life when showing up doesn't mean trying harder -- it means letting go. In this raw and honest episode, Jes explores the courage it takes to release what's weighing us down: old versions of ourselves, relationships that no longer fit, dreams that once made sense but now keep us small.

Letting go isn't failure. It's transformation. It's not about forgetting or erasing what mattered -- it's about honoring it, grieving it, and creating space for what's next.

Through personal reflection, storytelling, and quiet truth-telling, Jes unpacks what happens in the moments before release, the grief that follows, and the peace that grows in ints place. Because sometimes, showing up looks a lot like setting something down.

Reflection Questions:

1. What are you still carrying that no longer belongs to the person you're becoming?
2. Where in your life could you choose peace over guilt -- and what might that open up for you?

Connect + Support:

If this episode found you at the edge of something, I hope it helps you breathe a little easier.

As always, follow, rate and review the show -- it helps others find their way here too.

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In this episode, Jes dives into the heart-racing, stomach-flipping moment when a wild idea shows up - the kind that feels too big too bold, too chaotic, too out-of-your-league...and somehow still...exactly right.

This episode explores what it looks like to say yes before you feel ready, why the body panics when the soul expands, and how tiny acts of micro-bravery can build the courage needed to step into something new.

Jes shares the story of starting this very podcast -- how unprepared she felt, how much she doubted herself, and how choosing to say yes anyway, has changed her trajectory.

This is an episode for anyone who's sitting on a dream they're quietly terrified of, a calling they can't shake, or a wild idea that keeps tapping on their shoulder asking for a chance.

Listener Reflection:

What wild idea keeps tapping you on the shoulder -- and what is the smallest yes you can offer it today?

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thejessrick

Website: theartofshowingup.org

If this episode nudged you, grounded you, or encouraged the wild idea you've been afraid to name -- please share it with someone who needs the reminder that courage doesn't require readiness. It's how we keep this beautiful community growing and strong.

In this episode of The Art of Showing Up, Jes explores what it means to stay present when a relationship goes quiet -- not abruptly, but gradually. When texts slow down, plans stay vague, and emotional distance grows without explanation, silence can become confusing, painful, and deeply disorienting.

This conversation is about navigating that space with curiosity, compassion, and self-respect...without chasing or shrinking or disappearing from yourself.

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Website: theartofshowingup.org

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In this episode of The Art of Showing Up, Jes explores the quiet ways we disappear from ourselves while trying to love, support, and care for others. This is a grounding conversation about generosity, empathy, and emotional labor -- and what happens when those things aren't balanced with boundaries, voice, and self-respect.

Jes shares how ignoring her own needs slowly turned into resentment, silence, and losing her voice -- and how learning to listen to that resentment became a path back to herself. This episode reframes resentment as information, not failure, and offers a compassinate way to show up for others without self-erasure.

If you've ever felt exhausted, invisible, or quietly resentful while being "the strong one," this episode is for you.

LISTENER REFLECTION:

Where in your life are you showing up generously -- but quietly leaving yourself behind?

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Website: theartofshowingup.org

If this episode resonated, share it with someone who loves big and forgets themselves in the process.

Hello, Sweet Friends, this episode is very different from the norm.

There is a lot happening in life lately and i know that many of us are feeling many different things...sometimes all at once.

Without naming specifics or headlines, this conversation is focusing on our lived experiences...on what we are carrying right now: fear, anger, grief, hyper-vigilance, exhaustion, and that familiar quiet pressure to keep going anyway.

We're talking about staying human in inhumane moments, tending to your nervous system, and choosing presence over panic, care over collapse, and grounding over constant action.

If you're feeling shaken, guarded, or stretched thin - this is for you.

In this episode of The Art of Showing Up, Jes explores anticipatory grief - the quiet sadness that arrives before something ends or changes. The kind of grief that doesn't come from loss, but from love noticing change.

This conversation is for anyone who feels sad about something that's still here. For anyone holding pride and grief at the same time. For anyone struggling with guilt because "nothing bad is happening," yet their heart aches anyway.

Jes names anticipatory grief without attaching it to specifics, offering listeners language, permission, and compassion for mourning what's changing - not because it was wrong, but because it was GOOD.

This episode doesn't rush healing or offer fixes. It offers space. And a reminder that loving something or someone enough to miss it early is not weakness - it's reverence.

LISTENER REFLECTION:

What am I already missing - even though it hasn't ended?

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If this episode resonated, please share it with someone who's navigating change with a full heart.

And as always, rate, review, and subscribe! It helps our little corner of the world grow just a little bit more, sweet friends.