The Notion of You

By Systems & Self Trust |Tashi J| Natural Alignment

The Notion of You is a podcast about rebuilding self-trust, emotional regulation, and intuitive living after identity loss, pressure, or burnout. Host Tashi Jones explores nervous system awareness, jo... more

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March 11, 2026Episode 13: Mom Guilt vs Self-Priority: How to Overcome Mom Guilt Without Losing Yourself
Episode Snapshot: If you’ve ever wondered how to overcome mom guilt without feeling selfish, this episode is for you. We unpack the old beliefs driving guilt and show you how self-priority creates calmer, more connected motherhood.
What You’ll Learn
Why mom guilt is often an inherited belief, not a personal failure
How to overcome mom guilt by challenging self-sacrificing narratives
The nervous system cost of ignoring your own needs
Practical ways to prioritize yourself without losing connection with your family
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 — Creating safety around the experience of mom guilt
3:40 — A real-life moment that revealed my struggle with self-priority
8:18 — The hidden beliefs that make it hard to overcome mom guilt
13:54 — Reframing self-priority as essential, not selfish
20:13 — A practical exercise to help you overcome mom guilt this week
The Lesson
Section One: Understanding Mom Guilt: Before you can learn how to overcome mom guilt, you need to understand where it comes from. Guilt often reflects an old belief that a “good mom” sacrifices everything. When you choose rest or self-care, that belief gets triggered — not because you are failing, but because you are disrupting the script.
Section Two: Why Self-Sacrifice Is Not Sustainable: Chronic self-sacrifice disconnects you from your body, your intuition, and your sense of identity. When you ignore your needs long enough, your nervous system responds with anxiety, exhaustion, and overwhelm. Learning how to overcome mom guilt begins with recognizing this pattern.
Section Three: The Truth About Self-Priority: Self-priority is not selfishness. It is nervous system regulation. It is modeling boundaries and self-respect for your children. When you regulate yourself, you create emotional safety in your home. Your thriving supports your family.
Section Four: Rewriting the “Good Mom” Belief: Write down one belief you hold about what a “good mom” should be. Ask yourself whether it supports your mental and emotional health. Replace it with a belief that honors both motherhood and your humanity. This is a foundational step in how to overcome mom guilt long term.
Section Five: Rebuilding Self-Trust: Overcoming mom guilt is not about eliminating emotion. It is about rebuilding trust with yourself. Small, consistent acts of self-honoring create grounded progress. When you listen to your body and honor your limits, guilt loses its power.
Quote Worth Remembering
“I easily give my daughter this love and compassion and grace… yet I struggle to turn that same level of acceptance on myself.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self-trust. → Read the full framework here.
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If you’re ready to overcome mom guilt and rebuild trust with yourself, start by rewriting your definition of a “good mom” this week — and take one small self-prioritizing action that aligns with it.
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26min
March 04, 2026Episode 12: Motherhood and Identity: How to Find Yourself Again as a Mom
Reclaiming your sense of self without sacrificing the mother you’ve become.
Episode Snapshot: Motherhood and identity can feel at odds when you’ve slowly disappeared into roles and responsibilities. In this episode, you’ll learn how to reconnect with yourself, rebuild self-trust, and feel whole again. Without sacrificing the love you have for your children.
What You’ll Learn
Why motherhood and identity often feel in conflict
How constant caregiving impacts your nervous system and sense of self
A healthier definition of what it means to be a “good mother”
Practical steps to reconnect with your identity in motherhood
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Grounding and creating space for overwhelmed moms
3:35 The moment I realized I didn’t recognize myself anymore
9:11 How motherhood rewires your nervous system
15:00 Redefining identity in motherhood
21:09 A simple practice to begin finding yourself again
The Lesson
Section One: Why motherhood and identity feel fragile: The constant demands of caregiving, societal expectations, and emotional labor can slowly disconnect you from who you are outside of being “mom.”
Section Two: From self-sacrifice to self-trust: Reframing motherhood so that identity and wholeness coexist instead of compete.
Section Three: Nervous system awareness and identity loss: Understanding why rest can feel uncomfortable. And why reclaiming your identity takes patience.
Section Four: Practical ways to reconnect with yourself as a mom: Micro-pleasures, solo time, journaling, and revisiting passions in sustainable ways.
Section Five: Integration: honoring your needs without guilt: Learning how to model wholeness for your children while rebuilding your own identity.
Quote Worth Remembering
“You are not losing yourself in motherhood, you are learning how to integrate who you’ve always been with who you’re becoming.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self-trust. → Read the full framework here.
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If motherhood and identity have felt tangled for you, choose one small need this week and honor it. Then share this episode with a mom who needs permission to remember herself.
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26min
February 25, 2026Episode 11: How to Stop Overanalyzing and Start Living
Episode Snapshot: If you constantly replay decisions, create endless pros-and-cons lists, and still feel stuck, you’re not broken. In this episode, you’ll learn how to stop overanalyzing and start living by shifting from mental control to embodied action.
What You’ll Learn
Why overanalyzing is often anxiety disguised as control
How constant overthinking keeps your nervous system in freeze
A simple feel → choose → act framework to stop spiraling
How imperfect action builds real self-trust and momentum
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 — Grounding into the body and the truth about anxiety disguised as control
3:44 — The personal story of planning instead of living
9:13 — Overanalysis as a nervous system freeze response
13:27 — The feel → choose → act framework explained
22:51 — Turning one stuck decision into embodied movement
The Lesson
Section One: Why overanalyzing feels productive but actually increases anxiety
Section Two: The nervous system connection between overthinking and freeze
Section Three: How self-trust is built through action, not perfect clarity
Section Four: The feel → choose → act framework to stop overanalyzing
Section Five: Practical tools: time-boxing decisions and choosing “good enough”
Quote Worth Remembering
"Action is where self-trust grows."
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to Motherhood & Identity: Finding Yourself in the Mess Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If this episode helped you stop overanalyzing and start living, choose one small action you’ve been delaying this week — then share your win or message me so we can celebrate your forward movement together.
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29min
February 18, 2026Episode 10: When You Feel Emotionally Numb: How to Begin Again
Reconnecting with yourself after emotional shutdown
Episode Snapshot: If you feel emotionally numb, flat, or disconnected, you are not broken. In this episode, we explore how to rebuild self-trust when you feel emotionally numb using small, safe, nervous-system-aware steps that help you begin again gently.
What You’ll Learn
Why emotional numbness is a nervous system response to overload
How to rebuild self-trust when you feel emotionally numb
The difference between forcing feelings and creating safety
Small daily practices that help you reconnect with yourself
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 — If you feel nothing right now, this episode is for you
4:14 — The photo that made me realize I wasn’t fully here
10:21 — Numbness isn’t absence. It’s compression.
12:52 — Why you can’t think your way back to aliveness
23:22 — The two-question micro-practice that rebuilds self-trust
The Lesson
Section One: Emotional Numbness Is Protection: When you feel emotionally numb, it is often your nervous system protecting you from prolonged stress, exhaustion, or overstimulation.
Section Two: You Cannot Think Your Way Back: Rebuilding self-trust when you feel emotionally numb begins in the body, not the mind. Sensation comes before emotion.
Section Three: Small Noticing Builds Capacity: Naming one sensation or one honest emotion increases nervous system safety and strengthens self-trust.
Section Four: Gentle Reentry Creates Safety: Slow, predictable, embodied practices allow emotional reconnection without overwhelm.
Section Five: Beginning Again Starts Small: You do not need a breakthrough to feel alive again. You begin rebuilding self-trust through awareness, presence, and tiny consistent actions.
Quote Worth Remembering
“You don’t go from emotionally numb to fully alive in one leap. You begin by noticing.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to How to Stop Overanalyzing and Start Living Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If you’ve been feeling ready to begin again, share one word that describes how you feel today and begin rebuilding self-trust from there.
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28min
February 11, 2026Episode 9: Daily Rituals for Coming Home to Yourself
Episode Snapshot: If you feel disconnected from yourself and stuck on autopilot, you’re not broken. In this episode, we explore how daily rituals for self-trust help calm your nervous system, rebuild confidence, and gently guide you back home to yourself.
What You’ll Learn
Why daily rituals for self-trust work at the nervous system level
How small, repeatable practices rebuild confidence and inner steadiness
Simple body, mind, and environment rituals you can start today
How consistency creates lasting self-connection without overhauling your life
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Soft arrival and grounding into the body
3:15 The hidden cost of living on autopilot
7:34 Why rituals rebuild trust at the nervous system level
9:10 Simple ritual categories that work in real life
18:20 How small promises kept change how you relate to yourself
The Lesson
Section One: Self-trust is not a mindset issue. It is a nervous system issue. When your body feels rushed, overwhelmed, or disconnected, no amount of positive thinking restores safety. Daily rituals for self-trust work because they send consistent signals of safety to your body.
Section Two: Your nervous system learns through repetition, not intensity. Tiny daily rituals such as breathwork, hand-to-heart grounding, or intentional scent use teach your body that you are listening and responding. Over time, this builds internal reliability.
Section Three: Autopilot protects you from overwhelm, but long-term disconnection creates self-doubt. Daily rituals interrupt autopilot and restore presence without requiring dramatic life changes.
Section Four: Practical daily rituals for self-trust can be grouped into three areas:
Body rituals such as breath, grounding touch, or gentle movement
Mind rituals such as one-sentence journaling or emotional check-ins
Environment rituals such as lighting a candle or diffusing essential oils to signal transition
These small anchors create rhythm and safety in your day.
Section Five: Confidence does not come from certainty. It comes from consistency. Each time you return to yourself through a daily ritual, you shorten the gap between noticing and responding. That is how self-trust is rebuilt.
Quote Worth Remembering
“Self-trust is built through daily rituals, not dramatic breakthroughs.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to When your feel emotionally numb Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
Choose one daily ritual for self-trust this week and practice it every day. Notice how returning to yourself in small ways begins to shift how safe and steady you feel inside your own life.
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26min
February 04, 2026Episode 8: Steal my Calm System
The Scattered to Steady Workbook
Episode Snapshot: If you’ve been wondering how to feel less scattered when life feels overwhelming, this episode walks you through a calm, body-led system that helps you move from chaos to clarity without pushing harder. Steady is possible, even when your capacity is low.
What You’ll Learn
Why feeling scattered is a nervous system signal, not a productivity failure
How to feel less scattered without forcing yourself to “catch up”
The 3-step Scattered to Steady system for calm structure
How rebuilding self-trust starts with containment, not discipline
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 — Grounding and naming the quiet overwhelm so many women live with
1:49 — The body-based moment that sparked the Scattered to Steady system
6:17 — Why “just getting organized” keeps failing you
10:04 — The three internal states women cycle through: survival, scattered, steady
12:56 — How structure becomes an act of self-trust, not self-control
The Lesson
Section One: Why You Feel Scattered: Feeling scattered isn’t about laziness or lack of discipline. It’s what happens when your nervous system has been holding too much without support. We unpack why overwhelm is often a sign you need containment, not more pressure.
Section Two: Survival Mode vs Steady Living: Many women operate in survival mode for years. This section explains how chronic mental load turns into disconnection, decision fatigue, and the constant feeling of being behind.
Section Three: The Scattered to Steady Framework: If you’ve been searching for how to feel less scattered, this is the core system. Learn the three steps: unloading what you’re holding, gentle prioritization, and building nervous-system-safe structure.
Section Four: Regulation Before Productivity: Calm doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from supporting your body first. Discover how regulation and small supportive rituals create sustainable clarity.
Section Five: From Steady to Self-Trust: Once you feel less scattered, deeper healing becomes possible. Steady creates the foundation for rebuilding self-trust and reconnecting with your authentic identity.
Quote Worth Remembering
“You are not scattered because you’re failing. You’re scattered because you’ve been carrying too much without support.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to Steal my Calm System Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If you’re ready to feel less scattered and build calm that lasts, download the free Scattered to Steady Workbook and start with the first page today.
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26min
December 31, 2025Episode 7: The Embarrassing Truth About Self-Sabotage
How to Stop Self-Sabotage and Rebuild Self-Trust Before the New Year
Episode Snapshot: If you’re ending the year feeling numb, disconnected, or stuck in habits you wish you could change, you’re not broken. In this episode, we explore how to stop self-sabotage by replacing shame with awareness and rebuilding self-trust from the inside out.
What You’ll Learn about Self-Sabotage
What self-sabotage really is and why it’s not a personal failure
How shame keeps women stuck in self-sabotaging habits
The connection between nervous system protection and self-sabotage
How to stop self-sabotage by tracking patterns with compassion
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Opening grounding and creating a shame-free space
2:25 The quiet habits that made me disconnect from myself
5:02 What self-sabotage really is and why it once kept you safe
7:25 Why shame freezes change and curiosity restores choice
12:27 A gentle practice to track one habit and listen to what it’s asking for
The Lesson
Section One: What Self-Sabotage Really Means: Self-sabotage is not self-destruction. It is self-protection that has outlived its usefulness. Many of our habits were once intelligent coping mechanisms. Learning how to stop self-sabotage begins with recognizing that these patterns were formed to keep you safe.
Section Two: Why Shame Keeps You in the Loop: Shame contracts the body and reinforces the very behaviors you’re trying to change. When you believe you are the problem, you stop observing the pattern. Releasing shame creates space for awareness, which is the first step in how to stop self-sabotage.
Section Three: Common Patterns of Self-Sabotage: Avoidance. Over-researching instead of deciding. Numbing through scrolling or busyness. Perfectionism. Over-functioning for others. These patterns are signs of disconnection, not weakness.
Section Four: How to Stop Self-Sabotage Gently: Instead of forcing change, begin tracking one habit without judgment. Notice what you were feeling before it happened. Ask what need it was trying to meet. This compassionate awareness disrupts the cycle more effectively than discipline ever could.
Section Five: Rebuilding Self-Trust Before the New Year: As the year closes, you don’t need another resolution. You need reconnection. Self-trust is rebuilt through small, safe moments of honesty. Awareness is not passive. It is courageous.
Quote Worth Remembering "You cannot hate yourself into becoming someone new. You can only love yourself into remembering who you already are.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to Steal my Calm System Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
Listen to Episode 7 and begin tracking one habit this week without judgment. If you’re ready for deeper support, explore Return to Wholeness and close the year from a grounded place.
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20min
December 24, 2025Episode 6: Real Help Right Now
Nervous System Regulation for Women in Survival Mode
Episode Snapshot
If you’ve been functioning but feel disconnected from yourself, this episode teaches nervous system regulation for women who are stuck in survival mode. Learn simple rituals that calm overwhelm and rebuild self-trust from the inside out.
What You’ll Learn
• Why nervous system regulation for women is the missing piece in self-trust
• How survival mode disrupts clarity and intuition
• The difference between routines and regulation rituals
• Simple grounding practices you can use immediately to reduce overwhelm
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Opening grounding and invitation to pause
1:58 A personal story of dysregulation and the moment everything shifted
6:58 Nervous system basics and why self-trust disappears in survival mode
13:13 The Regulate, Ritualize, Reconnect framework
24:21 A practical ritual you can use right now and how to integrate it
The Lesson
Section One: Why so many women are functioning but stuck in survival mode. How chronic stress disconnects you from your body
Section Two: Nervous system regulation for women explained simply, and how overwhelm impacts clarity and decision-making
Section Three: The core truth: self-trust is a regulated state, not a mindset shift
Section Four: How sensory rituals support nervous system regulation and create emotional stability
Section Five: How consistent regulation leads to reconnection, stronger boundaries, and coming home to yourself
Quote Worth Remembering
“Self-trust begins the moment your nervous system feels safe enough to listen.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to The Embarrassing Truth about Self-Sabotage Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If this episode resonated, download the free Scattered to Steady workbook. Begin regulating your nervous system to move from survival mode to self-trust.
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30min
December 17, 2025Episode 5: Facing Your Biggest Fear
How Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt Keep You Performing Instead of Living
Episode Snapshot: If you struggle with fear of failure and self-doubt, especially in environments where you feel pressure to perform, this episode is for you. You’ll learn why fear isn’t weakness, it’s protection, and how small shifts rebuild self-trust and emotional peace.
What You’ll Learn About Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt
Why fear of failure is usually rooted in worthiness
How self-doubt keeps you stuck in performance mode
A healthier way to reframe failure
How to rebuild self-trust through small, safe steps
Key Moments in this Episode
0:00 Grounding into safety and slowing the nervous system
2:29 A personal story of fear, identity collapse, and self-trust loss
6:19 How fear disguises itself as logic, preparation, and responsibility
11:58 Reframing failure and redefining courage
18:42 Integration practice and the invitation to Return to Wholeness
The Lesson
Section One: Fear of failure is not weakness: it’s a learned protection response. When environments haven’t felt emotionally safe, your nervous system chooses performance over vulnerability.
Section Two: Self-doubt grows when you repeatedly override your truth. Performing for approval disconnects you from your authentic identity and reinforces internal insecurity.
Section Three: Failure is feedback, not a verdict. Separating your identity from your performance is the first step in rebuilding self-trust.
Section Four: Courage doesn’t require dramatic change. It begins with small, grounded acts that teach your nervous system it is safe to honor your truth.
Section Five: Support matters. Return to Wholeness provides gentle structure and daily practices to help you move through fear of failure and self-doubt without overwhelming your system. Just one step.
Quote Worth Remembering
“Fear isn’t stopping you because you’re incapable, it’s stopping you because you learned it wasn’t safe to trust yourself.”
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to Real Help Right Now Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If fear of failure and self-doubt are keeping you stuck, take one small step today. Listen to the episode — and support yourself with Return to Wholeness.
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23min
December 10, 2025Episode 4: Afraid to Be Seen? Rebuilding Self Trust for Women
How honesty becomes the doorway back to yourself
Episode Snapshot: If you feel disconnected, stuck in survival mode, or afraid to show your true self, this episode will help you understand why. Rebuilding self trust for women begins with naming the truth you’ve been hiding and learning how to feel safe being seen again.
What You’ll Learn About Rebuilding Self-Trust
Why fear of visibility keeps women disconnected from their intuition
How rebuilding self trust for women starts with radical honesty
What your nervous system does when you silence your truth
A simple embodied practice to soften fear and reconnect to yourself
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Creating safety and grounding the nervous system
3:14 The personal story of hiding and the fear of being seen
8:22 The three truths about rebuilding self trust for women
14:09 Guided breathwork and journaling practice
20:56 Why support and community accelerate self trust
The Lesson: In Fear
Section One: Why Women Are Afraid to Be Seen: Fear of being seen is not a confidence problem. It is protection. Many women learned early that honesty felt unsafe. So they stayed small. Rebuilding self trust for women begins by recognizing that hiding once served a purpose. Now it may be keeping you disconnected from who you truly are.
Section Two: The Cost of Silence: When you silence your truth, your body remembers. Over time, that silence becomes mental fog, emotional numbness, and spiritual disconnection. Rebuilding self trust for women starts by breaking the habit of self abandonment and choosing honesty instead.
Section Three: The Three Truth Framework: Rebuilding self trust for women requires three shifts: You cannot trust a self you continuously silence. Hiding is not safety. It is self abandonment. Naming your truth is the first act of self trust. You cannot heal what you refuse to name.
Section Four: Integration Practice: Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Ask yourself: What truth have I been afraid to speak? Breathe. Notice where fear lives. Let it soften. Self trust grows in these small, embodied moments.
Section Five: The Aligned Framework: Rebuilding self trust for women requires structure, not just insight. Return to Wholeness provides a grounded, repeatable way to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, and return to yourself when fear rises.
The membership mentioned in this episode is coming soon, make sure you are subscribed to my weekly Clarity Edit email to get the details, special release offers and bonuses.
Quote Worth Remembering
"If I showed my cracks, I thought I would lose love. But honesty was what finally set me free."
This episode is part of the Natural Alignment framework. A four-step method to regulate your nervous system, reconnect to your intuition, realign your identity, and rebuild self trust. → Read the full framework here.
Listen to Facing Your Biggest Fear Next
Links & Resources
First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.
If you are ready to stop hiding and begin rebuilding self trust in a supported, grounded way, get your framework today.
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22min

FAQs about The Notion of You:

How many episodes does The Notion of You have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.