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Quitting isn’t always failure; it can be protection.

Feeling the urge to leave often signals that something feels unsafe, unsteady, or overwhelming. Staying should never feel forced; it should feel supported, natural, and safe enough to continue.

Welcome to The RISE Experience, a podcast for women who are rebuilding trust with themselves — in health, leadership, faith, and everyday life. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, and to listen again. Here, identity, faith, the body, and quiet inner wisdom matter. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.

Episode Highlights

In this episode, I talk about the idea that quitting is often seen as a personal failure but can actually be a protective response when feeling unsafe or unsteady, highlighting that staying in a situation should feel natural and supported rather than heroic or pressured, and emphasizing the importance of trusting the body’s cues, prioritizing internal safety over external pressure, allowing imperfection, embracing the messiness in the middle, and remaining in a safe space to support both personal and professional growth.

Episode Outline

• Understanding the nature of quitting and staying.
• The role of safety in feeling able to stay.
• Faith and the value of staying grounded.
• The impact of external pressure vs. internal safety.
• The importance of trusting oneself and listening to the body.
• Structure and support as tools for sustainable staying.
• Embracing imperfection and the messy middle.
• Compassion, curiosity, and understanding in staying.
• Learning to stay as a practice and skill.
• Leadership, faith, and staying in the middle of growth
  
  
  

Episode Chapters

00:00 Welcome to The Rise Experience

00:30 Rethinking Quitting as Protection, Not Failure

02:10 When the Nervous System Chooses to Leave

03:20 Consistency vs. Feeling Safe Enough to Stay

04:30 Faith, Abiding, and Staying Grounded in God

05:40 Trusting Your Body’s Cues and Letting Go of Shame

06:40 Structure as Support, Not a Trap

07:40 Embracing the Messy Middle of Growth

08:40 Curiosity, Compassion, and Learning to Stay

09:30 You Don’t Have to Earn the Right to Stay

09:54 Closing Prayer and Encouragement to Keep Rising

Action Taken

• Reflect and journal where quitting usually occurs and whether leaving was protective or a preference
• Practice staying gently and imperfectly, pause, recalibrate, and try again rather than restarting completely.
  
  
  

Conclusion

Staying isn’t about willpower, perfection, or proving something. It’s about cultivating internal safety, trusting your body, and allowing growth to unfold in its own rhythm.

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Thank you for listening. May this episode remind you that choosing to stay can be a cou