Why do we take the things we love and turn them into another performance? I used to surf with one goal: get off the longboard, move to shortboard, progress as fast as possible. It took two broken noses, a burnout, and two years away from the water to realize I'd been chasing an image of myself instead of actually enjoying being in the ocean.

In this episode, I explore:

• How we bring our performance mindset into the things that are supposed to heal us
• Why my body was sending me signals I refused to read (including two broken noses from the same board)
• The "gentle cult" of progression culture and what it took to finally see it from the outside
• Why letting go of the goal and choosing fun felt like the most rebellious thing I've done

💬 "My body had been sending all the signals in the world. I just wasn't listening."

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