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“I didn’t want to go back to old ways of being where I acted out of fear and scarcity; I wanted this to be a period where I finally, truly set my entire life and my work on a completely new trajectory.”
In this episode, I’m sharing what the last few years have actually been like, from discovering what was keeping me sick and learning how to treat it myself, to trying to heal while inside a relationship that was burning me out, to finally reaching the point I’m at now where I can feel myself, my intuition, and my capacity coming back online. I’m also talking about the grief of losing a relationship I thought would go the distance, realizing just how much the past few years cost me, and what happened when I finally stopped pushing and let myself rest and process. Because the truth is, doing the deeper work isn’t necessarily about doing more and forcing change. Oftentimes, it’s about creating the capacity to actually align with and receive what you’re working towards, and learning to trust in the inevitable unravelings along the way.
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What to listen for:
- Where I’ve been and why healing sometimes requires feeling worse first
- Discovering what was keeping me sick, and learning to heal myself
- Navigating life while feeling barely alive or even a part of reality
“It took two years of every other day injections to get to where I am now, and it got worse before it got better. Every single thing I’ve done to heal since I hemorrhaged, to heal on a physical level, has made me worse before I got better.”
- Trying to heal my body while being in a relationship that burned me out
- When your body crashes systemically, it takes time for it to really heal
- The joy of feeling myself and my intuition again after years
“The clouds didn’t just part, and the light didn’t just come back. I had to really sit with the grief of the relationship ending as well as the last three years being what they were and everything that they cost me.”
- The toll it takes when we don’t have the space to rest in challenging times
- Realizing that what I built while sick and compressed was misaligned
- Surrendering to trust rather than moving from fear and scarcity
“I just let it sit, and I’m so glad that I did because I really needed to stop pushing, to just sit and be with my feelings, be with my grief, process all of the things that were coming up.”
- Sinking into trust and choosing to make this period a real turning point
- Why personal capacity is crucial to creating change, and what it takes to grow it
- Doing the deeper healing work to create more freedom and leverage
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About your host:
Stephenie Zamora is the Founder and Head Change Agent at Choose Your Calling, a new revolution in purpose, contribution, and creative solutions for systemic and social justice issues. She’s a Forward Compatibility Consultant and Mentor who has worked for the past two decades at the intersection of purpose, business, and systemic change, helping individuals, thought leaders, and organizations design lives and businesses that actually hold up in the world we’re moving into. Through her mentorship and consulting work, she partners with founders, social innovators, and visionaries who are designing bodies of work that disrupt systems of harm while actively building what the world needs next. Learn more at www.chooseyourcalling.com.