How to Reclaim Your Energy and Identity Through Intentional Living
Because your life shouldn’t require constant coping
There’s a moment—often quiet, sometimes jarring—when you realize you’ve been living on autopilot. You’re managing life, not really living it. You’re functioning—but not feeling whole. And at some point, you stop recognizing the person staring back in the mirror.
This episode is about that moment. And more importantly, what comes next.
Rooted in my own lived experience, I introduce the H.O.M.E. framework—Habits, Others, Meaning, and Emotional Space—as a way to stop patching the leaks and start rebuilding from the inside out. This isn’t another checklist of self-care tactics. It’s a deeper invitation to examine the structure holding up your energy, your identity, and your ability to feel emotionally grounded.
We explore how co-regulation rewires the nervous system, why invisible expectations often weigh more than visible responsibilities, and how pretending to be okay slowly wears us down. Drawing from recent conversations with guests like Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Gretchen Rubin, I offer a compassionate, practical path for coming back to yourself.
Here’s what we dive into:
Listen ad free to a vulnerable, practical conversation about what it really means to come home to yourself.
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