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Understanding Our Resistance to Ease

"We are living in this collective time where we've shifted from the hustle culture going a thousand miles an hour and rest being for the weary to having an uptick of wellness practices and trends." Yet research shows most senior leaders battle overwhelm and burnout.  Although "individuals with a relaxed nervous system exhibit improved decision making abilities.” we resist ease because busyness is equated with worth. This comes at great cost to wisdom and fulfillment.

What Embracing Ease Really Means

I define ease as “alignment, bringing us a sentiment of inner peace” plus presence, comfort, intentional preparation, freedom from worry, coherence and opening to abundance. As I’ve learned, “ease really means how are you living in alignment? And how are you trusting your brilliance, your genius, your story?”

How to Embrace Ease

Over 12 years, I’ve redefined ease through three-year chapters, moving between alignment and preparing to show up as my future self. This ongoing evolution highlights that “Embracing ease isn’t easy. But it is necessary.”

Tune in to the full podcast episode for an in-depth exploration of easy and how to integrate more of it in your life.

Intention to action

It’s time to take what you learned from my story and turn insight into action. Click on each dropdown for an intention and action to bring start embracing ease:

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