When you don't protect your energy, you end up feeling exhausted and depleted. Whether you're trying to get a project/big dream out into the world, heal conflict in a relationship, or convince people of the necessity of social change, it's vitally important to protect your energy.

There’s a story behind this podcast episode: a story that intertwines what we learned about friendships during our formative years, with caring what other people think. The two are connected, and in this podcast episode I share how I spent years carrying around emotional armor and buying into a good-bad binary where people were concerned (one that I had to drop, if I wanted to truly love and be loved).

We all do it—stick with habits, patterns, or choices that aren’t working. But at some point, we have to interrupt the cycle.
It takes real courage to stop doing what isn’t working and say, “This isn’t working—and I’m the one keeping it going.”

I have been saying, "The resistance needs your resilience." We cannot draw water from an empty well. We cannot give what we do not have. This means that it's imperative for all of us to do our own personal work to vent the excess stress and fear that keeps us from feeling capable of creating positive change.