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Who taught me I needed permission? What taught me I needed permission from somewhere outside of myself?Permission begins...
08/20/2026

Who taught me I needed permission? What taught me I needed permission from somewhere outside of myself?

Permission begins when you can see what is true without immediately trying to change it, explain it, justify it, or decide what it means.

And what does permission have to do with life, with leadership?

Everything.

What happens when we lean on others to make decisions that are innately intuitive to us?

What happens when we run so far from our authentic selves that the decisions we make no longer feel like they align with the lives we want, the careers, the relationships, the projects, and the vision?

When we allow ourselves to see how permission rules our lives, we see more deeply into our beliefs. We begin to understand what has been shaping our choices.

Permission was never about someone or something giving us the space, but by seeing that we already had it the whole time.

Read that again.Because somehow, here we are: in a place where a lottttt of high-achieving people decided that the commi...
07/15/2026

Read that again.

Because somehow, here we are: in a place where a lottttt of high-achieving people decided that the commitment to their goals meant the ability to override their own need to sometimes just “be.”

You know, our rhythm, cycle, our natural ways of being truly human.

Your best leadership lives inside your natural rhythm, not in spite of it.

The full conversation is on the blog. Link in bio.

I spent a long time believing that the harder I worked, the closer I was getting to something. More output meant more pr...
07/08/2026

I spent a long time believing that the harder I worked, the closer I was getting to something. More output meant more progress. More hours meant more dedication. More sacrifice meant more proof that I actually wanted this.

What I didn’t understand (and what the research in organizational psychology has been showing us for years) is that chronic stress doesn’t JUST exhaust you.

It literally degrades the quality of the very thing you’re working so hard to produce. Your decisions get smaller. Your thinking becomes narrower. Your capacity to lead, create, and see clearly slowly diminishes. And because you’re the one inside the depletion, you’re often the last one to notice.

So I want to ask you something: what is the point of working yourself to the bone if it isn’t even allowing you to work your best?

Rest isn’t the reward for finishing. It’s the condition that makes the work worth doing.

Save this for the next time your ambition tries to convince you that tired is the same as committed.

Drop a 🛑 if your body is currently making decisions that your routine, schedule, or calendar didn’t agree to.

Your nervous system has been waiting, sometimes for months, to complete the recovery cycle that you keep skipping in the...
07/01/2026

Your nervous system has been waiting, sometimes for months, to complete the recovery cycle that you keep skipping in the name of productivity, in the name of “being ambitious.”

When you understand that this is not a mindset issue but a rhythm issue, a biology issue, then you acknowledge what’s actually happening in your body.

The solution becomes that much clearer. It stops being “push harder” and starts being something a lot more honest, like “hey, it’s time to take a breath and slow down.”

Swipe through. Then go check in with yourself.

Full blog in bio.

Consistency without the capacity or the space
that is not discipline, it’s actually just working against yourself while ...
06/22/2026

Consistency without the capacity or the space
that is not discipline, it’s actually just working against yourself while wearing the “I’m just ambitious” slogan as a disguise.

Your rhythm deserves your respect, and so does the work you’re trying to do inside of it.

Read more in the full blog in the link in bio.

There was a time when I thought leadership was only related to career. Or it was about having the answers.About being ca...
06/19/2026

There was a time when I thought leadership was only related to career. Or it was about having the answers.

About being capable enough, prepared enough, productive enough, successful enough.

I thought if I could just learn a little more, achieve a little more, or hold everything together a little better, I would finally arrive at some version of myself that felt complete. Ready. “Right.”

But it’s funny because what I discovered instead was that many of the things I was trying to solve had nothing to do with leadership or success.

They were relationship problems.

My relationship with rest.
My relationship with worth.
My relationship with asking for help.
My relationship with being heard.

And over the years, I noticed the same thing showing up in the women, leaders, founders, and business owners I worked with.

Brilliant people. Compassionate people. People with incredible visions


They were carrying invisible stories that shaped how they delegated, communicated, made decisions, trusted others, and showed up for themselves.

Stories that often began long before they ever started a business.

That realization changed everything for me. Because it meant leadership was never just about success or being an expert in a field.

It was about understanding the human being underneath it all.

That is why Psychology of The Heartℱ exists.

Because I believe leadership goes beyond career. It’s how we wake up in the morning. How we lead ourselves in the dark. How we shine in cramped spaces. It’s honest, and it’s raw, and it’s human.

Leadership can create success, but it’s only sustainable when we’re honest about what we carry.

Honest about what drives us.

Honest about the patterns that shape our lives until we are willing to look at them.

I am still learning. I’m still growing.

And, I’m still uncovering new layers of myself.
But one thing I know for certain is this:

The more fully we become ourselves, the easier it becomes to build a life and career that actually fits.

So I’ll leave you with the same question I often ask myself:

What part of you already knows the truth, but is still waiting for permission to be heard?

Are you just ignoring the season you’re in? Most leadership frameworks are about being a business owner, making more mon...
06/09/2026

Are you just ignoring the season you’re in?

Most leadership frameworks are about being a business owner, making more money, and having the most productive teams.

Well, I’m here to tell you that is totally BS. Leadership comes in seasons, and whether you’re a business owner or not, those seasons run your life.

Life really is all about doing the “right thing in the right season.”

There’s activation and then there’s rest. There’s expansion and there’s integration.

Your nervous system runs on rhythm. It dances to the music of your environment. It feeds off of your space.

And when you try to stay in one season indefinitely, your decisions start carrying over emotions, actions, and things that no longer serve the season you’re actually in.

That looks like rushing to find the ‘answer” when your body is really asking for rest.

It looks like reactive pivots, decisions, conversations. So not only are you feeling like a cup overfilling, your communication, your world around you just starts responding to your overwhelm.

Because you’re trying to bloom in a season that was built for rest.

It’s time to meet yourself where you are.

Swipe through the four leadership seasons and ask yourself honestly: which one are you in, and are you actually honoring it?

â€ïžâ€đŸ”„ Full blog at the link in bio.

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