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The Strong One Learns to Rest

The Strong One Learns to Rest

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In this episode of The Hard Way Home, I talk about what happens when the body finally realizes it’s safe — and how uncomfortable that can be when you’ve spent your entire life being “the strong one.”

We explore survival wiring, cortisol, hyper-independence, restless sleep, weight gain, and the quiet shock of finally resting after years of living in fight-or-flight. This episode is for the ones who held it all together for everyone else… and are just now learning how to soften without losing themselves.

Softness doesn’t mean weak.
Sometimes, it means you survived long enough to rest.

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