Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 and a warm welcome back to the podcast 🤲🏼. It feels so good to open the Lunar New Year with my conversation with Jes, who has since become one of my closest friends after we first met to record this episode.

At the beginning of the episode, I open by discussing the elements of the Yin Wood Snake year through a grounded energetic lens, offering tips and reflective prompts on how to embody these qualities in daily life 🪵 🐍

In my conversation with Jes, we go deep into:

~ The obligatory self-sacrificial nature of our Chinese heritage and how it shapes burnout, proving, and validation cycles

~ The deep-seated equation of sacrifice = love

~ Creating personal tools and resources to check in with ourselves rather than relying on over-complicated, mind-focused external strategies

~ Repairing our relationship with our upbringing, families, and past selves

~ The illusion of a perfect measure for rest, relaxation, and ease

~ Where to look in our Human Design chart for a tendency toward relentless determination (even against unhelpful odds)

~ Our universal desire to feel seen and recognised, beyond what our charts indicate

~ Unpacking, reframing, and redefining the projection field and not-self anger as a 5/1 Manifestor (from my perspective)

~ The ecological network of transformation—how growth, deconditioning, and healing are never siloed experiences

…and so much more!!

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Listen here my episode on Jes’ podcast Whole and Unleashed 🤍 🤍

ABOUT JES

Jessica Lock is a holistic yoga, mindset and human design guide. She helps overwhelmed go-getters recalibrate and find clarity in their lives through her company Whole & Unleashed. Jes is the creator of the Align & Embody journal, a 90 day prompted journal designed to bring you back to yourself and embody the life you want to create. She is also the host of Whole & Unleashed, a podcast about coming home to ourselves where she features chats on fulfillment, spirituality, wellness and more.

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