What if slowing down isn’t something you do after you fix your life — but the very thing that allows you to live it?

In this episode, Kate Garland explores why so many women feel stuck in constant urgency, overdrive, and emotional exhaustion — and why slowing down isn’t about doing less, opting out, or “calming down,” but about reclaiming presence, capacity, and aliveness in a world that no longer offers a clear map.

Blending lived experience, nervous system wisdom, midlife insight, and a few very human stories (including grief, sourdough, and rage-vacuuming), this episode reframes slowing down as the work — not a reward for getting everything right.

If you’re navigating midlife, burnout, anxiety, or the sense that the old ways of pushing through just don’t work anymore, this conversation will meet you where you are.

• Why women speed up — emotional labor, overfunctioning, hypervigilance, and the pressure to be everything to everyone
• How the nervous system calibrates to constant urgency — and why it becomes your “normal”
• The difference between pausing and truly slowing down
• Why midlife forces a reckoning with speed, burnout, and capacity
• How slowing down builds nervous system capacity instead of shrinking your life
• Slowing down as quiet resistance and embodied leadership
• Why presence — not productivity — is what helps us navigate uncertainty and no-map land
• Simple, tangible ways to slow down without overhauling your life

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)

A conversation about nervous system safety, self-responsibility, and energetic sovereignty

When the world feels unpredictable, overwhelming, or strangely unmoored, the problem isn’t that you’re doing something wrong — it’s that we’re living in what I call no-map land.

Old systems no longer hold.

New ones aren’t fully formed.

And many sensitive, capable women are quietly carrying far more than they should.

In this episode, I explore the concept of energetic sovereignty — not as a buzzword or spiritual bypass, but as a lived, embodied capacity to stay centered, grounded, and intact even when life feels chaotic.

We talk about:

• Why self-responsibility can quietly turn into self-sacrifice
• The difference between being capable and being centered
• How nervous system regulation, emotional literacy, and boundaries only work when they’re integrated
• What it really means to stay with yourself — without fixing, bracing, or over-functioning
• Why midlife is often the initiation point into true sovereignty

This is not about opting out of the world.

It’s about staying in it — without abandoning yourself.

If you’ve been doing “the work” but still feel tired, leaky, or subtly braced…

If you’re highly sensitive, deeply capable, and secretly exhausted…

If you sense that something deeper is being asked of you now…

This conversation is for you.

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

Kate

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)

How do you stay sane when the world feels like it’s falling apart?

Between ongoing violence, political unrest, climate extremes, and a constant stream of alarming news, many women are feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, angry—or quietly numb. If you’ve been asking yourself “How much more can my nervous system take?” or “Why does it feel like nothing I do actually helps?”—this episode is for you.

In this tender, grounded conversation, Kate Garland introduces the concept of sacred witnessing—a powerful alternative to burnout, fixing, and emotional collapse. This episode isn’t about bypassing reality or offering false comfort. It’s about learning how to stay present, regulated, and human when nothing can be solved quickly—and when forcing solutions only makes things worse.

Drawing from personal experience, somatic wisdom, and nervous system insight, Kate explores why presence itself is a form of service, and how being a regulated witness may be one of the most courageous acts available to us right now.

• Why “fixing” isn’t always the medicine—and how competence can become a coping strategy
• What sacred witnessing really means (and what it doesn’t)
• How nervous system regulation supports resilience during collective crisis
• A powerful reframe for staying human when the world feels unfixable

Kate also shares a deeply personal reflection on learning sacred witnessing through her mother’s Alzheimer’s journey—revealing how presence, rather than action, became the true offering.

If you’re a capable, sensitive woman who is tired of panic, doom-scrolling, and emotional over-functioning—this episode offers a steadier path forward.

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

Kate

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)