Most of us got two options for a hard feeling: swallow it or drown in it. In this episode I hand you the third — a two-minute practice you can do in a parked car: name it, locate it, move it. We cover the UCLA research on why naming an emotion literally calms the brain's alarm center ("name it to tame it"), why swallowed feelings wait for 2 a.m., and a gentle guided tapping round to move the feeling through instead of carrying it. Waves, not floods.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

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Feeling behind this week? Check whose ruler you’re holding. In this minisode I share the appointment where a doctor I’ve known for years responded to my new chapter with “we’ll see how long this lasts” — and how the old me would have carried that sentence home. Plus the mayflies that covered my car one night and what they taught me about underwater seasons: growing unseen isn’t behind, it’s before. Hand back the ruler.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam

You handle everything — and feel almost none of it. In this episode we name the strange grief of competence: being at the game but on the phone, on the vacation but running it, everywhere and nowhere at once. I share the rink moment that caught me, why your nervous system won’t let you be present in a moment it believes needs managing, and the reframe that changes everything: presence isn’t a skill to master, it’s what’s left when you put the scanning down. One five-minute practice to start this week, and one question to carry.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam