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Episode 45: What Happens When You Can’t Feel Your Own Energy?
Finding Your Way Back to the Place Where Life Flows Again

Have you ever felt like you’ve lost access to yourself?

Not because you’ve stopped caring. Not because you’ve lost your dreams. But because somewhere between trauma, grief, ADHD, caregiving, chronic stress, and simply being human, your energy became scattered.

In this deeply personal episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie shares the honest reality of what it feels like when life becomes an “anxiety salad”—when every responsibility, fear, hope, and decision lands at once, leaving you frozen, overwhelmed, and wondering, “Where did I go?”

Together, we’ll explore the difference between survival energy and life-giving energy, how our nervous system can temporarily disconnect us from our creativity and intuition, and why healing may not be about becoming someone new—but about returning to the most connected version of ourselves.

Along the way, Julie shares a deeply personal poem, reflections on grief, the wisdom of the body, and a simple practice she calls finding your breadcrumbs—small, gentle moments that help us reconnect with who we truly are.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from your own spark, this episode is a compassionate reminder that you haven’t lost yourself.

You may have simply lost access.

And perhaps, one quiet breadcrumb at a time, you’ll find your way home again.

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Episode 44: Trusting Your Energy

Learning to Listen to Your Inner Knowing

Episode Description

Have you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Or

sensed that a new direction was calling you—but doubted yourself because you couldn't explain

why? In this episode, we're exploring what it means to trust your energy. Not blindly. Not perfectly.

But with curiosity, discernment, and compassion. Our energy is constantly communicating with us.

It shows up in what energizes us, what drains us, what expands us, what contracts us, and what

repeatedly asks for our attention. Perhaps trusting your energy isn't about becoming more certain.

Perhaps it's about becoming more willing to listen.

Reflective questions for thought or journal prompts:

1. What consistently gives me energy?

2. What consistently drains me?

3. Where do I feel most like myself?

4. Have there been times when my energy knew before I did?

5. What am I trying to talk myself out of?

6. If I truly loved myself, what would I stop arguing with myself about?

7. What is my energy trying to tell me right now?

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Season 5 • Episode 43

Protecting Your Energy

The Adapted Life: Finding Next

In this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie

explores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting

your energy — especially after loss, caregiving, burnout,

betrayal, trauma, or seasons of deep emotional

exhaustion.

As part of the Season 5 theme, Tending to the Energy, this

conversation reflects on what happens when we become

more aware of where our energy is going… and realize

that not everything deserves full access to us.

Julie shares gentle reflections about emotional labor,

boundaries, overstimulation, compassion fatigue, and the

pressure many sensitive people feel to constantly give,

explain, fix, or carry. This episode offers permission to

step back without guilt, to honor your nervous system,

and to recognize that boundaries are not punishment —

they are stewardship.

Through calming encouragement and thoughtful insight,

listeners are invited to consider:

• What restores versus drains them

• The hidden cost of constant giving

• Why protecting your peace is an act of healing

• How grief and trauma can change our capacity• The importance of creating space for recovery,

creativity, and presence

This episode is a reminder that protecting your energy is not selfish — it is part of tending the light within you. You, are not the weather, you dear friends, are the lighthouse.

Take a breath, settle in, and join Julie for a gentle

conversation about honoring your limits, reclaiming your

peace, and learning that you are allowed to protect what is

sacred in you.

Music by Epidemic Sound

written, recorded, and created by Julie Hasselberger

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