Do you feel guilty every time you rest? Like rest has to be earned, and you have not earned it yet and you definitely don't deserve it? I know that voice well. It showed up this summer, big time, when I took my first break in 88 episodes.

Welcome to Season Two, Beauties. I am opening this season with the truth about that break. For weeks before it, a voice in my head listed all the reasons I hadn't earned the right to rest. I didn't fight that voice. I didn't obey it either. I sat down with it.

In a workshop with Elizabeth Gilbert, I heard her describe fear as a passenger that rides sidecar. I loved it, and I do not drive. So I did it my way. I invited fear in for a coffee, let it say everything it had to say, and then asked it one question.

This episode names what Season Two is really about: the gap between knowing this work and living it, and what it takes to truly embody the work. We have never consumed more of this content, and so many of us are still stuck. Closing that gap is uncomfortable, sometimes painful and often awkward. That is exactly where we are going together.

And some news that means the world to me: The Lulu Essey Podcast is now part of the ALIVE Podcast Network, founded by the incredible Angel Livas.

In This Episode You Will Learn

• Where the belief that rest has to be earned comes from, and why it gets louder the harder you work
• What happened when I stopped arguing with fear and let it speak instead
• The Coffee Invitation, a practice for hosting a feeling without letting it decide
• The one question that reveals what a feeling is really trying to do for you
• Why knowing this work is not the same as living it, and why that gap is the heart of Season Two
• What joining the ALIVE Podcast Network means for this community

Next week on Season Two: trust. I tell you plainly who I am, who I am not, and what you can count on from me in this space.

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