EP 387 | Purpose, Pauses, and the World We’re Living In | Andrea Crisp
Release Date: 01/14/2026
The Couragecast
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info_outlineAt the beginning of the year, many of us felt hope, clarity, and momentum. And then life happened. The world intesified politically, socially, emotionally and suddenly that early-year energy felt harder to access.
In this episode of The Couragecast, we explore what it means when purpose driven, intuitive women feel heavy, slowed down, or disoriented by the collective weight of the world. This conversation is for anyone questioning their momentum, alignment, or sense of direction and wondering if slowing down means they've lost their way.
This episode gently reframes heaviness not as failure, but as awareness. It offers grounded, nervous-system-informed perspective on momentum, rest, and sustainable leadership—espectially for sensitve, heart-led women navigating work, business, and life during uncertain times.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why collective events don't just happen "out there" but are felt deeply in the body.
- Why intuitive, empathic, purpose-driven women are especially impacted right now.
- How the belief that momentum requires contant output and how that creates burnout.
- The difference between slowing down and shutting down.
- Why alignment often requires recalibration rather than acceleration.
- How tending to your nervous system now protects long-term momentum.
- What it means to stay connected to yourself without forcing progress.
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