Hey Reader! 👋

Yesterday's live podcast interview with Monique Helstrom was fire 🔥.

She laid out a master roadmap for recognizing, owning, and transforming the choices you make that create and maintain the unwellness that will eventually lead to burnout or breakdown.

Monique's best advice: Stop performing and start being.

Most of us are carrying a "shame backpack" filled with the stones of every minor mistake we’ve ever hidden. We’ve been conditioned to believe our worth is tied strictly to our productivity—essentially living as "human doings" rather than "human beings."

After listening to this powerful episode, you'll learn:

• How to identify your "unreliable narrator"—the voice that tells you mistakes are fatal.
• The roadmap to transition from a productivity addiction to radical self-accountability.
• Why "Aversion Therapy" is the secret to killing shame by owning your mistakes out loud.
• How to turn "invisible expectations" into clear boundaries that leadership actually respects.

Here is one immediate action to Interrupt Your Architecture of Unwellness: Identify one small, lingering mistake you’ve been hiding or "puffing up your shoulders" to cover—an extra space in a report, a missed email, or a minor deadline slip. Own it out loud. Tell a colleague or your partner, "I made this mistake, and I'm fixing it." By exposing the error, you prove to your "monkey brain" that you aren't going to die and that you are worthy of love even when you aren't perfect.

​You can catch the whole conversation here​

Based on your feedback last week, I've tightened the format and would love to hear what you think about this NEW version.

​​​TSITM ep 63 journal.pdf​

Here's to your health!

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