Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point

December 15, 2021 00:31:41
Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point
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Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point

Dec 15 2021 | 00:31:41

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Show Notes

We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they’ve reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate that it’s showing you, you DO have a limit. Sit with that. What’s it mean to hit your limit and really admit it? That is, rather than judging yourself, or scrambling to get past it. Instead, embrace the breaking point. And use it as, conversely, a strength. That is, the place where you say no. No to more expectations, more to more demands, no to more work. And yes to stepping away, taking a break, seeing a […]

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