Dr. Nicole LePera

Is this coming from that deeper point of inspiration as opposed to just because I struggle to say no or because I won't feel good enough or worthy unless I'm producing something?

So, again, I think a lot of us carry or we all carry adaptation from childhood.

It doesn't mean they're all bad.

What we can begin to do, though, is harness the ability to choose as opposed to just feel driven, because that's the only way that we gain worthiness, connection or whatever it is that that's allowing us to create.

Yeah, and perhaps it

Won't ever.

Right.

But I think that there's something to be said and powerful in flexibility.

Right.

In the moments where for whatever reason, physical, you've run out of energy, you get sick, you can't go to the gym and do what you want for one day for an extended period of time or forever.

Life happens.

Something interferes with our ability to produce.

Those are always, I think, the markers of when we're in a healthy relationship.

So when I'm forced to stop, just to apply to this conversation or shift out of my habit, whatever the habit is, right?

This one is producing, doing.

when I'm forced to stop or when I need to choose to stop because I'm sick physically or emotionally or something else needs my attention in this time or this moment or this season, can I be flexible enough to do that without feeling terrible about myself, without having consequences, right?

Where I'm now so uncomfortable that I'm driving myself into action even when I ought to be not pausing for whatever reason.

And I think when we can become rigid

when it doesn't matter what's happening around us, we just have to do these things because that's the only way we feel good, then I think there's something to be said about the helpfulness of developing flexibility or that ability to choose, to say, okay, contextually speaking now, for whatever reason, because I'm sick, because I'm exhausted, because I'm emotionally overwhelmed, because someone else needs me to do something else in this moment, can I continue with my day or my week or my season and still feel okay without myself?

I think it's important to hold space for both.