The Storm Before the Calm: Why Chaos Means We're Close to Breakthrough

TW: brief reference to emotional abuse and end-of-relationship dynamics.

In this week’s episode, Elissa pulls back the curtain on a pattern most of us feel long before we can name it: the moment right before a system collapses — when it spikes, panics, and lashes out in a final attempt to survive.

Drawing from her own deeply personal transformation, Elissa traces the pattern through her marriage, her career, and now the collective stage. She reveals how, in every era of her life, the same energy showed up: when she stepped into her power or started to leave a dysfunctional dynamic, the system intensified - right before it broke.

This episode weaves together:  • The psychology of extinction bursts  • Why things feel more chaotic right before they clear  • The nervous system’s thaw → shake → release cycle  • How toxic power structures (personal or political) behave when they sense their time is up  • Historical examples of authoritarian regimes collapsing almost overnight  • What this means for you, for us, and for what’s coming next

This isn’t an episode about fear. It’s an episode about pattern recognition, self-trust, and relief.

If you’ve been seeing chaos, conflict, or intensity rise around you - personally or globally - this conversation reframes it through a higher lens:

This is not the beginning of the end. It’s the end of the end. The storm before the calm.

Elissa also shares how dissolving a lifelong pattern around visibility opened the floodgates - for her intuition and the work that is now pouring through her.

You’ll leave with a clearer sense of:  • why big shifts often come with one final “flare” of the old energy  • how to read the signs when something is truly ending  • how to stay grounded when the field around you is shaking  • and why this moment, for all of us, might be more hopeful than it looks

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