December 14, 2024 • 15 mins
What if overwhelm wasn’t a sign of failure, but a trickster blocking the easier way to live your life?
In this episode, I share my personal journey from burnout to creating The Gentle Rebellion Against Overwhelm. We’ll explore how to gently—but firmly—say no to the pressure and yes to the clarity, energy, and joy that come from listening to yourself.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why there’s nothing wrong with you—it’s overwhelm.
- How overwhelm blocks the easier, more joyful ways forward.
- The simple yet powerful shift that changes everything: letting your body and heart support your mind.
- Why the rebellion needs to be gentle—and how that makes all the difference.
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- Sign up for the free live workshop on January 5th. Let’s start 2025 with clarity and ease.
- Find more tools and resources here.
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Heidi Marke (00:00):
Welcome to the Gentle Rebellion where overwhelm
is optional.
Hello, hello, hello.
Welcome to this week's episodeof the Overwhelm is Optional
podcast, where I'm attempting tovideo it, which feels weird
(00:22):
because I love my process ofdoing it.
Just audio, it works for me andthe mind doesn't like change
right, and even if it's goodchange, because then it means I
don't have to then do an audiopodcast and then record videos
for you if you're watching onYouTube.
It's all sensible, but mymind's being resisted, resisting
it by going no, no, no, it'llbe too hard, it'll be rubbish,
(00:43):
you won't be able to edit it.
So here I am anyway, saying nomind, thank you for warning me,
but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Here goes, welcome, welcome.
Welcome to this week's episodeof the overwhelmers optional
podcast.
If you haven't listened to theover 200 episodes that are
available in all the places thatpodcasts like to hang out,
(01:06):
including mine, are now onYouTube without the video.
You know what I mean.
An audio version seems to bewhat YouTube does.
Then you've got a delight instore if what I'm saying
resonates with you, because youcan just go and binge listen to
them all.
Lucky you, anyway.
So this podcast is forbig-hearted, overwhelmed, highly
(01:28):
driven, highly conscientiousprofessionals, my favourite
people, the loveliest people inthe whole world.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
There's nothing wrong with you,it's just overwhelm.
And when I say just overwhelm,overwhelm is the gateway drug to
exhaustion, burnout, misery,misery, heaviness, thinking
there's something wrong with you.
There's nothing wrong with you,it's overwhelm.
(01:51):
And each week we find ways tolook at it differently, to free
you to be more and more yourself.
This process has become knownas the gentle rebellion.
I'm going to tell you all aboutthe Gentle Rebellion today.
So the Gentle Rebellion cameabout because, excuse me, I had
to find a way to rebuild my lifeafter unexpectedly burning out.
(02:14):
I did not see that coming, oh,my goodness.
I look back and think well, itwas pretty obvious.
In fact, I saw a friend a fewmonths ago and she said are you
still teaching Heidi?
I said, god, no, I burnt out,left years ago.
And she said well, we all sawthat coming.
And then in that moment I waslike so I could have just cut
that episode of my life out.
I could have cut the eight anda half years of struggling to
(02:34):
make a life that just didn'tsuit me work for me.
I could have cut out all of thehugely, hugely pressurised but
invisible get better at list.
I could have cut all thatmisery out, but I'm glad I
didn't.
I'm not completely glad, I don't.
I'm not like oh yes, I'm soglad that I pushed myself to the
(02:56):
limit and treated myself as ifthere was something majorly
wrong with me and if my body, asif my body, was an inconvenient
way to transport my mind around.
I'm not completely happy withthat.
I'm not happy with it as in ohyes, it's all part of my journey
.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I learnt loads from it,but it wasn't the most fun way
to travel.
So I'm grateful for the lessons, but I'm never going to treat
(03:18):
myself like that again.
I am done with overwhelm.
I am done with pressure.
I'm done with treating myselfas if there's something
fundamentally wrong with me.
There isn't.
I know this.
I know this primarily fromgoing on Zen retreats with the
incredible Zen ways.
Check them out if you'reinterested.
There's nothing wrong.
(03:40):
There's nothing wrong with us.
There's nothing wrong with thesituation.
It's all just usefulinformation, and when we can
view it in that way, we start toget the clarity we need to live
more skillfully.
So instead of there beingsomething wrong, it's just, oh,
I want to up level.
I'm going to live moreskillfully, but instead of live
trying to live more skillfullyby deciding, there's something
(04:03):
fundamentally wrong with us.
So we need to be better, moreproductive, better at sleeping,
better at managing our emotionsum, fitter, better, eating
better, better, better, better,better, a better friend, a
better mom, a better daughter, abetter sister, a better dog
owner, a better homeowner, abetter partner, a better driver.
Oh, why no, there's nothingwrong.
(04:27):
There's nothing wrong.
It's all just usefulinformation to notice and use to
find a way to adventure thatworks for us.
That's the gentle rebellion.
There's nothing wrong withanything.
It's all just usefulinformation, and we are gently
but firmly rebelling against theidea that, to have the full
(04:50):
life, we want well-paid,meaningful, satisfying work,
great relationships, health,energy, space for us, capacity
for joy, all the good stuff, thereal stuff.
The reason why we worked so hardin the first place was to have
more freedom to be ourselves,more freedom about, and choice
about, how we spent our time.
What happens instead, though,is we become overloaded by
(05:11):
pressure and we can't thinkstraight, and then we can't
prioritize and we can force ourbrilliant minds to think through
that and focus, because we'reprofessionals and we don't want
to let anyone down and we'vetrained ourselves to do that.
We've trained ourselves really,really well to ignore the needs
of the body and the heart inorder to push the mind to focus
and get stuff done.
And we are good at it and wedon't let people down because we
(05:33):
are big hearted and highlyconscientious.
But then it starts to cost us.
So you can do that for a whilebecause it works.
That's how you get a successfullife.
It works until it doesn't, andthen the heart starts popping up
with something's off here.
It's not what I want.
This is not the life I intendedto create.
This is not what I worked sohard for, but I don't want to
(05:57):
chuck it all away, because Ihave this big mortgage and this
dream home and relationships andpeople depending on me, and I
love my team and I actually lovemy job, but it's killing me.
Are you with me?
Well, that's where I got to andI spent eight and a half years
trying to solve the problem of Ilove my job, but it's killing
me, and I never solved it and Idid everything, which means you
(06:19):
don't have to.
So I hacked my sleep, diet,exercise, I use mindfulness,
meditation, yoga, all the things.
My degree is psychology.
I'm a trained yoga teacher.
So embarrassing.
I knew what I needed to do.
I did all the things.
I had this secret impossibleget better at list and I
(06:40):
imploded my life through burnoutbecause the inconvenient tear
leakage which would starthappening on my commute home,
because the inconvenient tearleakage which would start
happening on my commute homestarted to come out.
Oh my God, how embarrassing, inpublic, in professional
settings.
I broke so much shame, so muchembarrassment, lost my health,
(07:02):
my confidence, my financialsecurity, my hard-won
professional respect, my careergone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
gone.
Because I reached a stage whereI was no longer prepared to
(07:22):
sacrifice my very self in orderto get through my day Done.
And on my road to recovery Ilearned that there was nothing
wrong with me or the situation.
We were just mismatched.
All the way I was movingthrough my day was mismatched.
And I learned that my mind isnot created to run the show
because it's very linked to mynervous system and my nervous
system is designed to shut mymind down whenever it's in high
(07:46):
alert, which it's in high alertvery easily, because the nervous
system's designed to be set offto keep us safe, safe, alive.
Safe from bears and majordisasters, but not necessarily
happy.
But not necessarily happy.
(08:10):
And once I started to learn this, I started to realise that we
really need to let the body andthe heart weigh in on the
conversation about how tonavigate through our lives.
When we do this, we can supportthe mind.
Then we get the focus, clarity,energy.
Focus, clarity, energy, ease,states of flow, more laughter,
all the good stuff, all thethings we were working so damn
(08:33):
hard for in the first place.
Right, because why did you workso hard to have this full life?
Because you wanted more choiceabout how you spent your time.
Why?
Because you wanted to feel morejoy Deep down.
That's it.
Everything we do is to changehow we feel.
Everything.
We want the satisfaction of acompleted project.
(08:54):
We want to make other peoplehappy, because that feels good,
because satisfaction brings joy,because connecting with others
and knowing that they're happybrings joy.
Everything we do is to changethe way we feel.
Everything.
But overwhelm blocks the easierways to that joy.
(09:23):
Overwhelm is a trickster.
It convinces us that we have tofinish everything on our own,
that we have to take all thepressures of the world on our
shoulders that we have to pushon through if we want ease, if
we want joy.
But it's not true.
(09:45):
Think about it.
Is there a pot of ease at theend of your to-do list?
Have you ever reached the endof your to-do list?
Have you ever reached that potof ease when you just go, yeah,
I've made it, I've done it,woohoo, that was worth it.
No, you get temporary bits,temporary reprieves, but your
to-do list doesn't end, andthat's a really good thing,
(10:05):
because if your to-do list ended, well, that would be the end of
your life, because therewouldn't be anything else Like
you're always going to want more.
You're always going to want todo more, have more, be more,
because you're constantlyexpanding and you're highly
driven.
You're always going to wantmore and that's okay.
It's just who you are.
(10:25):
Overwhelm is the problem, notyou, not the situation.
When we deal with the overwhelmfirst, an easier way, a more you
way, starts to appear.
So welcome to the gentlerebellion where we gently but
firmly rebel against the ideathat to have the life you want,
(10:48):
you have to push throughoverwhelm into exhaustion,
through pressure to focus.
You don't.
Overwhelm is optional andthat's a a jokey way of saying
you need to deal with theoverwhelm.
First, make it optional.
Look at the overwhelm, stare inface, say I'm done with you.
Overwhelm, you don't work forme.
I've got this far by pushingthrough you, but I'm done.
(11:11):
I want clarity.
I want freedom from thisnonsense, from this constant
pressure, from this going aroundin circles.
I'm done.
That's the gentle rebellion.
But the reason it's gentle isbecause rebellion's not gentle,
but it needs to be.
This rebellion needs to bebecause otherwise you're going
(11:32):
to have to take a big stand,like I did, and say no and
implode your life, and thatdoesn't solve the problem.
Imploding your life, quittingyour job, does not solve the
problem.
It just leads to more overwhelm, more stuff to deal with, more
problems to solve.
That doesn't mean you shouldn'tquit your job.
(11:55):
I'm not telling you what to do.
That's the whole point of thegender rebellion.
Only you know what works foryou, what's right for you.
Only you know.
But you're blocked from thatdeep knowing by overwhelm.
Deal with the overwhelm.
Let your body and heart weighin on the conversation.
Everything changes.
(12:15):
It's magical, it's not easy,but it feels good, it feels
right or not, and this is thepoint.
Either this calls to you or itdoesn't, in which case, don't
listen to this podcast, don'twatch this video.
Find something else, becausewe're all different.
(12:39):
But what I love about the genderrebellion which is what my
saying no to overwhelm andexhaustion and pushing myself on
through to damaging my healthand sanity what that process
became as I rebuilt my life andstarted working with clients and
(13:00):
having huge, wonderfulsuccesses through courses and
all sorts of things that processbecame the Gentle Rebellion,
because I realised that if Itook a really strong stand, a
shouty stand, I'm done withoverwhelm.
I'm not doing this anymore, Irefuse.
And then like proclaiming tothe world that I was going to do
(13:21):
things differently.
The pressure was so intense andit created problems to solve.
It created more pressure, moreoverwhelm, more exhaustion.
If I did it secretly andquietly and gently and just said
to myself I promise I'm notgoing to keep pushing you
through overwhelm, I'm going tofind another way.
I'm listening, I'm listening,I've got you.
(13:43):
You can trust me.
I'm going to look after myselfproperly now, gently, it's only
about you.
Nobody else needs to know.
You can sort yourself outsecretly without anyone ever
realizing.
And then one day they'll say oh, you've changed.
Have you had your hair done?
Because you just look more atease with yourself.
(14:05):
So that's the Gentle Rebellion.
If that calls to you, pleasesubscribe to this channel.
There's lots more coming.
I'm getting really excited aboutthe idea of sharing this on
YouTube, not just on my podcast.
What else?
Oh, before I forget, don't go.
I'm going to be hosting a freelive workshop on the 5th of
(14:26):
January to help us start theyear together.
There's a wonderful, wonderfulgroup of people gathering.
If you'd like to be there withme, please do check the link.
I'm having trouble.
I haven't worked out how to putlinks in YouTube show note
things.
Sorry, show notes is podcast.
See, I'm not used to this.
In the description I can't getthe hyperlinks to work.
Work, but if you go to theprofile bit and click on the
(14:48):
links there, it comes up theregistration, or just pop over
to my website.
Or, if you are listening tothis via audio, it is in the
show notes for you.
So thank you for being here,welcome, welcome, welcome if
you're new and if you're one ofmy long-standing podcast
listeners.
Thank you for being here alwayswith much love, wishing you a
(15:09):
week of gender rebellion, ofcommitting to yourself first and
with a whole lot lessoverwhelming pressure.
See you next time For moreresources to help you gently
(15:40):
rebel.
Welcome to the Gentle Rebellion where overwhelm
is optional.
Hello, hello, hello.
Welcome to this week's episodeof the Overwhelm is Optional
podcast, where I'm attempting tovideo it, which feels weird
(00:22):
because I love my process ofdoing it.
Just audio, it works for me andthe mind doesn't like change
right, and even if it's goodchange, because then it means I
don't have to then do an audiopodcast and then record videos
for you if you're watching onYouTube.
It's all sensible, but mymind's being resisted, resisting
it by going no, no, no, it'llbe too hard, it'll be rubbish,
(00:43):
you won't be able to edit it.
So here I am anyway, saying nomind, thank you for warning me,
but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Here goes, welcome, welcome.
Welcome to this week's episodeof the overwhelmers optional
podcast.
If you haven't listened to theover 200 episodes that are
available in all the places thatpodcasts like to hang out,
(01:06):
including mine, are now onYouTube without the video.
You know what I mean.
An audio version seems to bewhat YouTube does.
Then you've got a delight instore if what I'm saying
resonates with you, because youcan just go and binge listen to
them all.
Lucky you, anyway.
So this podcast is forbig-hearted, overwhelmed, highly
(01:28):
driven, highly conscientiousprofessionals, my favourite
people, the loveliest people inthe whole world.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
There's nothing wrong with you,it's just overwhelm.
And when I say just overwhelm,overwhelm is the gateway drug to
exhaustion, burnout, misery,misery, heaviness, thinking
there's something wrong with you.
There's nothing wrong with you,it's overwhelm.
(01:51):
And each week we find ways tolook at it differently, to free
you to be more and more yourself.
This process has become knownas the gentle rebellion.
I'm going to tell you all aboutthe Gentle Rebellion today.
So the Gentle Rebellion cameabout because, excuse me, I had
to find a way to rebuild my lifeafter unexpectedly burning out.
(02:14):
I did not see that coming, oh,my goodness.
I look back and think well, itwas pretty obvious.
In fact, I saw a friend a fewmonths ago and she said are you
still teaching Heidi?
I said, god, no, I burnt out,left years ago.
And she said well, we all sawthat coming.
And then in that moment I waslike so I could have just cut
that episode of my life out.
I could have cut the eight anda half years of struggling to
(02:34):
make a life that just didn'tsuit me work for me.
I could have cut out all of thehugely, hugely pressurised but
invisible get better at list.
I could have cut all thatmisery out, but I'm glad I
didn't.
I'm not completely glad, I don't.
I'm not like oh yes, I'm soglad that I pushed myself to the
(02:56):
limit and treated myself as ifthere was something majorly
wrong with me and if my body, asif my body, was an inconvenient
way to transport my mind around.
I'm not completely happy withthat.
I'm not happy with it as in ohyes, it's all part of my journey
.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I learnt loads from it,but it wasn't the most fun way
to travel.
So I'm grateful for the lessons, but I'm never going to treat
(03:18):
myself like that again.
I am done with overwhelm.
I am done with pressure.
I'm done with treating myselfas if there's something
fundamentally wrong with me.
There isn't.
I know this.
I know this primarily fromgoing on Zen retreats with the
incredible Zen ways.
Check them out if you'reinterested.
There's nothing wrong.
(03:40):
There's nothing wrong with us.
There's nothing wrong with thesituation.
It's all just usefulinformation, and when we can
view it in that way, we start toget the clarity we need to live
more skillfully.
So instead of there beingsomething wrong, it's just, oh,
I want to up level.
I'm going to live moreskillfully, but instead of live
trying to live more skillfullyby deciding, there's something
(04:03):
fundamentally wrong with us.
So we need to be better, moreproductive, better at sleeping,
better at managing our emotionsum, fitter, better, eating
better, better, better, better,better, a better friend, a
better mom, a better daughter, abetter sister, a better dog
owner, a better homeowner, abetter partner, a better driver.
Oh, why no, there's nothingwrong.
(04:27):
There's nothing wrong.
It's all just usefulinformation to notice and use to
find a way to adventure thatworks for us.
That's the gentle rebellion.
There's nothing wrong withanything.
It's all just usefulinformation, and we are gently
but firmly rebelling against theidea that, to have the full
(04:50):
life, we want well-paid,meaningful, satisfying work,
great relationships, health,energy, space for us, capacity
for joy, all the good stuff, thereal stuff.
The reason why we worked so hardin the first place was to have
more freedom to be ourselves,more freedom about, and choice
about, how we spent our time.
What happens instead, though,is we become overloaded by
(05:11):
pressure and we can't thinkstraight, and then we can't
prioritize and we can force ourbrilliant minds to think through
that and focus, because we'reprofessionals and we don't want
to let anyone down and we'vetrained ourselves to do that.
We've trained ourselves really,really well to ignore the needs
of the body and the heart inorder to push the mind to focus
and get stuff done.
And we are good at it and wedon't let people down because we
(05:33):
are big hearted and highlyconscientious.
But then it starts to cost us.
So you can do that for a whilebecause it works.
That's how you get a successfullife.
It works until it doesn't, andthen the heart starts popping up
with something's off here.
It's not what I want.
This is not the life I intendedto create.
This is not what I worked sohard for, but I don't want to
(05:57):
chuck it all away, because Ihave this big mortgage and this
dream home and relationships andpeople depending on me, and I
love my team and I actually lovemy job, but it's killing me.
Are you with me?
Well, that's where I got to andI spent eight and a half years
trying to solve the problem of Ilove my job, but it's killing
me, and I never solved it and Idid everything, which means you
(06:19):
don't have to.
So I hacked my sleep, diet,exercise, I use mindfulness,
meditation, yoga, all the things.
My degree is psychology.
I'm a trained yoga teacher.
So embarrassing.
I knew what I needed to do.
I did all the things.
I had this secret impossibleget better at list and I
(06:40):
imploded my life through burnoutbecause the inconvenient tear
leakage which would starthappening on my commute home,
because the inconvenient tearleakage which would start
happening on my commute homestarted to come out.
Oh my God, how embarrassing, inpublic, in professional
settings.
I broke so much shame, so muchembarrassment, lost my health,
(07:02):
my confidence, my financialsecurity, my hard-won
professional respect, my careergone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
gone.
Because I reached a stage whereI was no longer prepared to
(07:22):
sacrifice my very self in orderto get through my day Done.
And on my road to recovery Ilearned that there was nothing
wrong with me or the situation.
We were just mismatched.
All the way I was movingthrough my day was mismatched.
And I learned that my mind isnot created to run the show
because it's very linked to mynervous system and my nervous
system is designed to shut mymind down whenever it's in high
(07:46):
alert, which it's in high alertvery easily, because the nervous
system's designed to be set offto keep us safe, safe, alive.
Safe from bears and majordisasters, but not necessarily
happy.
But not necessarily happy.
(08:10):
And once I started to learn this, I started to realise that we
really need to let the body andthe heart weigh in on the
conversation about how tonavigate through our lives.
When we do this, we can supportthe mind.
Then we get the focus, clarity,energy.
Focus, clarity, energy, ease,states of flow, more laughter,
all the good stuff, all thethings we were working so damn
(08:33):
hard for in the first place.
Right, because why did you workso hard to have this full life?
Because you wanted more choiceabout how you spent your time.
Why?
Because you wanted to feel morejoy Deep down.
That's it.
Everything we do is to changehow we feel.
Everything.
We want the satisfaction of acompleted project.
(08:54):
We want to make other peoplehappy, because that feels good,
because satisfaction brings joy,because connecting with others
and knowing that they're happybrings joy.
Everything we do is to changethe way we feel.
Everything.
But overwhelm blocks the easierways to that joy.
(09:23):
Overwhelm is a trickster.
It convinces us that we have tofinish everything on our own,
that we have to take all thepressures of the world on our
shoulders that we have to pushon through if we want ease, if
we want joy.
But it's not true.
(09:45):
Think about it.
Is there a pot of ease at theend of your to-do list?
Have you ever reached the endof your to-do list?
Have you ever reached that potof ease when you just go, yeah,
I've made it, I've done it,woohoo, that was worth it.
No, you get temporary bits,temporary reprieves, but your
to-do list doesn't end, andthat's a really good thing,
(10:05):
because if your to-do list ended, well, that would be the end of
your life, because therewouldn't be anything else Like
you're always going to want more.
You're always going to want todo more, have more, be more,
because you're constantlyexpanding and you're highly
driven.
You're always going to wantmore and that's okay.
It's just who you are.
(10:25):
Overwhelm is the problem, notyou, not the situation.
When we deal with the overwhelmfirst, an easier way, a more you
way, starts to appear.
So welcome to the gentlerebellion where we gently but
firmly rebel against the ideathat to have the life you want,
(10:48):
you have to push throughoverwhelm into exhaustion,
through pressure to focus.
You don't.
Overwhelm is optional andthat's a a jokey way of saying
you need to deal with theoverwhelm.
First, make it optional.
Look at the overwhelm, stare inface, say I'm done with you.
Overwhelm, you don't work forme.
I've got this far by pushingthrough you, but I'm done.
(11:11):
I want clarity.
I want freedom from thisnonsense, from this constant
pressure, from this going aroundin circles.
I'm done.
That's the gentle rebellion.
But the reason it's gentle isbecause rebellion's not gentle,
but it needs to be.
This rebellion needs to bebecause otherwise you're going
(11:32):
to have to take a big stand,like I did, and say no and
implode your life, and thatdoesn't solve the problem.
Imploding your life, quittingyour job, does not solve the
problem.
It just leads to more overwhelm, more stuff to deal with, more
problems to solve.
That doesn't mean you shouldn'tquit your job.
(11:55):
I'm not telling you what to do.
That's the whole point of thegender rebellion.
Only you know what works foryou, what's right for you.
Only you know.
But you're blocked from thatdeep knowing by overwhelm.
Deal with the overwhelm.
Let your body and heart weighin on the conversation.
Everything changes.
(12:15):
It's magical, it's not easy,but it feels good, it feels
right or not, and this is thepoint.
Either this calls to you or itdoesn't, in which case, don't
listen to this podcast, don'twatch this video.
Find something else, becausewe're all different.
(12:39):
But what I love about the genderrebellion which is what my
saying no to overwhelm andexhaustion and pushing myself on
through to damaging my healthand sanity what that process
became as I rebuilt my life andstarted working with clients and
(13:00):
having huge, wonderfulsuccesses through courses and
all sorts of things that processbecame the Gentle Rebellion,
because I realised that if Itook a really strong stand, a
shouty stand, I'm done withoverwhelm.
I'm not doing this anymore, Irefuse.
And then like proclaiming tothe world that I was going to do
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things differently.
The pressure was so intense andit created problems to solve.
It created more pressure, moreoverwhelm, more exhaustion.
If I did it secretly andquietly and gently and just said
to myself I promise I'm notgoing to keep pushing you
through overwhelm, I'm going tofind another way.
I'm listening, I'm listening,I've got you.
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You can trust me.
I'm going to look after myselfproperly now, gently, it's only
about you.
Nobody else needs to know.
You can sort yourself outsecretly without anyone ever
realizing.
And then one day they'll say oh, you've changed.
Have you had your hair done?
Because you just look more atease with yourself.
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So that's the Gentle Rebellion.
If that calls to you, pleasesubscribe to this channel.
There's lots more coming.
I'm getting really excited aboutthe idea of sharing this on
YouTube, not just on my podcast.
What else?
Oh, before I forget, don't go.
I'm going to be hosting a freelive workshop on the 5th of
(14:26):
January to help us start theyear together.
There's a wonderful, wonderfulgroup of people gathering.
If you'd like to be there withme, please do check the link.
I'm having trouble.
I haven't worked out how to putlinks in YouTube show note
things.
Sorry, show notes is podcast.
See, I'm not used to this.
In the description I can't getthe hyperlinks to work.
Work, but if you go to theprofile bit and click on the
(14:48):
links there, it comes up theregistration, or just pop over
to my website.
Or, if you are listening tothis via audio, it is in the
show notes for you.
So thank you for being here,welcome, welcome, welcome if
you're new and if you're one ofmy long-standing podcast
listeners.
Thank you for being here alwayswith much love, wishing you a
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week of gender rebellion, ofcommitting to yourself first and
with a whole lot lessoverwhelming pressure.
See you next time For moreresources to help you gently
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rebel.
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