The Zone of Productive Discomfort: How to Regulate Your Nervous System and Lead with Calm

• Improve your mental health as an entrepreneur without needing a total business overhaul
• Address emotional stress before it snowballs into burnout
• Use stress management strategies that support real growth—not just survival
• Step out of urgency culture and into leadership rooted in presence and clarity

“Urgency isn’t always about real deadlines—it’s a survival response. We move because we feel like we have to, not because we actually do.”

“If you’re constantly ‘on’ all the time, you’re always coming from a reactive place.”

“Use breathwork and movement as band-aids—but remember, real change comes from building capacity, so you don’t react this way in the first place.”

“The longer you sit with discomfort, the more progress you’ll make and the more your capacity will expand.”

“You don’t need to wait until you’re burnt out to change. The key is learning to notice your nervous system state before you hit your limit.”

INTRO

Do you find yourself always rushing, reacting and wondering why it still feels like you’re falling behind? You might be stuck in urgency mode and this episode is for you. We often think that the problem is time or focus or that we just need to try harder and push through. But what if your productivity struggles aren’t about discipline at all and are actually signals from a dysregulated nervous system.

Today I’m joined by trauma-informed leadership coach Emily Rose Dallare and we are unpacking a powerful truth. Stress, emotional overload and urgency may not be time issues. They are capacity issues.

You will walk away with a clearer understanding of how your body responds to pressure, how to shift from reactive to responsive and why learning to calm your nervous system could be the most productive thing you do this week. 

Let’s dive in. Forget the hustle, ditch the burnout and step into your productivity sweet spot.

This isn’t just another time management podcast. It’s your go-to space for refreshingly real conversations and practical strategies that help you work smarter, not harder. I’m Anne Rajoo, your host and a passionate advocate for peaceful productivity.

Join me as we challenge traditional productivity rules and redefine success on your terms with time, energy and focus that actually fit your life. Whether you are an entrepreneur, creative or just someone who’s done with the grind, you’ll find actionable tips, mindset shifts and powerful discussions to help you get more done without the stress. Let’s find your productivity sweet spot.

ANNE

So in these days, everything feels urgent. There’s always some deadline looming or something needs to be done straight away. And it just seems to be this common thread that I’ve seen with myself, but also my clients. But I think you’re going to share a few things today with us, Emily, why this whole urgency thing and rushing around might not be the most productive thing we could do.

EMILY

Yes. Great intro. I think urgency is, well, even urgency, the word urgency, not as many people really fully identify what it is, right? But it’s this feeling of having to be go, go, go all the time. This feeling that if you don’t go and do the thing now, like you just can’t do it. It’s like, you don’t necessarily think that something bad is going to happen, but you just can’t do it. It’s like looking at the laundry and knowing that it needs doing, and then just sitting on the sofa and not doing it. Like you can’t do it, especially as a woman.

It’s not possible a lot of the time. And that’s what I would describe as urgency is this feeling to go and do something, even though you don’t have to. There’s no real need to do it.

ANNE

It’s not that life or death situation, but it’s just this nagging feeling inside that if it’s not done, it doesn’t feel quite right, isn’t it? And that it’s like the home, work at home or actually work in, as in work and task. And that’s so interesting. 

Like just yesterday I had a call with a potential client and she was like, oh, she does, she works as a contractor and she has her own clients. And like, I always end up prioritizing the contract work, even though there is no need for that. Like there’s, there was this like mental thing that she had told herself that she needed to tackle the contract work before she could tackle the work of her own client. And I’m wondering what your thoughts are about these. Like, I mean, obviously there’s something that we’re telling ourselves why this is now urgent and why this should be done. What are we telling ourselves? Where is this coming from?

EMILY

I had a really similar situation with the client actually yesterday who told me this exact similar thing. Like she was sat at like 5 PM at the end of the work day and she was stressed because she didn’t feel like she’d done enough. That’s again, the same feeling. It’s that why am I doing these things when I don’t actually need to be doing them? Like there’s, there’s no real pressure coming from anywhere. So why do I choose to do them? And it comes from a survival pattern that we’ve got in our nervous system. It happened at some point in our developmental years, most likely are from a trauma of any kind.

And now it’s stuck there and our nervous system is stuck on. And it’s in what I call a yellow state. A yellow state’s a, an activated state. So if you think of green, green’s like when you’re very calm and you’re chilled and la la la life’s good. And then you move into this yellow state, which is activated. We can go more into this. I make it very simple for people when I’m talking about it. I’m going to the science later if you want, but you move into a bit of an activated mode and your activated mode might be a bit of flight. Like I need to go and like move away.

And my moving away is going and doing something else. So you’re actually, so in your client, your potential client’s case there, she’s going to go do client work, contract work, because it’s probably easier or it’s probably safer or it’s probably more rewarding than doing the client work. There’s some gain to it. And finding out what that gain is, is really helpful. 

ANNE

Okay. I like that definitely. I’m just wondering what my gain would be when I’m looking at the laundry and I’m like, it’s not done. I need to do it.

EMILY

But it makes you feel better and it makes you feel safe and clean and calm. But we actually, we’re trying to, we’re trying to  what’s the word? Cognize this. But a lot of the time it’s a lot deeper than in your conscious mind. The reason we’re doing these things is all subconscious and it’s in the body. And I, from my lens of study, everything comes from the body first. And so we move from the body and then it kind of tells our brain what to do and vice versa. It’s constant cycle. And so if you’re feeling this urge, you probably feel like a bit frustrated or a bit irritated in your body. You feel like a bit of a tug, like a pull towards the thing that you want to do. It’s almost like your body wants to just go move.

So that’s the thing that happens first, the sensation. And it’s happening because it’s stuck in some kind of cycle. So it’s getting to the bottom of that cycle and that will tell you why it’s happening.

Basically, that’s the kind of work I do.

ANNE

All right So it sounds again, and this is like a common thread that I’m noticing with a lot of conversations I’ve been having on the podcast is about listening to yourself, about stopping, about not rushing and jumping from one task to the next and ticking off all your to-dos, but holding on for a little minute and listening to yourself and really being honest. What is going on here? Either what do I need or what’s happening? Why do I feel this way? And is it really like questioning our automatic response? I guess that’s what it is. Like, hey, hold on.

Okay. Do I want to do this now? Or maybe is there something else that is actually really urgent or just more important or maybe more productive? So let’s say like we’re sitting on the sofa and we’re like, oh, I really need to do this, this laundry thing. And we have this bodily sensation. And then what do we do? We just like, oh, go away. I’ll sit here and I’ll watch TV or what, what could we do? 

EMILY

So the best thing that you can do is feel that sensation is just feel uncomfortable a minute, at least. And the reason that I get people to do this is because the more you can feel that sensation, the higher your tolerance is for it. And so imagine this, you’re sat on the sofa and you’re sat in a little box. Okay. And that feeling of uncomfortableness makes you want to get outside the box really, really quickly. You can’t deal with it. You have to go and do it. But the more you sit with the uncomfortable feeling, the bigger the box gets and bigger and bigger and bigger.

And then all of a sudden you’re in a full room. And then that uncomfortable feeling has dispersed throughout the whole room. And it’s not as uncomfortable anymore. You’re like, oh, I can actually be here.  Building capacity. And that’s the goal. 

So when you’re sat on the sofa and you’re feeling like I need to go do the laundry, just feel all the sensations in your body and breathe into them. There’s lots of things that we can do here, by the way, but you can breathe into them to start with and just notice what you want to go and do. Okay.

I feel a bit of a constriction in my chest. I feel a bit sick. Actually, I’ve got a bit of anxiety going on.

My emotional state is anxious. What is my body telling me? Well, my body wants to go, wants to like move over that. Okay, cool. It wants to move. What is my brain telling me? My brain’s telling me I have to go do this. I should do this.

And so when you start having this kind of language and these kinds of phrases running around your brain, this narrative is telling you that you’ve upped into a different kind of nervous system state. Because I should is an activated state.

So in that moment, just sit with it and then let yourself go do it if you want to still go do it. But just the longer you stay with it, the more progress you’ll make and the higher your expansion will be on a very basic level, the best way to deal with this is to just notice your nervous system states at any one time. So if you’re sat on the sofa and you’re fine and you’re happy and you’re, you’re in a green state and you’re chilled you’re in a, if you want to go into a very basic level, parasympathetic, I would call it eventual vagal state. I look through the lens of Stephen Podge’s polyvagal theory. So polyvagal theory for everyone listening is the approach of the nervous system. You can be in different states at one time, you can move up and down this scale of the nervous system. You can move fromeventual vagal all the way up into the sympathetic fight flight very quickly and all at the same time.

Whereas the traditional way of  looking at the nervous system was you just had the parasympathetic and you have the sympathetic and you’re either in one or the other. And that’s kind of been  like not disproving kind of thing with the, with the new science and the new research. if we look at the nervous system as this scale that you can go up and down on, I use a color spectrum green is the parasympathetic state and you’re nice and calm and chilled and being the sympathetic, you’re red and you’re yellow.

You’re sat on the sofa, you’re green, you’re chilled. And then all of a sudden you look at the washing and it triggers a survival pattern that we don’t know where that’s come from yet. Right.

It’s like a subconscious, um, imprint that’s happened at some point in time in your life. And then now it’s telling you that you should go and do the laundry and you’ve moved into a yellow. So knowing when you’re in a green and knowing when you’re in a yellow is really helpful because you can recognize what’s happening. 

ANNE

This is so interesting. And definitely I’m probably really that person who sits down and who then starts going from, Oh, this is nice to take a break to, there’s other things to do because I don’t do that so much at work, but when it comes to rest, and this is definitely a pattern that I’ve noticed and I’m working on to break because rest is necessary and essential and I deserve rest even if my laundry is not done or whatever else is not done. But I can definitely relate to this whole thing of like, okay, cool, chill. And then, Oh, hold on, hold on.

Something is going on here. And what came to my mind was when you described to sit there in the box and it becomes bigger and bigger and it turns into a room, it really felt like this thing. Okay.

I might still decide to go and do the laundry, but maybe the decision is more intentional. And maybe the reason why I’m going to do the laundry is different. It’s not the survival thing of like, Oh, I have to do the laundry more. Okay I can go and do the laundry now because yes, I do feel like I can put the laundry in the machine sort of things.

And I think this was like, when I thought this is sort of the reactive thing, like the reactive mode to the more proactive and intentional mode. And I think this is like bringing it back to the work that I do in terms of productivity. I think the whole urgency very often, this feeling comes from being in the reactive mode and not necessarily in a more proactive or intentional mode.

EMILY

Exactly. You are in a reactive mode because when you feel this sense of urgency all the time, it’s like having air conditioning in the background. It’s like being switched to on. And you’re, if you want to look at it from the nervous system spectrum, you’re in a yellow, you’re moving into a sympathetic state and you’re triggered subconsciously. You might not be triggered sat on the sofa, but subconsciously you are which means you’ve switched into a reactive mode, whether you realize it or not. And so if you’re constantly on all the time, you’re always coming from a reactive place.

And that’s why, for example, I work with teams and in these teams, every decision is reactive. Everybody’s firefighting. Everything’s urgent. All the deadlines are moved. All the deadlines are changed. The budget’s changed. The people changed. The ideas have changed because it’s coming from most of the founders I work with are in an on mode, like they’re in yellow all the time and they don’t make the best decisions because of it. And they don’t get the results because of it.

And so if we can just start to be more aware of our nervous system states, we can be aware that we are on and change it.

ANNE

This sounds for me, like it explains a little bit why I think my, my instinctive mode is to always jump from to the next project. Like I’m quite this creative person and I always have like quite a few things going on and when I’m done with something or when I’m stuck in something, because it’s not maybe working the way I want it, like automatically I’m like, okay, let’s go to this thing because this is, you know, like I just probably avoid maybe sitting with this discomfort.

And so I find that really interesting and I’m wondering, you also mentioned the word capacity and this like growing, like sitting in the discomfort. But I’m just wondering what else there could be as we can listen to it, but maybe on a more proactive way of like, let’s say we start our day, we go to work, we sit down on our desk.  What could we do there? Like, do you have any tips? Is that something that you teach the client?

EMILY

I actually have a model that I use with all my clients and it’s called A-R-E and everyone can use this. It’s super simple. And it’s helping you to, first of all, A is assess how am I doing today on all levels.

Number one, sensation wise, what’s happening in my body? Do I feel, have I got any aches and pains? Like do I have any discomfort? Do I feel tingly? Whatever. What’s my emotional state? Like, what’s my mindset? Like, do I feel like, oh, I can’t be bothered with today or do I feel like optimistic? Take note of how you feel and then adjust. 

So the next step is R, resource regulate. What do you need to do now to feel like you have to feel, do you need to show up today for loads of meetings? Have you got lots of work to do? If so, what needs to happen to make you ready for that? So I suggest lots of things like if you’re in an activated state, what do you feel like you need to do? Do you need to move? Do you need to go for a walk? Do you need to do some yoga? Do you need to do some breath work? I do something called internal resourcing with all of my clients. Do you need to do some kind of resourcing internally? Do you need to do any tapping? Like whatever your coping mechanism is at the time that you have resources for, go do it. Whatever makes you feel good.

Maybe you want to do meditation, visualization, whatever, whatever the tool may be, go do it and then set the intention to generate energy. So that’s the E, energy. If you need to be really prepared for these meetings today and you’re still like meh, a bit flat, how can you generate energy? And there’s many ways I can do this.

So my favorite way to do it is music. Everything for me is music. I’m a DJ. it’s like, and I say I’m a DJ because I’m not a professional DJ, but it’s what I do. I love it. And it makes me feel amazing. Like it makes me feel like my best human self. But what I do is I put music on and then I ask myself, who do I want to be today? How am I going to deal with stressful things and who can I support?

Surprise the day I asked those three questions whilst I’m like dancing around do my hair and stuff and it sets me up for intention and I get to my desk I’m like yes like this is going to be such a good day because you’ve you’ve followed intentional steps so you don’t have to make it as big as this and when I work with clients they’re able to manage this because they’ve been through quite a few steps with me but you could do it as simple as assess how am I feeling as a whole regulate do I need to move do I need to meditate is there something I can do to feel good right now and then energize what do I need to do to feel alive with intention yeah that’s what I get people to do every single morning and then you’re set up for the day.

ANNE

I know that I think I’m gonna create a little post-it that I’ll put next to my screen of like.

EMILY

that’s what I get them to do A.R.E.

ANNE

Exactly it’s like this visual reminder would be cool 

EMILY

Just simple questions like who do I need to be today like I ask myself every time I have a meet like today before this podcast I don’t usually take calls in the morning because my brain doesn’t work but I know that I need to be a certain way for this podcast I need to be energetic I need to be knowledgeable I need to be able to share experiences okay cool what do I need to do to get to that point well I went outside I had a banana I had coffee like all these kind of things that I know makes me feel good so it’s not just doing all the breathwork it’s like the holistic approach like what do you need to do to feel energized and then I turn up here and I’m like boom on can do it you can do that for anything it’s all about the intention behind it.

ANNE

I love that but what what came to mind for me is as well and before we wrap up I think it could be interesting to discuss that what if I have some sort of maybe not so resourceful way of dealing with these things you know I’m thinking like for example I many years ago used to really go to the oh let me just have a coffee and a cake that’s going to make me feel so much better external and that was not necessarily healthy like it just it gave me the energy and it made me feel better in the moment but it wasn’t how I wanted to fuel my body so I’m wondering what you would say to someone who has some sort of maybe not so positive way of resourcing herself what could she do

EMILY

So an external resource like that is a so it’s a negative external resource you can have positive external resources too and most people think that rewarding themselves with food or rewarding themselves with alcohol for example is good enough for them and so we don’t judge if that works for you fine but there are other ways to do it so it really depends on your nervous system state but let’s say you’re in activated most people are in a yellow activated state they’re anxious they feel they’ve got to go do stuff so let’s say you’re in that state I want you to just tap into the body for a second if you can a lot of people can’t sometimes tap into the body for a second and think what do I feel like I need to do right now am I craving sugar am I craving alcohol, am I craving like going into bed and do nothing just notice that for the for the minute and then take a step back and I always say that my favorite way to do this is to get grounded and you don’t need to be wooed for this by the way like we have energetic forces around us and we have gravity that pulls us into the ground all the time that’s how we stand in right you can feel grounded if you go outside so try and get yourself outside if possible and start to move the body movement helps to generate energy and kickstart you know it doesn’t matter if you are feeling groggy,  if you’re feeling anxious like movement just helps to move things along this is why we have all these ancient practices like qigong and yoga and everything right.

So get yourself outside I’ll try not to stand I’ll try and do it while I’m sat down I want you to ground your feet if you can take your shoes off if you’re in an office for example you can’t do this but you just need to stand somewhere where you’ve got enough space and I want you to start by swinging your body around so twisting at the hips and just I’ll show you here if I can get in the camera so everybody watching if you can see this so arms like this like this tapping on the hips on the opposite side and I want you to take in two sharp breaths through the nose and out through the mouth like a straw like this and just repeat it for as many times as you want to repeat it while swinging your arms around because what we’re doing here is the breath helps to down regulate the nervous system and the movement helps to move that irritated agitated feeling out of the body you’re just moving the energy around and you’re processing energy that’s stuck so you’re kind of tapping in two at once that’s what I do all the time that’s what I get my clients do there’s another hack that I really like and maybe I can try and describe it on here but if you’re watching as well you put your hands behind your neck and then you look up and then you look to the right and you deep do deep breaths here for about 30 seconds and then you move to the left you your eyes go to the left and you do deep breaths here and that also helps to down regulate.

So these are like two things the other one’s better if you’re like really fidgety and you’ve got energy this one is good if you’re just I feel a bit anxious and I need to down regulate really quickly…

ANNE

When you can do in the office because that’s not so obvious or when you’re with your kids I’m thinking you know like sometimes I need some regulation process that I can do next to my kids because they’re doing something really not so nice and they don’t see me juggling around.

EMILY

Exactly the best one for that honestly is the two breaths in two sharp breaths in and out like you’re breathing through a straw that really helps to down regulate the nervous system I use this I use there’s so many things that you can do for the moment my advice as a practitioner is use these I call them band-aids right use these band-aids like breath work all these tools are facilitators for creating peace right now in the moment but we need to work on your capacity to deal with it in the future so you don’t actually react like this yeah so you don’t get this stressed so for example I’ve got two really psycho dogs like they’re so barky they’ve they’ve had a tough life like one of them’s a rescue from the the mountains in Vietnam another one’s like a princess poodle um and if anyone’s got a poodle you’ll know what I mean by this um and they have a reputation they are just yeah they’re just like velcro dogs and um they’re really naughty really loud they they’ve flown like four times and I think honestly that did not do them the best good um I think it’s best them up and so um when we go on dog walks it’s like I don’t know if this dog walk is going to be like drama free or not um because there’s a cat kingdom in this village and it’s like the cats rule this place and the dogs are just like agitated all the time.

ANNE

I can sort of visualize what’s happening.

EMILY

It’s really funny so every time we go for a dog walk um they’re crazy they bark at everything they pull they’re really naughty and I just don’t get irritated anymore sometimes I do sometimes I like lose it and I’m like whoa what just happened there I need to work on that like that’s obviously got like some things triggered me or what happened before that why did I get to that state where I can’t handle it so but now it’s a lot better like I am much better than I used to be when we first moved to France dealing with it all and that’s because I’ve worked on the capacity in the background and that’s just through breaking um emotional circuits that are stuck there so and what I mean by that is going back to what we said, at the start of this um podcast we have all had some kinds of trauma or emotional things that have happened in our life and by trauma I don’t mean like terrible terrible things happening.  I mean an event has happened and the way you’ve reacted to it has created something in the body a pattern it could be as simple as like you not being able to find your mom in the supermarket that will be traumatic to a child it could be your dad showing up late to something when you’re a kid these things are manifested as like trauma in the body and how that looks is you then create a belief about yourself you become that person and that is who you are now and that’s how you think life is and it also means that for some people you’re in a dysregulated state a lot of the time you’re either in a on state or you’re completely off you’re offline you’re disassociated you’re numb many things can happen um doesn’t doesn’t matter what’s happened to you in the past it doesn’t actually yeah it doesn’t actually matter what the trauma was what’s important is that you’re able to find the sensation in the body and cut it.

Basically when I do sessions with people I’m an embodied processing practitioner and a somatic practitioner so I combine both um we go into the body we feel the sensations we are shown things so the subconscious when when your body’s in alpha there’s like when your brain’s in alpha and your body’s relaxed and you’re in a state of calm and green your subconscious actually shows you images and words and stuff and so you’re shown things we don’t make stories around these things that you’re shown because they can be true they can just be metaphors they’re shown and then we start to unpeel them and what we find is they’re just parts of ourselves that have splintered off and we now need to integrate them so it’s a bit of parts work and we start to integrate things and slowly slowly these patterns that have been running for like years and years and years just stop running and they move like they re-move into the body and they re-metabolize whatever you however you want to call it and so that’s dealt with and then maybe something else will come up and we deal with that but slowly slowly slowly the more you work on it the more capacity you get and I get my clients to um do a specific practice every single day that helps to build capacity and they also have the band-aid tools to help them in day-to-day life so we deal on two layers.

ANNE

Makes sense I love that this is super interesting and I think there’s so much more that I think we could talk about maybe we have to do a second part at some point to really get into these patterns and these deeper thing it’s it’s just I’m geeking out about these.

EMILY

I love it too do you know what’s really interesting so I because I’m a bit of a nerd I like get a bit obsessed with this stuff and so there’s always like advanced steps to what I do so I’m an embodied processing practitioner but then there’s like next levels and next levels that you can go through so I’m like just constantly going through all the levels and so I listen to all the modules all the time in the background like as like a I don’t know subconscious way to get information into my mind and I was listening to one yesterday and they were and it’s one I’ve already listened to and I’m this is I’m a geek I listen to everything like a thousand times and they were talking about how these energetic so these emotional stuck patterns these stuck emotions in the body could be likened to a samskara which is I think it’s Sanskrit for imprint um and so it’s a samskara it’s this imprint that happened in your system at some point and then that became who you are it developed into an identity and you could liken it to inner child work same thing so when you work with the therapist for example on inner child work work all you’re talking about is an emotional pattern you’re not actually talking about your small child you’re talking about like a part of you and also it’s similar to parts work if you’ve ever done any parts work like IFS.

it’s all the same stuff we just deal with it from different directions and so EP brings all the modalities together into like one process that’s why I like.

ANNE

Cool well like I saidI think I’ll have to bring you on again at some point but yeah let’s wrap it up I think if anybody has been listening it’s like oh gosh yeah I want to be a geek I want to work with a geek where do they connect with you what is the best place to find you?

EMILY

Come and find me on instagram emilyrosedallaracoach I’m also on linkedin Emily Rose Dallara everything’s Emily Rose Dallara I have a podcast bubbling out podcast don’t go to my website it’s not good I haven’t had time to work on that recently but go to the socials.

ANNE

Go to instagram and listen to her music as well it’s quite cool I love it, I find it so interesting that when when people have very different sort of you know interests and things that they bring into the world that are sometimes surprising like I’ve never met a DJ but I love your music and the podcast is great too thank you.

EMILY

But that was part of the nervous system work you know it was like  I loosened some this is a few years ago I like something untethered so I was doing work with an EP practitioner actually and she managed to we managed to cut through something and it was a release and then all this creativity just came through like it’d just been there the whole time but it’d been blocked and I was like music like I need to fill my life with music again I used to play piano I used to do all lots of different random things used to sing used to dance and I didn’t I stopped doing it for a long long long long time because I was totally in like a masculine energy of work and then that came through and that is like soothing like when I’m DJ it’s like life is good.

ANNE

I have the same with like I’m a crafty person I do a lot of macrame so if I tend to sit in my office next to my computer and do something like do my macrame it’s usually because I need that regulation and it’s like way of processing it for you it’s the music for me it’s the crafts I love that well.

EMILY

You asked me how do you go from being sat in the sofa and looking at the laundry well you’re actually that macrame is a resource for you could actually lean on that more and that will actually help you increase capacity.

ANNE

Totally exactly this is why like a couple of years ago I started doing more creative things again little projects and DIY and sewing and because I really felt like I haven’t done that for so many years similar to you like just doing doing and going going urgency like we you know what we talked about today and not leaving any room for these things but I know that these things really help me to come back and to center and to feel just so much better so totally love that conversation today thank you so much Emily it was a huge pleasure to have you.

EMILY

You too thank you so much Anne.

OUTRO

Emily and I geeked out over this topic and we actually kept talking a little bit more even when I had stopped the recording and I love that this conversation really got to the heart of something that I see often especially in high achieving entrepreneurs we think our productivity struggles are about poor planning procrastination or not being disciplined enough but what if it’s really about the nervous system overload and here’s the biggest takeaway I want to leave you with today you cannot strategize your way out of a dysregulated state .

When your body is in survival mode you’re rushing people pleasing reacting no productivity system will feel sustainable you don’t need to push harder you need to actually feel safer and that’s why peaceful productivity is rooted in nervous system awareness because if your work constantly feels overwhelming frantic or heavy the answer isn’t doing more it’s learning to shift from this reactive state to a responsive state and that’s where clarity lives that’s where true capacity is built so today I invite you to notice where urgency might be driving your decisions and instead of pushing through and I want you to ask yourself what would it look like to slow down just enough to regulate and move forward from a more responsive state rather than a reactive state and if you’re craving a space to do that to pause to reset and plan from a place of alignment. 

I would love to invite you to my upcoming quarterly planning workshop it’s on Monday June 17th it’s a live guided session where we step out of the daily hustle and we take a high level view of what really matters in the coming months we will build your quarter three plan through the lens of energy capacity and focus if ever you wanted to create a plan that actually honors how you want to feel this is for you.

I’ll drop the link in the show notes or you can simply dm me on instagram it’s @_annerajoooo_ and I will get you booked in it’s a intimate small group so that we can do the hands-on work and get you set up for a successful Q3 and next week I’ll be back with a conversation about motherhood time management and identity based habits we’ll explore how the way we see ourselves shapes how we spend our time and what it really takes to build routines that support who we are becoming especially as mothers but also women in general and entrepreneurs I can’t wait to share this one with you and until next time stay peacefully productive I’ll catch you soon.