The Power of a Spark

Trusting your energy, Listening to inner knowing

Send me a Text Message [https://www.buzzsprout.com/855145/fan_mail/new] Episode 44: Trusting Your Energy Learning to Listen to Your Inner Knowing Episode Description Have you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Or sensed that a new direction was calling you—but doubted yourself because you couldn't explain why? In this episode, we're exploring what it means to trust your energy. Not blindly. Not perfectly. But with curiosity, discernment, and compassion. Our energy is constantly communicating with us. It shows up in what energizes us, what drains us, what expands us, what contracts us, and what repeatedly asks for our attention. Perhaps trusting your energy isn't about becoming more certain. Perhaps it's about becoming more willing to listen. Reflective questions for thought or journal prompts:  1. What consistently gives me energy? 2. What consistently drains me? 3. Where do I feel most like myself? 4. Have there been times when my energy knew before I did? 5. What am I trying to talk myself out of? 6. If I truly loved myself, what would I stop arguing with myself about? 7. What is my energy trying to tell me right now? Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/juliehasselberger] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav [https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg]

Protect your energy, boundaries and self-love

Send me a Text Message [https://www.buzzsprout.com/855145/fan_mail/new] Season 5 • Episode 43 Protecting Your Energy The Adapted Life: Finding Next In this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie explores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting your energy — especially after loss, caregiving, burnout, betrayal, trauma, or seasons of deep emotional exhaustion. As part of the Season 5 theme, Tending to the Energy, this conversation reflects on what happens when we become more aware of where our energy is going… and realize that not everything deserves full access to us. Julie shares gentle reflections about emotional labor, boundaries, overstimulation, compassion fatigue, and the pressure many sensitive people feel to constantly give, explain, fix, or carry. This episode offers permission to step back without guilt, to honor your nervous system, and to recognize that boundaries are not punishment — they are stewardship. Through calming encouragement and thoughtful insight, listeners are invited to consider: • What restores versus drains them • The hidden cost of constant giving • Why protecting your peace is an act of healing • How grief and trauma can change our capacity• The importance of creating space for recovery, creativity, and presence This episode is a reminder that protecting your energy is not selfish — it is part of tending the light within you. You, are not the weather, you dear friends, are the lighthouse.  Take a breath, settle in, and join Julie for a gentle conversation about honoring your limits, reclaiming your peace, and learning that you are allowed to protect what is sacred in you. Music by Epidemic Sound written, recorded, and created by Julie Hasselberger Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/juliehasselberger] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav [https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg]

You Were Trying to Love, guided meditation

Send me a Text Message [https://www.buzzsprout.com/855145/fan_mail/new] This is a guided meditation for anyone who is going through betrayal trauma or deep grief.  Or both.  You are not the storm.  You are the lighthouse my friends.  This is a healing meditation, and a poem of encouragement.  I Love you.  Please let me know if you like this meditation Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/juliehasselberger] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav [https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg]

Tending to your energy

Send me a Text Message [https://www.buzzsprout.com/855145/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we talk about what we do once we are experiencing awareness of our energy.  Not fixing it, but just being aware of gentle ways to tend to that energy.  WHAT TENDING IS Tending to your energy is not about fixing yourself. It’s not about getting it right. It’s about noticing… and responding… with care. Moment by moment.   Gentle self care, can sometimes lessen the impact that your energy may have on you.   Join me as I continue to follow the intuitive path through deep and tragic grief towards where life is pulling me next.  And maybe you can resonate with this journey.   I am so grateful that you are here.  Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/juliehasselberger] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav [https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg]

Calling your energy back, a guided meditation

Send me a Text Message [https://www.buzzsprout.com/855145/fan_mail/new] In this guided meditation, we just take a few minutes to focus on where our energy has been sent today, and peacefully call some it back to us.  Thank you for listening!  Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/juliehasselberger] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav [https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg]