Have you ever spent more energy avoiding something than it would have actually taken to just do it?

This week I finally recorded my first yoga teacher certification video. Six months late. Fifteen minutes of footage nobody will ever see. One husband who said two words. And one hour that actually counted.

What happened in the middle of all of that led me straight to Saucha, the first Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition, and it had something very specific to say about what I had been doing to myself.

Saucha means purity. But not the kind you are thinking. This episode gets into what purity actually looks like in everyday life, the energy that moves through us in moments of unexpected beauty, the beginner's mind, and three words from Anthony de Mello that I am still sitting with.

Leave yourself alone.

If you have been managing yourself, judging yourself, or making something simple into a whole production, this one is for you.

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What happens when everything you built your identity around disappears in less than a year?

Dr. Susan Miele was a Chief People Officer at a Fortune 500 company. She reached the C suite before 40, which had been her goal since she was a teenager. Her career was not just what she did. It was who she was. Then at 42, undiagnosed perimenopause began dismantling everything. Her performance. Her marriage. Her sense of self. She resigned without a plan, downsized her life, and then watched her new home burn to the ground twelve days after moving in.

In less than twelve months she lost her career, her health, and her home.

What followed was not a reinvention. It was a pause. And that pause became the foundation for her book, Paused: Redefining Identity When Our Story No Longer Holds Us.

In this conversation we get into the story she wrote for herself at fourteen and lived into for decades, what perimenopause really looks like when it does not look like what anyone told you to expect, why she spent seven years trying to get back to who she was before she realized there was no going back, the three questions that anchor identity, who am I, how did I get here, and where am I going, what it means to try on possible selves like clothes in a dressing room, and why the struggle is the path.

This episode also touches on menopause in the workplace and why less than twenty percent of US companies currently offer any menopausal benefits, even as fifty percent of their workforce will experience it.

If you have ever defined yourself by what you do and wondered who you would be without it, this conversation is for you.

Connect with Susan:
Website: www.susanmiele.com
Substack: https://susanannmiele.substack.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-a-miele-phd/
LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/paused-refections-on-identity-7318329934446276609/
Susan A. Miele PhD Book: Paused: Redefining Identity When Our Story No Longer Holds Us, available wherever books are sold

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There is a grand piano in your life that you keep trying to carry to the dining room.

Maybe it is a career you walked away from but still dream about. Maybe it is clothes hanging in your closet from a chapter that is already closed. Maybe it is a story about who you are that you wrote a long time ago and have not been able to put down.

In this episode we get into Aparigraha, the fifth and final Yama from the ancient yogic tradition, and what non attachment actually looks like in real life. Drawing on Deborah Adele's book The Yamas and Niyamas, we explore the difference between loving something fully and clinging to it, why letting go feels like being suspended in midair on a trapeze, and what a teenager with no plans for packing taught one of the wisest women I know about freedom.

Plus a brief tease of next week's guest, who held on to a story she created at age fourteen for decades, and what it cost her.

If you have ever thought you let go of something only to find it still showing up in your dreams, this one is for you.

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