You're not disorganized — you're carrying the mental load. 🧠 Research shows working moms juggle about 14 open mental tabs at any moment. In this episode, we name the mental gymnastics 🤸‍♀️, then practice the physiological sigh together: a 10-second, Stanford-backed breathwork tool proven to calm your nervous system faster than meditation. 🫁 Plus, set one small weekly intention that actually sticks. ✨ Your anchor phrase: exhale before you respond. 🤍

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

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Most of us got two options for a hard feeling: swallow it or drown in it. In this episode I hand you the third — a two-minute practice you can do in a parked car: name it, locate it, move it. We cover the UCLA research on why naming an emotion literally calms the brain's alarm center ("name it to tame it"), why swallowed feelings wait for 2 a.m., and a gentle guided tapping round to move the feeling through instead of carrying it. Waves, not floods.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam

Feeling behind this week? Check whose ruler you’re holding. In this minisode I share the appointment where a doctor I’ve known for years responded to my new chapter with “we’ll see how long this lasts” — and how the old me would have carried that sentence home. Plus the mayflies that covered my car one night and what they taught me about underwater seasons: growing unseen isn’t behind, it’s before. Hand back the ruler.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam