When your life is perfectly good on the outside, but you constantly feel miserable, what do you do?

When everything is technically fine, but all you can think is: “why am I like this, when will this end, will life ever get better” - how do you get out of this emotional funk?

For me, part of the problem was basing my happiness on outside factors: success at my job, making money, my relationship, adventurous vacations, fun weekends. I was happy when I had these things. My happiness was conditional.

So when most of those things went away, I had to confront this pattern, and learn how to source happiness from within myself.

In this episode, I share 3 practices that helped me do that.

These practices are also what helps me stop and reverse emotional downward spirals.

So when you’re feeling down on yourself, when negative thoughts take over, and when it feels like life’s getting worse and worse: listen to this episode. Do the simple practices. Bring yourself back into balance.

For more on this, join me inside my Substack, Zen Garden.

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Sometimes, when you’re tired, you feel worse after resting and have no idea why. Sometimes giving yourself a break leaves you more exhausted than before.

And even if you know how to stay healthy, even if you’re eating well and sleeping enough, some days you feel like you just can’t get off the couch, and it takes all of your discipline to make yourself do anything at all.

Why does this happen?

Because “low energy” comes in different forms - and those forms require different approaches to feel better.

Rest needs to match the root cause of tiredness in order to be effective.

This is exactly why relaxation and self care can have the opposite effect: leaving you unmotivated, empty, and melancholy when it was supposed to “fill your cup.”

In this episode, I explain the 4 Types of Energy: what each of them does, what they’re responsible for, and what they feel like when they’re low.

So let’s get to the bottom of why rest can be draining, how to avoid this, and how to start mastering your energy!

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Work with me: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/my-method

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yekaterina_benson/

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A personal update of what's been shifting for me in 2025!

This year, I threw the "plan" out the window. It wasn't working. Turns out, I do NOT know best.

Turns out, life wants me to go in a different direction - when I open up and let myself be led instead of trying to control everything.

In this episode I talk about how my coaching business has been difficult and slow to build, and how my painting business is the opposite: smooth and easeful, and how it's been rewarding when I lean into my painting business instead of trying to force the coaching business to work.

I also share about our family’s vision for our financial future, how my businesses play into it, and how my husband and I have both been pivoting our work towards this vision.

And, I talk about what changes are happening to this podcast, to my coaching business model, and to my work as a whole in 2026.

I’m living and allowing my own Radical Redirection as we speak!

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Zen Garden Substack: https://zengardenletters.substack.com/

Start your Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/life-redirection

Learn about your 4 Energy Types: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/energy

Work with me: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/my-method

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yekaterina_benson/

Contact me: https://yekaterinabenson.com/contact

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