Chapter Four: Riding the Wave
Tina arrives at session three noticeably lighter — a completely different energy than the last two calls. She rattles off updates almost too fast to keep track of: a doctor's visit that got cut short by a moving-day scheduling mixup (she and her family found a new apartment after their old one sold out from under them), a shiatsu session already rebooked for the following week, and a genuinely sweet moment with her husband the night before, where she actually asked about his day instead of the other way around, and fell asleep mid-conversation in his arms.
Then comes the headline: she went bouldering, spontaneously, after work. A friend's comment about being "skinny fat" had lodged in her head, and instead of spiraling into self-criticism, it nudged her back toward movement she used to love. She's glowing about it, and Danna points out the obvious link — that burst of energy is exactly what fueled the reconnection with her husband that same night.
The trickier thread is Tina's music life. She's now singing in three separate bands, something she admits sounds "ridiculous" when she says it out loud, plus a new cross-company collaboration that landed in her lap during a Eurovision-fueled moment at work. Rather than telling her to cut back, Danna asks a sharper question: how much joy does each one actually bring? Tina's answer is refreshingly honest — genuine joy, mostly, though one band leaves her drained by the long commute home. Nothing gets decided on the spot, but Danna hands her a tool to figure it out for herself: the Circle of Life exercise, to map out where she's thriving and where she's stretched thin.
They also touch on grief, gently — Tina's finding her own way to hold her grandmother's memory without the pressure to "move on," and reframes it instead as adjusting to a new normal. Sleep is still inconsistent, but better than zero good nights, which she's calling a win.
Before wrapping up, Danna adds one new tool: Mel Robbins' Five Second Rule, a simple countdown trick to override the mental resistance to doing the healthy thing. The homework for the coming weeks is small and specific — the Circle of Life reflection, plus two "for me" activities a week that have nothing to do with anyone else's needs.
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Chapters:
00:00 Catching Up
00:12 Doctor Visit Update
00:51 House Sold Moving Plans
03:12 Sleep Grounding and Connection
05:56 Skinny Fat to Bouldering High
09:10 Balancing Bands and Fitness
15:14 Wheel of Life and Next Steps
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