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E126 - What You're Holding Onto… Is Holding You Back. Release It!
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- May 14, 2026
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What You're Holding Onto… Is Holding You Back. (It's time to RELEASE it!) Is there something heavy you’ve been carrying around for a while? A project that never quite gets finished. A conversation you keep rehearsing in your head. A fear of what people might say if you actually put your work out there. A version of yourself you have quietly outgrown but cannot seem to let go of. Friend, you drag this heavy weight for the rest of your life. You're not stuck with it. You are just holding on too tight, and it’s time to let it go. In Episode 126 of Create Today, Beth Buffington walks you through the fourth and final word in her "Going FourWords" framework. And this one might be the most important word of all. That word is Release. What You Will Hear in This Episode: • Why we hold on in the first place. Beth opens by asking you to check in with your own heart. • What feels heavy right now? What are you gripping onto that you did not even realize you were carrying? The answer might surprise you. • The science of what rumination is actually doing to your body. When you replay a stressful thought over and over, your nervous system treats it as a real and present threat. That means you can wake up with high cortisol levels from a conversation that has not even happened yet. • What release actually is, and what it is not. Release is not giving up. It is not lowering your standards or quitting on your dreams. Release is the moment you decide: I have done what I can do, and now I am going to trust myself enough to let it go. • Why most procrastination is not laziness at all. What most people call procrastination is actually fear. Fear of judgment, fear of rejection, fear of being seen and not measuring up. Once you understand that, the whole thing becomes a lot easier to work with…