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Learn to Tolerate Ease: How Compassion Softened What Pressure Never Could | Episode 336

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Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery
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Jan 26, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a deeply personal realization about how long I treated myself like a project instead of a person, and how learning to tolerate ease required far more courage than pushing ever did. This episode isn’t about productivity, optimization, or mindset. It’s about what happens when compassion reaches places that pressure never could, and how shame begins to release when the nervous system finally feels contextuali...