# 456 Something About Slowing Down • Sue Crites

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Podcast: [Qiological Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/qiological-podcast-915251)
Published: 2026-04-14T05:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://qiological.com
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## Resource

In practice, healing often begins with seeking a solution to a problem that has us looking for help. What first looks like a search for relief becomes an encounter with something wider: the patterns of striving, the habits of attention, and the quiet ways body, mind, and spirit reorganise when we slow down enough to notice. Sue Crites is a qigong teacher with a background in ecological science, holistic nutrition, and bioenergetic medicine. Her path into this work began through caregiving, chronic illness in her family, and her own unexpected experience of healing, which opened into a deeper exploration of energy, presence, and the practice of non-striving. Listen into this conversation as we explore how repetitive and even “boring” practices can become powerful agents of change; why peace is different from resignation; how qigong can soften the grip of anxiety, over-efforting, and old beliefs. And what it means to cultivate steadiness in a world designed to keep us distracted.

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