What if the reason you feel overwhelmed right now isn’t confusion… but capacity?

In this powerful and deeply relatable episode, Kate explores one of the most essential — and rarely taught — skills for navigating midlife, uncertainty, and emotional intensity: containment.

Through a personal story that begins with a perfectly planned day and a sudden emergency, she unpacks how nervous system capacity — not mindset or willpower — determines whether we react impulsively or respond with clarity.

Because most people don’t make bad decisions when life gets intense because they lack clarity.

They make them because they can’t tolerate the intensity they’re feeling.

You’ll learn what containment actually is, how it works in the brain and body, and why it’s the missing piece for women navigating midlife transitions, relationship shifts, identity changes, and a rapidly changing world.

If life feels like a lot right now — personally or globally — this episode will help you understand why… and what actually helps.

• Why emotional intensity often gets mistaken for intuition or urgency
• The nervous system science behind impulsive reactions and overwhelm
• How containment allows you to pivot instead of panic
• The difference between repression and true emotional capacity
• Why midlife increases activation — and how to work with it
• Practical nervous system tools you can use in under 60 seconds
• How presence becomes leadership in uncertain times

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)

What if slowing down isn’t something you do after you fix your life — but the very thing that allows you to live it?

In this episode, Kate Garland explores why so many women feel stuck in constant urgency, overdrive, and emotional exhaustion — and why slowing down isn’t about doing less, opting out, or “calming down,” but about reclaiming presence, capacity, and aliveness in a world that no longer offers a clear map.

Blending lived experience, nervous system wisdom, midlife insight, and a few very human stories (including grief, sourdough, and rage-vacuuming), this episode reframes slowing down as the work — not a reward for getting everything right.

If you’re navigating midlife, burnout, anxiety, or the sense that the old ways of pushing through just don’t work anymore, this conversation will meet you where you are.

• Why women speed up — emotional labor, overfunctioning, hypervigilance, and the pressure to be everything to everyone
• How the nervous system calibrates to constant urgency — and why it becomes your “normal”
• The difference between pausing and truly slowing down
• Why midlife forces a reckoning with speed, burnout, and capacity
• How slowing down builds nervous system capacity instead of shrinking your life
• Slowing down as quiet resistance and embodied leadership
• Why presence — not productivity — is what helps us navigate uncertainty and no-map land
• Simple, tangible ways to slow down without overhauling your life

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)

A conversation about nervous system safety, self-responsibility, and energetic sovereignty

When the world feels unpredictable, overwhelming, or strangely unmoored, the problem isn’t that you’re doing something wrong — it’s that we’re living in what I call no-map land.

Old systems no longer hold.

New ones aren’t fully formed.

And many sensitive, capable women are quietly carrying far more than they should.

In this episode, I explore the concept of energetic sovereignty — not as a buzzword or spiritual bypass, but as a lived, embodied capacity to stay centered, grounded, and intact even when life feels chaotic.

We talk about:

• Why self-responsibility can quietly turn into self-sacrifice
• The difference between being capable and being centered
• How nervous system regulation, emotional literacy, and boundaries only work when they’re integrated
• What it really means to stay with yourself — without fixing, bracing, or over-functioning
• Why midlife is often the initiation point into true sovereignty

This is not about opting out of the world.

It’s about staying in it — without abandoning yourself.

If you’ve been doing “the work” but still feel tired, leaky, or subtly braced…

If you’re highly sensitive, deeply capable, and secretly exhausted…

If you sense that something deeper is being asked of you now…

This conversation is for you.

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

And finally, if anxiety has been looping in your body or mind, I have a simple gift for you. My FREE 54321 Anxiety Reset is a 7-minute, guided practice you can return to anytime you need to interrupt the spiral and come back into breath, body, and presence.

However you’re walking with this work—thank you. I’m so glad our paths have crossed. Don't forget to Subscribe/Follow (and maybe drop a review!)

xx.

Kate

• The Hearth → https://www.radicallykate.com/store/p/hearth-monthly
• The Second Firing → www.radicallykate.com/sf-waitlist
• FREE Reset Anxiety in 7 Minutes → https://radicallykate.kit.com/a2207ff482
• WEBSITE: https://www.radicallykate.com/
• Instagram: @radicallykate (Send me a DM!)