Sometimes, when you’re tired, you feel worse after resting and have no idea why. Sometimes giving yourself a break leaves you more exhausted than before.

And even if you know how to stay healthy, even if you’re eating well and sleeping enough, some days you feel like you just can’t get off the couch, and it takes all of your discipline to make yourself do anything at all.

Why does this happen?

Because “low energy” comes in different forms - and those forms require different approaches to feel better.

Rest needs to match the root cause of tiredness in order to be effective.

This is exactly why relaxation and self care can have the opposite effect: leaving you unmotivated, empty, and melancholy when it was supposed to “fill your cup.”

In this episode, I explain the 4 Types of Energy: what each of them does, what they’re responsible for, and what they feel like when they’re low.

So let’s get to the bottom of why rest can be draining, how to avoid this, and how to start mastering your energy!

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A personal update of what's been shifting for me in 2025!

This year, I threw the "plan" out the window. It wasn't working. Turns out, I do NOT know best.

Turns out, life wants me to go in a different direction - when I open up and let myself be led instead of trying to control everything.

In this episode I talk about how my coaching business has been difficult and slow to build, and how my painting business is the opposite: smooth and easeful, and how it's been rewarding when I lean into my painting business instead of trying to force the coaching business to work.

I also share about our family’s vision for our financial future, how my businesses play into it, and how my husband and I have both been pivoting our work towards this vision.

And, I talk about what changes are happening to this podcast, to my coaching business model, and to my work as a whole in 2026.

I’m living and allowing my own Radical Redirection as we speak!

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Start your Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/life-redirection

Learn about your 4 Energy Types: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/energy

Work with me: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/my-method

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Contact me: https://yekaterinabenson.com/contact

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A meditation for when you're going through a tough time: a difficult life event, breakup, conflict at work, extreme overwhelm, or simply when you're feeling like you're dealing with a lot.

Try this meditation to regain a sense of calm, safety, and agency.

Listen to Episode 9: "When You're Going Through a Crisis" for a step-by-step to get yourself out of survival mode and back into a relaxed and creative state.

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Join the free New Year’s Evolution Experience: https://t.me/newyearsevolution

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It’s early November 2024, which means: 1) Hurricane Helene just devastated Asheville and Western North Carolina (where we live), 2) the elections just took place, and 3) the world is in an unsteady state.

What an appropriate time to have an episode on dealing with a crisis!

In this episode, I give a brief update on what happened to us (and why I haven’t released any episodes for 1.5 months) and how we’ve been coping, plus a whole methodology on how to bring yourself back to your emotional and energetic baseline after a crisis.

Here’s the thing: the crisis can linger with you long after it’s done. If the nervous system gets stuck in a trauma loop, your body will feel like you’re still in survival mode. It doesn’t matter what the crisis was: a breakup, loss of a job, loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, a conflict with someone else. If we don’t take the steps in this episode, the body WILL be stuck in a trauma loop for a long time afterwards!

Tune in to learn how to help your body break out of it and get back to a calm, creative, and joyful state.

Plus, an update on where the Radical Redirection community is headed, and a special invitation to my next free online event! (Links below)

BONUS (after listening to the episode):

Journal prompts to reconnect with your soul, your creativity, and your power after a crisis and regain a sense of agency:

• What did this experience illuminate for me?
• What positive qualities did this experience bring out in me? (How did I exhibit resilience/kindness/wisdom/understanding/perspective/faith/etc?)
• What’s in my power right now? What’s in my sphere of influence?
• What is this inspiring me to DO? What can I create with this experience as the raw material?
• What do I want to do (or do differently) moving forward?
• If I imagine myself 5 years in the future, looking back at this moment, what action or choice would make me really proud?

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START HERE: https://yekaterinabenson.com/

Free New Year’s Evolution Challenge: https://t.me/newyearsevolution

Free SHIFT YOUR STATE OF BEING workshop: https://youtu.be/WZuiuYAmXZ4

PDF guide ENERGY ESSENTIALS TO SUPPORT YOUR STATE OF BEING (goes along with the workshop above): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VQPYGrqD58tZXNTa_Q5eT3t6cbpbpjot/view?usp=sharing

Read more about the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/blog/radical-redirection-steps

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You have an incredible vision of your ideal future, you feel called to pursue your passion, you know what you want in life - but why, why, why is it SO hard to actually get there?

In this episode, we explore the brain’s hidden mechanisms: how what keeps us safe and outwardly successful is actually keeping us stuck and hurting on the inside.

Your soul is very unique and special, but your limitations are not. And there’s a silver lining here: the challenges you think is insurmountable are actually quite common, and there’s a straightforward solution that involves changing how your brain’s filters work. Start learning how to do that in this episode!

While patterns such as fear of mistakes, people pleasing, and inner criticism may feel like they define our lives, they’re merely a shell of false protection over your soul. And if you have them, your soul WANTS to learn how to break these false protections. So doing this work is part of your path of purpose in this lifetime.

Plus, learn how to shift the power dynamic in your subconscious: giving less power to the unhelpful patterns and more power to your big vision.

Your dream life is more possible than you realize.

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START HERE: https://yekaterinabenson.com/

Read more about the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/blog/radical-redirection-steps

FREE MASTERCLASS on the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/free-workshop-radical-redirection-replay

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Contact me: https://yekaterinabenson.com/contact

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When you think about your life as a whole, what are some of the most important things you want for yourself? The BIG things? Owning a home one day, going through life with a loving partner, traveling, having a family, retiring early?

And now, be honest - how many of those things are on autopilot right now?

We tend to put the most important things on autopilot. “They’ll happen somehow, I just need to work hard at my job.” The unspoken belief is: “Everyone seems to figure it out eventually, so I will too.”

But putting the important things on autopilot while giving our 110% to an exhausting day job is NOT how we create our ideal life.

This episode dives right in to Step 1 of the Radical Redirection process: creating a VISION. A vision of your future, a vision of your best life.

After all, everything we have around us is a result of first thinking about it. So let’s aim our thought process in the right direction!

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START HERE: https://yekaterinabenson.com/

FREE VISIONING WORKSHOP: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/life-direction-workshop

Read more about the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/blog/radical-redirection-steps

Life Balance Wheel (Wheel of Life) exercise: https://www.betterup.com/blog/wheel-of-life

Apply for 1:1 Coaching: https://forms.gle/VLkg5qcPZ7B4Bqx38

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yekaterina_benson/

Contact me: https://yekaterinabenson.com/contact

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Let’s be real. There’s DEFINITELY something that separates the people who do remarkable and inspiring things from the rest of us.

What is it, and how can ALL of us cultivate it? Tune in to find out.

In episode 5, we discussed how self-judgment stops us from changing our lives. In this episode, we’ll talk about self-doubt - the other major force that gets in the way when we aim higher.

Also: how self-doubt leads to stuckness, why stuckness feels worse than failure, and what to do about it. (And how to find that “main character energy” and do the cool things you want to do!)

If you ever find yourself secretly jealous of other people who seem to be leading way cooler lives, this episode is for you!

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START HERE: https://yekaterinabenson.com/

Read more about the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/blog/radical-redirection-steps

FREE MASTERCLASS on the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/free-workshop-radical-redirection-replay

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When the critical voice in your head gets loud, take a few minutes to soothe it with this meditation.

Follow along anywhere, anytime: walking, sitting, laying down, pausing at work.

Listen to Episode 5: "Judging Yourself for Wanting More: How to Turn Self-Judgment into Kindness" for how to stop believing the harsh and critical voice in your head.

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START HERE: https://yekaterinabenson.com/

Read more about the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/blog/radical-redirection-steps

FREE MASTERCLASS on the steps of Radical Redirection: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/free-workshop-radical-redirection-replay

Apply for 1:1 Coaching: https://forms.gle/VLkg5qcPZ7B4Bqx38

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Contact me: https://yekaterinabenson.com/contact

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