HeyJaredJoyful with Chloe Markham
Weekly nervous system relief, joyful philosophy, & honest writing for women who want to feel properly alive. Because life's too short for anything less.
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What Is Bracing? Why You Can Feel Calm and Still Be Clenched (opens the original)
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It was a few years ago, and I was a walking ball of tension. Despite being a yoga teacher, my shoulder blades seemed fused together, my upper back ached, and I was noticing how that harmless habit of eating my feelings was causing my clothes to shrink. I needed to do something or else I’d get all those horrible stress-related diseases they talk about online, or I’d get fatter and fatter until they’d have to winch me out of the house.All I knew: I couldn’t keep maintaining this level of anxiety f
You Know Fight, Flight, & Freeze. Meet Fawn. (opens the original)
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I shared on the podcast this week: my default is to down-play and undersell myself when I meet new people. I apologise, there’s caveats, there’s “oh, it’s just…” I noticed recently when I didn’t do that — when I spoke truthfully, unapologetically, and with big self-worth when I met someone new — it left me feeling a billion times more alive and more worthy. And that’s all down to me, and it’s a nervous system strategy. Your nervous system, like mine, is constan
You're Not Overthinking. You're Chasing Certainty. (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome to being human. We’re all overthinking, and anxious, and stressed, and burning out at the speed of light. Why? Because we just want control over everything — if we can control it, we can contain it, and life stays reasonable and enjoyable and unproblematic.Except of course that’s all a fallacy created by the overthinking gremlins that’ve taken over our brains.And the entire optimisation industry — productivity drinks, ‘optimised sleep machines’ (i.e. beds 🙄), 23-step guides th
Stoicism 101 (opens the original)
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I don’t want to brag, but I studied philosophy at A-level. Pretty impressive, hey? Except I was the only student in my entire school who wanted to study it, so they gave me an enormous binder and told me to crack on. I didn’t even get a teacher, not a single video for me to watch. Nothing. And this was the days before YouTube.I tried my best, but my wandering mind and fidgeting hands struggled with the heaviness of the subject matter. Because it felt fucking heavy. I sat an exam — I can’t rememb
Still Putting It Off? Read This (opens the original)
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I’ve been reading Stephen King’s On Writing recently, and it’s bloody brilliant. This week I read the epilogue, On Life, in which he shares how, halfway through writing the book, he was walking down a quiet road in America somewhere and was hit by a speeding car that came out of nowhere.Cue five weeks in hospital. Doctors telling him he’s lucky to be alive. A cage around his leg, steel pins in his joints, and intense rehab for months. It was one of the most emotional things I’ve read in years (a
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