The Art of Showing Up
Ever wonder why people talk about “showing up” so much? What even is it? What the cuss does it mean? Join me while we break down the different ways we can show up in life and for each other, ourselves, and all the other wonderful ways life provides!
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CHAPTER 73 - SHOWING UP WHERE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN (opens the original)
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What do you say when someone you love is going through something you have never experienced? Sometimes our instinct is to search our own lives for something comparable. We want to say I understand. We want the right words. We want to make things better. But sometimes the truth is much simpler: We don’t understand. And maybe we don’t have to. In this episode, Jes explores what it means to love people through experiences we cannot personally relate to—and why empathy doesn’t require us to manufact
CHAPTER 72 - THE DAY I STOPPED WAITING (opens the original)
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How much of your life is sitting on the other side of when ? When they apologize. When you finally understand. When you feel ready. When you become more successful, more confident, more healed, more enough. When the thing you’ve been hoping for finally happens. Waiting doesn’t always look like standing still. You can build a whole life while quietly believing some part of it hasn’t really begun yet. In this episode of The Art of Showing Up , Jes explores the invisible bargains we make with the f
CHAPTER 71 - SHOWING UP FOR THE STRONG ONE (opens the original)
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Everybody knows who to call when everything falls apart. But who notices when that person’s hands start shaking? This week on The Art of Showing Up , we’re talking about “the strong one”—the person everyone trusts, relies on, calls first, and assumes will somehow figure it out. Because strength isn’t the problem. The problem is what happens when someone’s strength becomes the reason we stop offering them care. Jes explores the loneliness that can come with being capable: when functioning gets mi
CHAPTER 70 - THE LAST TIME YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THE LAST TIME (opens the original)
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There was a last time someone picked you up and carried you. A last sleepover. A last time you called someone’s house and had to talk to their parents first. A last time everyone fit around that table. A last time someone belonged to your everyday life. And chances are…you had absolutely no idea it was happening. This week on The Art of Showing Up , Jes explores the ordinary moments that quietly become history—the friendships that change shape, the traditions that slowly disappear, the versions
CHAPTER 69 - SHOWING UP FOR THE MESSY CRY IN THE PARKING LOT (opens the original)
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Have you ever held yourself together all day…only to completely fall apart after you turned the car off? Why does that happen? Why does our nervous system wait until the grocery store parking lot, the driveway, or the car after therapy to finally let us feel everything we’ve been carrying? In this episode, Jes explores the beautifully inconvenient timing of our emotions, why we feel embarrassed when our humanity becomes visible, and how those seemingly messy moments might actually be evidence th
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