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The Week Your Nervous System Asks for Something Different

How to stop overriding yourself and start leading from capacity.

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Dharma Funder
Dec 03, 2025
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There’s a week every leader hits that feels strangely familiar and entirely new:

You’re functioning.
You’re doing the things.
But something in your system is shifting.
Quietly.
Persistently.
Without asking permission.

You’re not breaking down.
You’re breaking pattern.

Suddenly:

the meetings that once energized you feel hollow
the tolerance you used to have evaporates
the conversations you used to absorb drain you instantly
the old identity feels too tight, too small, too outdated

This is the week your nervous system says:

“We’re not doing it this way anymore.”

It’s not rebellion.
It’s recalibration.

A turning away from performance.
A turning toward coherence.
A turning back to the truth your system has been whispering for months.

This shift is sacred —
and most leaders override it.

But the ones who don’t?
The ones who pause, listen, and follow the internal pull?

They evolve faster than thought alone could ever take them.

This is the shift I’ll be teaching in my Dec 14 Lifestyle Summit talk —
the quiet, profound identity recalibration
that happens when your system moves out of survival
and into sovereignty.


☕ Reinvention Coffee Chat™ — Dec 10 at 9AM PT
If your system is shifting, come.
This is the room that holds it.

🎁 Executive Overwhelm Decoder
If you’re not sure what your body is signaling — this will make it unmistakable.
👉 https://gamma.app/docs/THE-EXECUTIVE-OVERWHELM-DECODER-ih3ix1tle25mt4x

🌟 Dec 14 — Lifestyle Summit - Register here
This is where I’ll reveal the deeper identity shift behind STICK™
and why leaders can’t scale without internal coherence.

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