Podcast Episode #20 - Tired of Being Strong? How to Finally Let Yourself Rest
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[00:00:00] Hello, and welcome back to yet another inspirational podcast episode brought to you by yours truly, Carina from Healery. I'm your truth speaker, truth seeker, truth keeper, and I am so glad that you're here with me today Hey, it's Carina, and welcome back to Soul Medicine. If you've ever found yourself holding it all together while quietly falling apart, this one's for you.
For the woman who keeps showing up, keeps being strong, keeps saying, "I'm [00:01:00] fine," when inside she's anything but. By the end of this episode, you'll understand why the version of strength the world rewards can become your biggest cage, and how reclaiming your softness might just be the most powerful act of courage you ever take.
We'll talk about what strength reversed in the tarot really means, how it shows up when your nervous system is tired of performing, and why letting yourself rest is not weakness, it's wisdom. Stay with me, because in a moment, I'm gonna share the truth about what happens when even your purpose starts to feel heavy.
There's a point every strong woman reaches, the point where even the smallest things, the dishes, the messages, the [00:02:00] expectations, feel like too much, and still you smile. You push through. You tell yourself, "I'll rest after this next thing." Until that next thing becomes your whole life. You start to forget who you are underneath the armor.
You start to measure your worth by how well you hold it all together, and the silence between the breaths, that's where the ache starts whispering, "I can't keep doing this." If you're there right now, you're not weak. You're just tired of performing strength. I've been thinking a lot about this card lately, Strength Reversed in the tarot, because it's the mirror I didn't wanna look into.[00:03:00]
It's been almost a year of showing up, creating, pouring my heart into this work, and some days it feels like shouting into the void. People tell me the podcast has helped them, that my words have changed their life, and I'm truly grateful for that. But gratitude doesn't cover the bills. And that's the part no one talks about, the quiet exhaustion of trying to hold your purpose, your business, and your faith all at once.
There's a moment where even passion starts to ache, where staying strong starts to sound a lot like self-abandonment, and that's when the Strength card turns itself upside down, not as punishment, but as a reminder. Because Spirit isn't asking me to push [00:04:00] harder. She's asking me to soften, to trust that the pause, the questioning, the uncertainty, they're not signs of weakness.
They're signs of recalibration. Strength Reversed isn't about losing power. It's about remembering where your real power actually lives: in gentleness, in honesty, in the courage to admit that you're tired of pretending it's all okay. So I want you to notice what happens in your body when I say this You don't have to be strong today
Did you feel that? Does your chest tighten? Do your shoulders lift like they're waiting for permission to drop? [00:05:00] That contraction is, is the story your nervous system's been carrying, the one that says softness is dangerous. But what if gentleness isn't the opposite of strength? What if it's what gives your strength direction?
Because the more we grip, the more life resists, and the moment we soften, we remember we were never meant to control everything. We were meant to trust what moves through us. The Strength card in its upright position is the woman with her hand on the lion's mane. Power through presence. Reversed, she's being asked to stop taming the wild within her and start listening to it.
You don't need to prove your worth through what you endure. Your worth was [00:06:00] never in question. Real strength is not the volume of what we carry. It's the grace with which we set it down. It's the quiet knowing that surrender doesn't mean collapse, it means trust, and trust is the frequency where spirit meets you halfway This is the energy we'll be exploring inside the Soul Medicine Circle, the Temple of Becoming, this month.
Strength reversed. It's about relearning what strength looks like when the striving stops. It's about finding safety in your own softness again and recognizing that surrender isn't giving up, it's coming home. Because the women who gather in this space aren't here to perform resilience anymore. We're here to redefine it, [00:07:00] to let it look like rest, boundaries, tears, laughter, or silence.
Whatever your body needs to feel safe again, that's what true strength is asking for The Soul Medicine Circle, The Temple of Becoming, will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, the 26th of November from 7:00 till 8:00 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time. You can find more details and the link to purchase your seat in the show notes.
Spaces are limited to keep the energy intimate, so if your soul is craving this exhale, come join us. Let's breathe together again. And so let's take a breath together now. Place [00:08:00] one hand over your heart, one over your solar plexus, that sacred space just above your navel where your will lives I just want you to breathe in slowly through your nose and exhale through your mouth and whisper with me, "I honor the strength it takes to rest."
I am powerful in my gentleness Softness is not my weakness. It is my wisdom
And just feel that settle into your cells Notice how it feels, [00:09:00] how your body responds
That's the recalibration of strength reversed. Power reclaimed through peace. You are not falling apart. You are falling back into yourself, and just because it was doesn't mean it will be. When you're ready to sit in the discomfort, to stop performing, to start receiving, I'll be here ready and waiting.
Until next time, lead with your truth, not your fear. If your soul's been craving that exhale, there are only a few spots left in this month's Soul Medicine Circle. You'll find the link in the show notes. Come join us before the temple closes. With love, [00:10:00] Carina.