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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2026 · 20 MIN

#20 - You're Not Stuck. You're Waiting (Avoidance Disguised as Self Awareness)

from The Braver Women® Show · host Leanne Farrell-Jones

This episode is a little different.After experiencing a sudden health scare, Leanne shares the clarity that comes when life interrupts autopilot. Not from fear - but from the realisation that many of us are quietly living in a waiting room. Waiting to feel ready, waiting to feel certain, waiting for permission before we move. Living inside your head instead of Through a familiar story we can all recognise, Leanne explores why insight alone doesn’t create change, how familiar discomfort can become normalised, and why so many capable women stay stuck even when they know exactly what needs to shift.This is not about motivation. This is a clear eyed episode about what needs to happen if you're lesbian or queer woman who is circling around things in your life that are making you truly miserable. Leanne will tell you what conditions create happiness in a single sentence.It’s about recognising avoidance, facing uncertainty differently, and choosing movement in your life, instead of floating about and overthinking. In This Episode• Why thinking, analysing and understanding can start to feel like progress - even when nothing changes• The hidden pattern behind procrastination, overthinking and “waiting to feel ready”• What a recent health scare revealed about the illusion of control• What intolerance for uncertainty keeps you in• The difference between insight and movement - and why presence changes relationships• Why happiness isn’t something you chase, but something else entirely• The moment many women reach breaking point - and how to move before you get therewww.braverwomen.com

This episode is a little different.After experiencing a sudden health scare, Leanne shares the clarity that comes when life interrupts autopilot. Not from fear - but from the realisation that many of us are quietly living in a waiting room. Waiting to feel ready, waiting to feel certain, waiting for permission before we move. Living inside your head instead of Through a familiar story we can all recognise, Leanne explores why insight alone doesn’t create change, how familiar discomfort can become normalised, and why so many capable women stay stuck even when they know exactly what needs to shift.This is not about motivation. This is a clear eyed episode about what needs to happen if you're lesbian or queer woman who is circling around things in your life that are making you truly miserable. Leanne will tell you what conditions create happiness in a single sentence.It’s about recognising avoidance, facing uncertainty differently, and choosing movement in your life, instead of floating about and overthinking. In This Episode• Why thinking, analysing and understanding can start to feel like progress - even when nothing changes• The hidden pattern behind procrastination, overthinking and “waiting to feel ready”• What a recent health scare revealed about the illusion of control• What intolerance for uncertainty keeps you in• The difference between insight and movement - and why presence changes relationships• Why happiness isn’t something you chase, but something else entirely• The moment many women reach breaking point - and how to move before you get therewww.braverwomen.com

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