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EPISODE · Mar 10, 2026 · 16 MIN

Tiny Act of Freedom #4 How to Stop Being Pushed Around by Your Mind

from The Deep Resilience Project

This week Tiny Act of Freedom #4 explores one of the most powerful shifts we can make on the path of personal and spiritual growth: Inner Leadership.A lot of the time, we're being pushed around by the mind’s ancient survival patterns: worry, self-doubt, reactivity, rumination. These patterns evolved to keep our ancestors alive, but in modern life they often leave us feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and disconnected from our deeper wisdom.In this episode, we explore a framework for how to shift from being dominated by those patterns to living from a deeper inner ground of awareness, clarity, and purpose.You’ll learn:• Inner Leadership: What it means to stop letting survival patterns run your life• A simple framework for understanding how your inner system works• The Four Skills of Inner Leadership• A skill you can use to get a taste of inner leadership right away: The Pivot Towards Purpose: A simple practice to interrupt reactivity and reconnect with your highest intentionWhen awareness takes the lead, something powerful begins to change. We stop being swept away by the mind’s noise and start responding to life with greater calm, courage, and clarity.Try the Pivot Towards Purpose practice this week and see how it transforms the way you meet stress, uncertainty, and everyday challenges.Want to go deeper? Learn more in Melli’s book Deep Resilience:melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-book

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