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🌿BLOG SERIES: Learning to Say No Without Losing Myself

Part III : Values, Alignment, and the Cost of People-Pleasing Learning to say yes to myself In Part I , I explored the quiet resentment that builds when we chronically say yes at the expense of ourselves. In Part II , I named what it actually feels like to practice no — the guilt, fear, and nervous system discomfort that arise when we begin to interrupt old survival patterns. Part III is about what comes next. Because once you start saying no, a deeper question emerges: Wha

Lexi Henderson

Jan 133 min read

🌿BLOG SERIES: Learning to Say No Without Losing Myself

Part II: Painting My Life With Intention - Boundaries Before Burnout Burnout, the body, and the window of tolerance In Part I: The Quiet Resentment Beneath My Yes , we explored how chronic over-extending, people-pleasing, and reflexively saying “yes” can quietly lead to burnout, resentment, and disconnection—from ourselves and from the work and relationships we once cared deeply about. Part II invites us inward. Here, we turn our attention to the lived experience of saying

Lexi Henderson

Jan 124 min read

🌿BLOG SERIES: Learning to Say No Without Losing Myself

Part I: The Quiet Resentment Beneath My Yes For women who learned love meant self-sacrifice For a long time, I thought saying yes was just who I was. Yes meant I was kind. Yes meant I was loving. Yes meant I was safe—wanted, included, needed. I was the helper. The empath. The reliable one. As women—especially sensitive, creative, emotionally attuned women—we’re often praised for being accommodating. Available. Easy to work with. I internalized that early on, believing that

Lexi Henderson

Jan 124 min read

Manifesting in the Season of the Witch

(And why less than two months left in the year are golden for laying foundations) As we sink deeper into October — the season of transformation, intuition, and magic — and inch closer toward year’s end, I’m feeling more than ever that now is sacred. There’s less than two months left in the year to lay the energetic, emotional, and spiritual foundations for what you’ll unfold in the next one. So, in today’s post, I wanted to talk about something that feels perfectly aligned

Lexi Henderson

Oct 17, 20256 min read