At some point, self-improvement stopped feeling empowering and started feeling exhausting.

There’s always another goal, another habit, another thing you feel like you should be fixing about yourself. Eat better, do more, stay disciplined, be more productive, keep improving.

And after a while, it becomes hard to breathe inside your own life.

In this episode, Ashley talks about the pressure of constantly trying to become a “better” version of yourself and why real growth also requires rest, peace, and learning that you are already worthy while you’re still becoming.