Those moments when your mind won’t stop racing, your energy feels drained, and motivation disappears?
If you’ve been trying to push through, numb with more coffee, or search for complicated fixes…this episode is your permission slip to pause, breathe, and reset your energy in just 5 minutes.
You’ll learn a simple reset ritual that calms overwhelm, clears mental fog, and brings you back into flow—so you can show up with more ease, presence, and excellence in your day.
What You’ll Discover:
Why pushing through resistance often backfires and leads to burnout
A simple 5-minute ritual to reset your energy when you feel off
How to tell the difference between self-sabotage and genuine need for rest
Ideas for creating your own Reset Ritual List (with practices like walking, breathwork, and grounding)
Why energy resets are one of the most productive leadership tools you can use
Share it with someone who's ready to lead with more ease, energetic clarity, and trust in themselves.
Your share might be the spark they need to unlock their next elevated chapter.
I’d love to hear what landed most for you...send me a DM or tag me on Instagram so we can celebrate together.
And as always, let’s elevate together...one intentional day at a time.
Transcripts
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If you ever feel overwhelmed, like you're caught in an overthinking spiral, just those moments where you just feel again like the resistance has come over you and just motivation is gone, go experiment with this. Try it for a month and see how it feels. I find that I always come back into a deeper place of filling my own cup and then, whatever it is that I am being called into doing next, I do with such a different level of excellence, level of presence, and with a lot more ease. Welcome to Elevate Daily, the podcast for those ready to elevate their life, one intentional day at a time. I'm your host, alexia Usgard, here to give you a permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. Join me as we explore modern rituals, self-leadership, the gene keys and the art of elevating your health, wealth, love and leadership. It's time to elevate. Let's dive in Hello, hello and welcome back to Elevate Daily. I am so enthused for today's episode as I'm going to be giving you a dose of elevation, so I want to start experimenting with some shorter episodes that I feel like can be that episode that just gives you that dose of something that will truly give you an opportunity to elevate in your daily life, something you can come back to. One tool, one core tip that I know, because I've experimented with it a lot myself and because I've seen it help others significantly can completely change the game for you. So if you ever feel off, this is for you. Which, honestly, does anyone have moments where they don't feel like? Do some people on this planet not feel off sometimes? What I mean by this is if you ever feel overwhelmed, like you're caught in an overthinking spiral. It's like the middle of the day and you start feeling quite tired and just questioning like what is it all for? Why am I doing all of it? What's the whole point? It's just those moments where you just feel again like the resistance has come over you and just motivation is gone. So what I love in this moment is I most importantly wanna name to you that in this moment, I don't think it is often of highest service to push through. What I like to invite is something different. So what I used to do is, when I felt off, when I used to feel frustrated, I would drink a lot more coffee and I would just basically try to numb myself even more to just get through the experience. And I feel like there's so much conditioning that prides us in doing that, and I honor that. There's a gift in moving through creative resistance, sitting down and staying devoted to something even when you know it'd be easier to scroll on social media.
I'm not talking about those types of situations. I'm talking about like you're operating in your day-to-day life. You are even about to do something that you know is really important or is a very important activity for your company. You're about to go spend time with people you really love, there's beautiful things happening in your world and at the same time, you're still feeling like ugh, like I just feel like something's off, like I'm just not feeling fully in flow. So I invite you to not think in that moment that you have to go fix something.
I know some of the tendencies can be to go try to fix it and think something's wrong, go into hyper researcher mode For those who have a one line in human design speaking most directly to you. I think for some it can be the tendency to just even overwhelm yourself more by like going on chat GBT and asking more questions and like almost over-complicating a strategy or things like that, just instead of stopping and pausing. We think that we need to do more to solve the problem. And what I found is when I have these moments and again, like I want to name there's a lot of discernment in this there becomes really key ways in which it's really essential that you know yourself and you know when you're operating in a feeling of off because your saboteur is coming in and you just like don't want to finish an important thing that actually is of highest service for you to do, versus when you are just feeling off and you can just tell your energy needs a reset. I like to invite you to reset, to take a moment, to come into connection to yourself, to stop doing and to actually take a moment, like what I love to do is I come into myself and I put my hand on my heart and I take a deep breath and I exhale first and then on my next breath, I just invite myself. What would support me with coming home to myself? What would support me with coming home to myself and just really sitting in connection with yourself, slowing down?
So often what happens and I find that this happens more often when you have a lot of you're at a big growth edge, so there's a lot that's new that you're tapping into, that you're being expanded into. It's very natural to have these moments of feeling off because you're at edges of your growth, when there's a lot of external uncertainty happening collectively in your community in different ways happens a lot, right. Or if you're just going through an intense season, right, it happens a lot where it's just more likely you're going to feel off at different times. Just because what I noticed within myself and I've seen with others a lot is because there's naturally going to be these different moments that your nervous system might feel a little bit more dysregulated. What I've seen is in those moments it's actually most important that I take a pause and really connect with my body, with my being, with my energy, to see what it is that would actually be supportive for me, to allow this energy to move, to be processed, to be felt, to resource myself, to notice what it is I'm needing, to be felt, to resource myself, to notice what it is I'm needing, and this is especially important if you're someone who can name that. Knowing your own needs is more of a struggle. I think this is especially important for someone like you. If you relate to that, you might do that and that's what gives you just deep clarity.
What I also recommend for those who really like something visual, someone who really likes to write out a list, is to write out a list of what I call your reset rituals, and what I mean by this is to have small, small rituals that support you with again coming back and resourcing yourself. So some examples that I have on my reset rituals list are take a nap, go for a walk, go put my feet outside on grass, go enjoy five minutes of sunshine if that's available. Right, it's things that I know. Put on a song and dance out to a song to move my body. Sometimes it's doing a visualization, sometimes it's breathing, like I just say you know what, I'm just going to put a timer and I'm going to spend five minutes just breathing, and what I love about this is if you're someone who can find that sometimes it's harder for you to just put your hand on your heart, connect and immediately get an answer.
Having that reset ritual list that you've already named, that you already know, supports you, like each of those items on there deeply support you. I find it really helps you when you're in one of those moments where oftentimes we can have a bit of decision fatigue and not know what we need or not know what we want. You can go on that list, look at it, you can even close your eyes and just randomly point to one if that's what's of highest service for you in that day, but to really then have something that holds you, a structure that holds you to support you in those moments. And what I have seen over and over again is when I stop trying to effort and push through these moments and instead resource myself, give to myself and trust these rituals, I find that I always come back into a deeper place of filling my own cup, filling up my own battery tank, and then, whatever it is that I am being called into doing next, I do with such a different level of excellence, such a different level of presence and with a lot more just ease in the experience. So I'd love to know how this lands for you.
I'd love to invite you to create your reset ritual list and, like I said, just put at least five things. I mean you might be someone who has 10 different options. Print it out, make it beautiful, add some pictures like. Make it your own, put it somewhere that you can really look at on a regular basis and really notice that again whenever you hit these moments where you're just lacking the motivation, feeling off, feeling like you're not really working in highest service with your energy, to go back to that list and to savor one of those rituals, knowing it is one of the greatest, most productive things you can do, and to watch if you're someone who's questioning it like but Lex, I'm so used to efforting my way through, I'm so good at being tough and just moving through. I just love to give this to you as an experiment. Go, experiment with this, try it for a month and see how it feels. And notice if you feel any difference in how you feel when you try to push through things versus when you give yourself the spaciousness to reset your energy and enjoy these rituals. And, yeah, I would love to know how this lands what you add to your reset rituals list. And, yeah, if you feel called to share with me through a DM on Instagram or send me an email, I would love to hear how this episode resonates, if you're enjoying, if you enjoyed this format of just a quick elevation dose for you for today. And, yeah, until next time I hope you elevate your life one intentional day at a time. Thank you for being you and thank you for being here with me.
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