Nikita WilliamsFounder & Principal — Crafted to Thrive LLC, Crafted To Thrive LLC · Top 2.5% Podcast Host of Business With Chronic Illness | Business Coach for Creatively Driven, & Capacity-Aware Entrepreneurs & CEOs who want to increase profit, impact, & rest. | Chronic Illness Advo

Losing Your Voice Is Your Body's Warning #business #selfcare #chronicallyill

31 Aug 2025 · 2 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker explains how self‑criticism, second‑guessing, and internal doubting drain personal energy, preventing it from being directed toward self‑care. They encourage listeners to pause and ask themselves what they truly need—whether it’s silence, rest, a salt bath, or other simple restorative actions—without over‑analyzing those needs. The speaker shares a concrete anecdote from a hybrid networking group where three attendees praised their grounded, calming presence, highlighting how authentic, peaceful engagement can be unexpectedly valuable in professional settings. The overall message urges trusting one’s own style and bodily signals, rather than trying to emulate others, as a pathway to sustained energy and more powerful performance.

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wherever you're, you're holding back, wherever you are, again, that second-guessing, that doubting, that criticizing yourself, that is all siphoning energy away from where you could be pouring it into yourself. Particularly when it comes to asking, what is it you need from me? Sometimes it might just be silence, rest, salt bath. You don't have to question it. Yeah, because that's, that's the, the piece that then is without you even probably knowing that will then let some visibility event later that week give you that much more energy, be able to show up more powerfully. I had, at a talk I gave to a networking group that I'm part of, it's a hybrid networking group, but we have an in-person meeting, and No less than like 3 people after, after I got done, 3 people came up to me. Oh, I just really appreciate your grounded, calming presence. I said, oh, thank you. That's, that's lovely. You know, I'm just doing me, being in the zone. And, and they were, they were both appreciative, but also one woman said, well, that was very needed. I didn't know that. I didn't, I didn't know that the, the room had been jovial and light and we'd been doing all sorts of sharing and activity things beforehand. So this is where trusting yourself even more for how you're meant to show up. You don't have to show up like me if that's, if it's, you know, in this grounded, peaceful space.