Ep 19. The Up-Level Reset (Part 3) Courage & Trust

We’re in Week 3 of my 4-part mini series, The Up Level Reset: Four Simple Shifts for a Stronger 2026, created to help you (and me) head into the new year with more clarity, alignment, and self-trust.

Part 1 – The Focus Shift: How where you place your attention shapes your emotional world and relationships.
Part 2 – Upgrade Your Beliefs: Questioning the stories that limit you and choosing thoughts that expand what’s possible.
In this Christmas Eve episode, Part 3 – Courage & Trust, we’re talking about listening to your inner voice, laying down what you were never meant to carry alone, and taking aligned action toward the life that’s calling you in 2026.

In this episode, I talk about:

  • The difference between all the noise of stress, obligation, expectations, and mental load, and the quiet inner voice of intuition that keeps nudging you toward what’s true for you
  • The mental, emotional, and logistical load parents carry (especially moms), and the beliefs underneath it that keep you holding more than you were meant to hold
  • What it looks like to choose courage over comfort in small, everyday ways: telling the truth, simplifying, asking for help, and taking steps toward what you really want
  • How to take aligned action and treat your next steps as a partnership between you, your inner wisdom, and something bigger (life/the Universe/God) as you step into 2026

Journal Prompts for Part 3: Courage & Trust

  1.  Where have I been hearing a quiet inner nudge lately — about rest, change, creativity, boundaries, or next steps?
     What has that voice been trying to tell me?
  2. What mental, emotional, or logistical loads am I carrying right now that feel especially heavy?
     What beliefs sit underneath those loads (for example, “If I don’t hold it all, everything will fall apart”)?
  3. Where in my life am I choosing comfort over growth, even though a part of me knows I’m meant for something more?
     What is one small, courageous step I’m willing to take this week — even if I still feel nervous?
  4. If I trusted that I was supported — by life, by the Universe, by something bigger, and by my own future self — what is one aligned action I would take as I move into 2026?
     What would it look like to say yes to that?

Guided Meditations & Affirmations

Want support with staying consistent on the 5-minute daily affirmation/meditation challenge?

👉 YouTube Playlist (Guided Meditations & Affirmations) 

Let’s Stay Connected

I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway or how your belief reset is going as we close out 2025.

👉 Come say Hi on Instagram:
@jasmyne.guidedpassages

Send me a DM and let me know what story you’re choosing to release and what new story you’re stepping into for 2026.

Want to Learn How We Can Work Together?

If you’re feeling called to go deeper — for yourself, your teen, or your whole family — here are a few ways we can connect beyond the podcast:

 

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Kerrick Gooden

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Kerrick was raised in the Hill Country of Austin, Texas where he studied at the University of Texas. After some travel, he moved to the Rogue Valley of Oregon with a vision to farm and support youth. He completed his Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Cultural Anthropology with Honors in 2004 at Southern Oregon University, and devoted over a decade supporting youth and their families navigate  local and state social service programs. During this time, he and his partner cultivated a food forest at their home and founded Verdant Phoenix as an educational mini-farm in 2016.

Verdant Phoenix Farm became an expression of a way of life for Kerrick. He is interested in the relationships between humans, soil, microbes, plants/trees/shrubs, food, culture, time, and the web of life. As these elements inform his horticultural practice, Kerrick enjoys supporting landscapes, gardens, farms, and their people who are interested in belonging to the land.