447: Why I’m Pressing Pause (and You Might Want To, Too)
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Reimagining Your Self-Image: The Importance of Taking a Step Back
In our fast-paced world, the concept of taking a pause is often misconstrued as a sign of weakness or procrastination. However, pressing pause can be a powerful tool for realignment and rejuvenation. Taking a break can lead to introspection and new inspiration, rather than signaling defeat.
Tonya Leigh explores the importance of taking a pause to realign and reinvigorate oneself. Tonya shares her personal journey from a state of misalignment to feeling inspired and expansive about the future. She emphasizes the significance of staying committed to oneself during tough times and being curious about one's emotions. By making necessary adjustments and reflecting on experiences, listeners can break through to new levels of self-image.
Tonya also offers signs that indicate it might be time for a pause in your own life. Join her for insights on navigating periods of stagnation and moving toward a more vibrant self.
Talking Points:
01:03 - Recognizing Misalignment and Emotional Abandonment
03:10 - The Need for a Break and Reinvigoration
05:08 - Introduction of the Summer Series
08:53 - Going Live on Instagram
11:10 - Avoidance vs. Reflection
13:54 - Feeling Worse During a Pause
15:50 - Busy but Not Fulfilled
18:50 - Evolution and Life Catching Up
22:40 - Staying Connected During the Summer
23:01 - Downloading the Free Podcast Guide
Quotes:
I need to take a step back, get re-inspired, get out into the world, live more, connect more, read more, enjoy more."
"When you begin to look at your life through this win-win filter and ask yourself better questions, you start to come up with so many creative ideas."
"What if the real risk is ignoring the voice inside of you that's asking for some stillness?"
"If you build your life on decisions to avoid guilt, guess what's gonna happen? You're gonna create a life you do not like."
"I do want to take a step back and ask myself, what's next?"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt the urge to just disappear? Not because you're giving up, but because you're ready |
| 0:06.1 | to realign, to get re-inspired, to just get reinvigorated. Well, in this episode, I'm pressing |
| 0:14.6 | pause on something, not on my mission, but on the noise. It's a moment for me to step back, breathe, and reflect on what's next. And I'm |
| 0:23.6 | sharing it in this episode. And I'm also sharing signs that maybe you need a pause too. So let's dive in. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to the School of Self Image, where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess, |
| 0:38.9 | Master Life Coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, hello, dear friends. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | I am feeling so inspired. I am feeling so expansive and joyful and just excited about the future. And this is coming |
| 1:01.5 | off of a period where I was feeling the opposite of a lot of those things. And I shared that |
| 1:06.7 | with you because when you are in a state of misalignment and it just feels like everything is hard |
| 1:14.7 | and things just aren't working out and you just don't quite know what the issue is, |
| 1:21.3 | it's so easy to just think that this is the way things are is the way things are going to be. But having been |
| 1:28.6 | through so many of those seasons and seeing the pattern now, what I know is that if you stay |
| 1:34.6 | committed to staying with yourself, which means not emotionally abandoning yourself, |
| 1:39.6 | and just staying curious about why you're feeling the way you're feeling and making the necessary |
| 1:45.9 | tweaks and adjustments, you're going to get back to a place that's even better than where your last |
| 1:53.4 | high was. And that's how I'm feeling right now. It's almost like I broke through to this next |
| 1:59.6 | level of my own self-image. And during the time that I've been doing |
| 2:05.2 | a lot of introspection, I've taken a step back and asked myself, what do I want to continue doing? |
| 2:11.9 | What do I want to stop doing? And what do I want to just pause for a moment? just to reassess, realign, and to give myself |
| 2:21.8 | space to breathe and to dream and envision what's next. |
| 2:28.4 | And so last week on the podcast, I told you all that I was going to be making an announcement |
| 2:33.5 | today. |
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