Write Your Story: The Unthinkable Power of Taking a Break
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What do disciplining a child, teaching preschool and taking good care of yourself have in common?
The answer might surprise you.
This week’s episode is inspired by a parenting technique that seemed too simple to actually work. But as soon as I watched this alarmingly unsophisticated tactic have wild success with my four and five year olds—and their friends—I had to ask myself: maybe there’s value in even the adults taking a break?
How long should the break be? Why is this straightforward tool so powerful?
Perhaps it has to do with putting us back in touch with our higher selves, our creative nature, our intuitive voice.
To learn how taking a short break can combat burnout, calm big emotions and get you unstuck (and even how it can bring order to unruly preschoolers) take a listen and let me know what you think.
Where do you need to take a break?
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Pick up the pieces of your life, |
| 0:07.6 | put them back together with the words you write, |
| 0:10.5 | all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find. |
| 0:15.1 | When you write your story, |
| 0:17.5 | you've got the words inside, don't you think it's time |
| 0:20.6 | to let them out and write them down, |
| 0:22.9 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.7 | And write your, write your story, write your story. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm your host. And on today's episode, I have an exciting announcement that I get to share with you. I'm truly so excited about this. I know people say that kind of stuff all the time, but I feel just elated that I'm going to get to share this with you in part because it comes from a really honest place. For me, I've wanted to share this announcement a few different times and a few different ways and just nothing has felt really aligned. And today, I feel like it just opened up for me and I get to tell you what's coming and I get to tell you from a place of true alignment and I feel deeply at peace about it. And I'm just genuinely, genuinely excited to share this information with you. |
| 1:15.0 | So I'm going to share that piece of information with you at the end of the episode because it'll make a lot more sense for you at that point. But before I even get there, what I want to do is |
| 1:21.3 | get into today's topic by just sharing a few updates from my life. Because the topic that I want |
| 1:26.2 | to talk about today is this idea |
| 1:27.9 | of taking a break and how simple that concept can be and yet how complicated it can be and how |
| 1:35.9 | powerful it can be. So in order to make that make any sense to you, again, this is a theme that |
| 1:41.1 | just keeps popping up in my life again and again and again. And I feel like it has been opened up to me in a new kind of way where I'm like, oh my gosh, this is such a simple thing. Like, can it really just be that simple and can it have that powerful of an effect? Yes, it absolutely can. And I've seen that to be true over and over again for myself and for my kids. And I'll share the |
| 2:01.4 | stories with you today and hopefully it will feel as powerful to you as it does to me. But ultimately, |
| 2:06.3 | I hope that this has a takeaway for you that you can implement pretty immediately in your life |
| 2:13.1 | wherever you're feeling, I don't know, burnt out or if you're feeling frustrated or if you're |
| 2:17.4 | feeling like you are disconnected from your intuition or you're disconnected, I don't know, burnt out, or if you're feeling frustrated or if you're feeling |
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