Episode 63: When Giving Becomes a Wall Learning to Receive by Taking Time and Retreating With Jennifer Miller
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If you forgot what it feels like to be cared for, this conversation will put that feeling back in your body. Kathy sits down with Jennifer Miller, founder of Taking Time Retreats, to explore how high-achieving women can practice receiving through community, play, and somatic healing. Jennifer explains why intentional care lowers the shoulders, slows the breath, and reboots the nervous system. Together they unpack the difference between escaping life and refueling so you can return more present, joyful, and powerful. Expect real talk on reciprocity, sisterhood, and building experiences that turn joy into embodied memory you can carry home.
In this episode, Kathy and Jennifer discusses:
Receiving as regulation and why intentional care changes physiology
Somatic healing through play, sound baths, dance, and creative flow
Reciprocity versus the brick wall of overgiving and practicing the yes
Retreating to return stronger and designing experiences that fit every nervous system
Sisterhood, community signals, and small rituals that help you hold hard days
Timestamps:
00:03:37 Meet Jennifer Miller and the vision for Taking Time Retreats
00:05:00 Once upon a time connection, sisterhood, and a life led by relationships
00:08:49 From education to mental health to creating spaces for women to be cared for
00:10:51 Why women need women at work and the power of true allyship
00:13:40 Intentional service on the beach and training the yes to receive
00:15:30 What receiving does to the body shoulders drop breathing slows pace softens
00:19:16 Moonlit sound bath the fast formation of community and belonging
00:20:09 Breaking the wall of overgiving and reopening reciprocity
00:22:55 The ethos of planned receiving micro-moments that rewire
00:25:46 Play as somatic healing laughter movement creativity
00:31:03 We are not meant to heal in isolation community as medicine
00:32:00 Retreating versus running away bringing tools home without guilt
00:33:24 Designing for every woman joyful games meditation beach walks stillness
00:36:20 Encoding joy in the body reliving healing instead of reliving trauma
00:39:04 Teachers carry it back everyday signals for stressful rooms
00:41:05 From selfish to self full why investment in self benefits everyone
00:43:35 Coffee and Casual Chaos a six-week on-ramp to community and renewal
00:47:21 Be still to know yourself then expand into service
00:50:00 Neuron-to-neuron connection a living network of sisterhood
00:50:46 Essence in a pill being seen joy as spiritual embodiment existence is enough
00:51:32 Closing gratitude and the invitation to receive
More about with Jennifer Miller
Follow @Jennifer Miller on LinkedIn
Learn more about Taking Time Retreats
Email Jennifer at Jennifermiller@takingtimeretreats.com
I’ve always believed that relationships are the cornerstone of everything. The power of connection between people, experiences, and ourselves is something I cherish deeply. In my life I have four incredible women whose sisterhood/friendship spans over thirty years. When we are together, we don’t need much to shift our energy. We don’t need extravagant plans or overwhelming expectations. All we need is a shared space to connect, to laugh, and to support one another. In that instant, worries disappear, and joy fills the space. This understanding ignited my passion for helping others to experience that same sense of connection.
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