The FitZen Project is a podcast about self-leadership, authenticity, purpose, and personal transformation. Hosted by Rachel Fitzpatrick, each episode explores how to trust yourself, navigate life transitions, set healthy boundaries, overcome self-doubt, and create a life that feels aligned with who you truly are. Through honest conversations, inspiring guest stories, and practical reflections on mindset, energy management, relationships, grief, purpose, and conscious living, you'll discover what happens when you stop outsourcing your happiness and start leading yourself from the inside out. Whether you're rebuilding after loss, questioning what's next, healing old patterns, or stepping into a new chapter, The FitZen Project offers encouragement, perspective, and tools for meaningful change. Alignment is the new hustle. You are your most important project.
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Episode #15
Your Partner Is Upset—Does That Mean Your Decision Was Wrong?
Sep 10, 20266 minS5
You made the decision. You set the boundary. You said no. Then your partner got upset—and suddenly you're explaining, backpedaling, apologizing, or wondering if you were wrong in the first place. This week, we're taking our Microdose of Courage onto the yoga mat. THE SQUEEZE What if the hardest part of keeping a promise to yourself isn't making the decision? It's staying with yourself when someone you love doesn't like it. THE JUICE Today, I'm showing you what your yoga practice can teach you about staying with a decision when someone else's discomfort makes you want to abandon it. Because your relationship has Warrior II moments. Your body gets uncomfortable. Your brain wants out. And your instinct is to do whatever will make that discomfort disappear. But yoga gives us a safe place to practice something different: noticing the discomfort, breathing, creating space, and deciding whether something is actually wrong—or simply uncomfortable. And that's the practice we're taking off the mat. Your partner's disappointment doesn't automatically mean your decision was wrong. YOUR MICRODOSE OF COURAGE Keep one small promise to yourself—even if someone you love doesn't like it. When the discomfort comes: Take a breath. Feel your feet. Unclench your jaw. Notice where you're gripping. Then ask yourself: Do I actually want to change my decision—or am I just trying to make this discomfort go away? And then choose. The goal isn't to never change your mind. It's to stop automatically abandoning yourself just because someone else is unhappy. KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING If this gave you something to work on this week, join my newsletter through the link in the show notes. That's where we take these conversations a little deeper—relationships, boundaries, self-trust, and what it actually looks like to choose yourself when someone you love isn't happy about it. You are your most important project. Lotus and Luna Use promo code Fitzen at checkout for 20% off (sale items not included) Liforme Yoga Mats Use code FitZen at checkout for a discount! RageCreate | Affirmations|Oracles & more There are over 1 million of our affirmation cards floating around the world. Use Code FITZEN 20% of Personal Financial Planning Money mindsets for conscious living. Tabatha Debruyn 9D Breathwork Active Breathwork is a powerful tool for self-exploration and emotional healing. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Sign up for the FitZen Newsletter! Get your FREE Guide: FitZen to Prioritize Join the FitZen Revolution Waitlist! Instagram: thefitzenproject Website: fitzenyoga.com Music provided by: Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home Follow my Blog on Substack! Love the Show? Help me Keep the Magic Going! If The FitZen Project has ever made you laugh, cry, or feel a little more connected—consider supporting the podcast! Your support helps me: Bring on more incredible guests Share powerful stories of healing, humor, and heart Keep the podcast ad-free and community-focused Become a supporter today and help me keep the soul in storytelling. Every dollar, share, and kind word means the world. Thank you for being part of the FitZen journey.
Why You Trust Yourself at Work—but Second-Guess Everything in Your Relationship
Sep 9, 20267 minS5
You keep your commitments at work. You make decisions. You deliver. People trust you. So why does all that confidence seem to disappear when your partner is unhappy with a decision you've made? THE SQUEEZE How many promises have you made to yourself in your relationship that you've broken the second your partner didn't like them? THE JUICE Today, I'm showing you how project managers use commitments to build trust—and what that can teach you about rebuilding trust with yourself. Because when a project repeatedly misses its commitments, eventually it doesn't just lose a deadline. It loses credibility. Your relationship with yourself works the same way. In this Project Management mini, we're taking Jack McFen's insight from this week's long-form conversation— when you stop breaking promises to yourself, you start trusting yourself more —and putting it into practice. We'll look at what happens when you say no and then change it to yes, promise yourself you won't engage in another disrespectful conversation and then engage anyway, or give away the time you said you'd take for yourself because your partner is upset. Your brain is keeping track. It's looking for evidence that your word can be trusted. YOUR MICRODOSE OF COURAGE Make one commitment to yourself small enough that you can actually keep it. Maybe it's: I'm not explaining my no twice. I'm taking the 30 minutes I said I'd take. If this conversation becomes disrespectful, I'm stepping away. Then follow through. Because every time you do, you're giving yourself another piece of evidence that your word can be trusted. And remember: your partner's reaction doesn't automatically cancel your commitment. KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING If this gave you something to work on this week, join my newsletter through the link in the show notes. That's where we take these conversations deeper—relationships, boundaries, self-trust, and what it actually looks like to choose yourself when someone you love isn't happy about it. You are your most important project. Lotus and Luna Use promo code Fitzen at checkout for 20% off (sale items not included) Liforme Yoga Mats Use code FitZen at checkout for a discount! RageCreate | Affirmations|Oracles & more There are over 1 million of our affirmation cards floating around the world. Use Code FITZEN 20% of Personal Financial Planning Money mindsets for conscious living. Tabatha Debruyn 9D Breathwork Active Breathwork is a powerful tool for self-exploration and emotional healing. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Sign up for the FitZen Newsletter! Get your FREE Guide: FitZen to Prioritize Join the FitZen Revolution Waitlist! Instagram: thefitzenproject Website: fitzenyoga.com Music provided by: Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home Follow my Blog on Substack! Love the Show? Help me Keep the Magic Going! If The FitZen Project has ever made you laugh, cry, or feel a little more connected—consider supporting the podcast! Your support helps me: Bring on more incredible guests Share powerful stories of healing, humor, and heart Keep the podcast ad-free and community-focused Become a supporter today and help me keep the soul in storytelling. Every dollar, share, and kind word means the world. Thank you for being part of the FitZen journey.
Can You Let Them Be Mad? The Yoga of Letting Go For Your Relationship
Sep 3, 20265 minS5
What if the thing exhausting you in your relationship isn't just the conflict? What if it's your grip on how the conflict needs to end? I need them to understand me. I need them to stop being mad. I need them to agree. I need this tension to go away. I need us to be okay again so I can finally be okay. That grip is where yoga enters the conversation. In this FitZen yoga mini, we're taking the yogic principle of aparigraha—or non-grasping—and applying it to our relationships. Because sometimes you're not grasping onto the person. You're grasping onto the outcome. And yoga isn't just what happens when your body is in a pose. Sometimes yoga happens in the moment your entire body screams: Fix it. Explain. Text again. Apologize. Make them understand. Make this feeling go away. And instead—you stay. THE 3 JUICE SQUEEZES 1. You may be grasping for an outcome, not a person. Their approval. Their reassurance. Their agreement. For the conversation to end well. For them to stop being disappointed. For everything to feel okay again so you can finally feel okay. Recognizing the grasp is the first part of the practice. 2. Non-grasping doesn't mean you stop caring. Aparigraha isn't about becoming cold, detached, or indifferent. It's learning to loosen your grip on controlling another person's response so you can remain connected to yourself. Their reaction belongs to them. Your integrity belongs to you. 3. The moment you want to fix it IS the yoga. Can you say what's true for you without trying to control what happens after you say it? Can you notice the urge to explain, apologize, text again, or make everything okay—and stay? Take a breath. Feel your feet. Notice what's happening in your body. And remind yourself: I can feel this and still stay with myself. YOUR MICRODOSE OF COURAGE The next time you feel the urge to fix someone's reaction to you, don't immediately act. Give yourself one breath. Feel your feet on the ground. Inhale. Exhale. Then ask: What am I grasping for right now? Their approval? Reassurance? Agreement? An apology? For the tension to disappear? Then remind yourself: I can want that without making my peace dependent on getting it. That's the practice. Not perfect detachment. Not never people-pleasing again. One tiny moment where you notice the grasp and loosen your grip. Because coming home to yourself doesn't always require some massive courageous decision. Sometimes it's one tiny Microdose of Courage where you choose not to abandon yourself just because somebody else is uncomfortable. Alignment is the new hustle because you are your most important project. Support the show Sign up for the FitZen Newsletter! Get your FREE Guide: FitZen to Prioritize Join the FitZen Revolution Waitlist! Instagram: thefitzenproject Website: fitzenyoga.com Music provided by: Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home Follow my Blog on Substack! Love the Show? Help me Keep the Magic Going! If The FitZen Project has ever made you laugh, cry, or feel a little more connected—consider supporting the podcast! Your support helps me: Bring on more incredible guests Share powerful stories of healing, humor, and heart Keep the podcast ad-free and community-focused Become a supporter today and help me keep the soul in storytelling. Every dollar, share, and kind word means the world. Thank you for being part of the FitZen journey.
Doing All the Work in Your Relationship? RACI That Shit.
Sep 2, 20266 minS5
Are you doing all the emotional work in your relationship—and calling it partnership? You remember everything. Initiate the hard conversations. Repair the fights. Manage the tension. Keep track of what needs to happen. Anticipate problems before they become problems. And somehow, when someone else drops the ball, you’re the one figuring out how to pick it back up. No wonder you're exhausted. In the last episode, we asked the uncomfortable question: What would happen to your relationship if you stopped holding it together? Now we're taking that question one step further—and we're bringing in project management. Because when ownership is unclear on a project, work gets missed, duplicated, or quietly picked up by the most competent person in the room. Sound familiar? In this FitZen Project mini, I'm taking one of my favorite project management tools— the RACI matrix —and using it to help you figure out what you're actually responsible for in your relationship…and what was never yours to carry in the first place. THE 3 JUICE SQUEEZES 1. Caring about someone doesn't make you responsible for their work. Their emotions. Their responsibilities. Their relationship with the kids. Their consequences. You can deeply care about someone without automatically assigning yourself ownership of whatever they're struggling with. 2. Somebody else's “R” may have quietly ended up on your project plan. RACI separates who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed. If you're somehow all four for damn near everything in your relationship, that's not shared ownership. That's a really shitty resource allocation plan. 3. Before you set another boundary, get clear on ownership. Ask: What's mine? What's theirs? What actually belongs to both of us? Then ask the harder question: What have I assigned myself ownership of simply because I'm afraid of what will happen if I don't? YOUR MICRODOSE OF COURAGE Pick one thing you've been carrying in your relationship and RACI that shit. Write it down: Who is Responsible? Who is Accountable? Where should you only be Consulted? Where do you simply need to be Informed? Then notice where you've quietly promoted yourself to project manager of somebody else's shit. Don't blow anything up. Don't dramatically announce your resignation. Just notice. And this week, practice handing one piece of ownership back to the person it actually belongs to. Because you are your most important project. But you were never meant to be the project manager of someone else's life. Alignment is the new hustle. Lotus and Luna Use promo code Fitzen at checkout for 20% off (sale items not included) Liforme Yoga Mats Use code FitZen at checkout for a discount! RageCreate | Affirmations|Oracles & more There are over 1 million of our affirmation cards floating around the world. Use Code FITZEN 20% of Personal Financial Planning Money mindsets for conscious living. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Sign up for the FitZen Newsletter! Get your FREE Guide: FitZen to Prioritize Join the FitZen Revolution Waitlist! Instagram: thefitzenproject Website: fitzenyoga.com Music provided by: Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home Follow my Blog on Substack! Love the Show? Help me Keep the Magic Going! If The FitZen Project has ever made you laugh, cry, or feel a little more connected—consider supporting the podcast! Your support helps me: Bring on more incredible guests Share powerful stories of healing, humor, and heart Keep the podcast ad-free and community-focused Become a supporter today and help me keep the soul in storytelling. Every dollar, share, and kind word means the world. Thank you for being part of the FitZen journey.
What Happens to Your Relationship When You Stop Holding It Together?
Sep 1, 202623 minS5
What if the only reason your relationship is “okay” is because you’re working overtime to keep it that way? You bring up the hard conversations. You choose your words carefully. You apologize first. You smooth over the tension. You explain yourself 47 different ways. You anticipate their moods, lower your expectations, and fix problems before they ever have to experience the consequences. And you’re fucking exhausted. But stopping feels terrifying—because what happens to the relationship if you’re no longer the one holding it together? In this episode of The FitZen Project , we’re getting into why high-functioning women can become so damn good at managing their relationships that they don’t realize how much of the relationship they’re actually carrying. THE 3 JUICE SQUEEZES 1. Keeping the peace may have started as protection. Being able to read the room, anticipate someone’s mood, and adjust accordingly can become a powerful skill. But when your ability to feel okay depends on everyone else being okay with you, peace starts looking a whole lot more like survival. 2. Protection eventually becomes management. You may not be trying to control your partner—you may be trying to control how much discomfort you have to experience. If you can get them to stop being angry, understand your point, forgive you, or make the tension disappear, then finally… you can relax. The problem? Now your peace depends on someone else’s emotional state. 3. The real work is learning you can handle what happens when you stop. Holding the boundary isn’t always the hardest part. Sitting in the silence, disappointment, anger, tension, or uncertainty afterward might be. This is where self-trust gets built: I can feel this and still stay with myself. And when you stop doing the work of two people, you finally get honest information about the relationship you’re actually in. YOUR MICRODOSE OF COURAGE Ask yourself: What am I doing to keep the peace in my relationship that I’m absolutely exhausted from doing? And then: What am I afraid might happen if I stopped? You don’t have to fix it today. You don’t have to make a massive decision. Just stop protecting yourself from the information. Because you can’t get clear on the relationship you truly desire while using all your energy trying to keep the relationship you currently have from falling apart. Alignment is the new hustle. And you are your most important project. Lotus and Luna Use promo code Fitzen at checkout for 20% off (sale items not included) Liforme Yoga Mats Use code FitZen at checkout for a discount! RageCreate | Affirmations|Oracles & more There are over 1 million of our affirmation cards floating around the world. Use Code FITZEN 20% of Personal Financial Planning Money mindsets for conscious living. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Sign up for the FitZen Newsletter! Get your FREE Guide: FitZen to Prioritize Join the FitZen Revolution Waitlist! Instagram: thefitzenproject Website: fitzenyoga.com Music provided by: Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home Follow my Blog on Substack! Love the Show? Help me Keep the Magic Going! If The FitZen Project has ever made you laugh, cry, or feel a little more connected—consider supporting the podcast! Your support helps me: Bring on more incredible guests Share powerful stories of healing, humor, and heart Keep the podcast ad-free and community-focused Become a supporter today and help me keep the soul in storytelling. Every dollar, share, and kind word means the world. Thank you for being part of the FitZen journey.
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