#41 Let Go of Energy Drains

Have you ever felt drained even when you've done nothing? What if the things stealing your energy aren’t loud at all, but subtle—polite, familiar, almost reasonable?  Let's talk about where your energy is going and how to get it back. If you’ve felt the “people hangover,” the creeping anxiety, or the nagging sense you’re carrying more than your share, this conversation offers a path back to clarity, authenticity, and steady self-trust take a wider look at how to spot drains across your life and how to build the muscle of letting go without losing your heart.
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Welcome to Just Count Me In, a podcast designed to help you break free from your limitations and step into the life that you actually were meant to live. I'm Sari Stone and I'm a holistic coach with a background in education. For the past six years, I've been guiding people to transform their lives from the inside out. My journey, to be honest with you, was not always clear. For years, I actually felt like I was living someone else's life, checking all the right boxes, but never feeling quite truly fulfilled. That all changed when I experienced a few miracles, met some incredible teachers, and had a major wake-up call that forced me to shift my entire perspective. Wayne Dyer once said, when you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at change, and that is exactly what this podcast is about: helping you see your life in a new way so that you can start living with authenticity, purpose, and passion. Each week, I'm going to bring you episodes filled with insights, practical strategies, and inspiring interviews to help you uncover what truly lights you up and identify what's been holding you back. Eventually, this is going to ignite your motivation and create real change. Are you ready to step into the life you were meant to live? Then just count me in. Hit subscribe and join me on this journey. If this episode resonates, please share it with a friend who needs a little inspiration today. Let's do this together. So this week, three different people left situations that were draining for them that have been going on for a couple months, and it was interesting because they all started a couple months ago and they all ended this week, and they're three very separate people. Two of them were students in college that I'm coaching, and they were in a in classes, and one in particular, the professor, just was not a good mix for them, and a lot of people actually are dropping the class. But either way, it wasn't right for her. She was worried about disappointing her parents, about just not sticking with something she's new at college, she didn't want to look like a quitter. All these things are valid. My other friend is starting her dream career, another career, because she already has a career as a nurse and she's a wife and a mom, and she just what's really making her come alive inside is managing people's vacation properties. And almost immediately she got clients, and that was great. And then she got this client that was not so great. The person constantly asked her to overextend herself, and she just felt like yucky inside after the transactions. And it caused me to ask this question like, how many things do we hold on to just because we think we should or we're afraid of disappointing somebody? Well, we get up and it's still dark out, so I was sitting in the morning meditating, and I looked and the moon was still out, and I thought, man, of course, this is almost a full moon. And the full moon asks us to let go of things, it illuminates things for us, it shines a light on what's going on. And I thought maybe this is the time to take a look at is it like a need to fix other people? Is it a worry about disappointing people? Am I worried about overgiving or worrying or replaying old stories? Or am I holding space for people who don't hold space for me? So today in this episode, we're going to shine a light on the energy that drains you a little bit and dims your glow and reclaim your power from within you to align with the energy that's coming. So it is an illumination, it doesn't create light, the moon reflects it. And in this same way, this phase reflects your truth. What's working, what's heavy, what's overdue for release. Science even supports a reflective pause. Your brain's default mode network becomes more active during introspection, and that invites you to connect the dots between your emotion, your behavior, and your energy. So you can just pause a moment and ask yourself what's been quietly taking more from me than it gives. That's your starting points. Energy drinks can be sneaky. They can be emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual. If it's food, it's easy because it shows up as indigestion, right? Which is great because it's like, okay, shouldn't do that, or it tastes good in the mouth, doesn't feel good in the body after. Or if it's people and you always realize that you feel drained after being around certain people, it's like a people hangover, I call it. Okay, that's not they're not really the right vibration for me at this point in my life. Or if it's a job and you've got to numb yourself to get away from the effects of the job every day, you know, those are pretty obvious. Those are easy teachers. Then there's the quieter ones, the more subtle ones. Chronic fatigue after certain interactions is a sign. Anxiety that spikes without having any reason is often a sign of something that's draining your energy. And then anytime I notice myself saying, I have to fix this, or if I stop, everything's going to fall apart. Those are all places that put up a little red flag for me, places that I need to look at and reassess. So from a neuroscience lens, these drains actually are keeping your nervous system in sympathetic overdrive. Your brain is always scanning for danger or disapproval. From a spiritual lens, you're kind of broadcasting the frequency of depletion rather than alignment. So I'm going to say that again. From a spiritual lens, you are broadcasting, you're tuning into the channel of being depleted rather than feeling aligned. Bruce Lipton reminds us that your cells are literally eavesdropping on your thoughts. They are responding to the vibration of your stress or your peace even before you form the thought. And Esther Hicks would say, you can't hold someone else's alignment for them. Your job is just to stay tuned to your own source connection. I know last week we talked about empowering love versus enabling love, and this is actually the next layer of that. Empowering love holds space without carrying weight or expecting anything. Enabling love tries to rescue, control, or fix, and in the process it loses its flow and its purity. The full moon says you don't need to carry their healing to be loving. So releasing that energy drain does not mean you stop loving or caring. It does mean that you start trusting. You trust others to rise when it's their time. You trust yourself when a situation is wrong for you, and you trust the divine timing of growth. So there are ways to reclaim your energy. And the first step is always awareness, and you can name the drains. Think about anything in the area. I wrote down on several set, I just folded a piece of paper and got like six, six squares, and just because that's the way I think. And I wrote down people, habits, thoughts, roles, foods, you know, that kind of thing. I wrote categories, even some clothes. Like I just feel better in certain clothes than in others, and then I wrote my intention for that, how I want to feel. And I reconnected. I realized what I needed to let go of. And then I took a moment and refocused on my own energy flow. I move my body, I breathe deeply, I meditate under the moonlight. So visualize just calling all of your scattered energy back home. Now there is a journal guide and an affirmation guide and reflection prompts. And I'm going to just give you the reflection prompts and you can click to download the guide for the rest of it. So what situations, habits, or relationships have been draining my energy? Which environments or routines in my life feel heavier forced? How does my body actually feel after certain foods, music, or online content? What would it look like for me to pivot towards what I really want to do? What I would do if I couldn't fail. Honor the wisdom of your own energy. Everything that drains you actually teaches you where to set boundaries, and you can ask for help with those boundaries. You can become free of what no longer feeds your light. And trust that when you let go of these other things, what you let into your life is going to energize and expand you. I want to invite in spaces that feel peaceful and happy. And I want to only invite in those beliefs that empower my growth and keep me in contact with love. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you like this episode, please let me know. Stop by at social media on Instagram or my Facebook page, just count me in and please leave a comment. If there's anybody that you think could benefit from this episode, please forward it to them. And I look forward to seeing you next time. We're all in this together.