Episode 18
Taking Back Your Agency: What If Busy Isn't Who You Are?
What if the life you're trying so hard to manage isn't asking you to try harder?
What if some of the things you've accepted as just the way life is… aren't?
We say we're busy.
We say we don't have time.
We say, This is what I have to do.
But do we?
And here's where it gets interesting:
At what point does a pattern become an identity?
This week, Michele and Lisa welcome Deb DermyerLamb into the mashup. Deb has had a relationship with the I Ching since the late 1980s—but she's never experienced it quite like this.
Three women.
Three ways of consulting the I Ching.
One question:
How are our collective perceptions creating the trend of busyness and burnout—and what might shift if we remembered our own agency?
We thought we were talking about being busy.
We weren't.
The conversation opened into something much bigger about the lives we create, the roles we inherit, what we believe we have to carry—and the subtle difference between living by choice and living by default.
There were a few moments when all three of us just stopped.
Because when three different readings begin speaking to one another, you pay attention.
If you've been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, over-responsible—or simply wondering why a life that looks perfectly fine doesn't always feel like you—this one may have found you for a reason.
We won't tell you what the I Ching said.
But we'll leave you with the question that stayed with us:
How much of your life are you actually choosing?
Come mash it up with us.
About Deb DermyerLamb
Deb DermyerLamb is a Feng Shui consultant in the Kansas City, Missouri area and a leader with the International Feng Shui Guild. She brings decades of personal experience with the I Ching, having begun her relationship with it in the late 1980s.
Connect with Deb DermyerLamb through the International Feng Shui Guild
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