In this threshold episode of The Dark Side of Verity, Verity Jo Coonan invites you to slow down, breathe, and meet yourself in stillness.

Inspired by the Lighthouse Principle, this is not a “how-to” conversation it’s an embodied reflection on leadership, boundaries, nervous system authority, and what happens when you stop chasing connection and start anchoring into yourself.

Verity explores how over-explaining, over-giving, and over-availability often stem from people-pleasing and trauma responses and how self-abandonment can quietly lead to resentment, burnout, and disconnection from your own body. Through breath, lived experience, and grounded insight, she shares why safety comes from consistency, not urgency, and why the most magnetic leaders don’t move, they hold.

This episode is for you if:

• You feel exhausted from always being available to others

• You’re learning to set boundaries without guilt or aggression

• You’re stepping into leadership, in life, relationships, or facilitation

• You’re ready to lead from regulation, not rescue

If something softened in your body while listening, that’s your nervous system recognising safety.

You don’t need to chase.
You don’t need to explain.
You don’t need to abandon yourself.

You just need to decide if you’re ready to be the lighthouse.

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