Stop Letting Life Drag You Around & Start Creating It

Inside Nat's Notebook - Real Reflections for Real Change

Hey You -

Ever feel like life is just happening to you? Like you’re being dragged through your days, reacting to stress, obligations and other people’s demands, while your own needs get lost in the chaos?

Maybe you’ve tried “thinking positive” or “going with the flow,” but somehow, it still feels like you’re running on autopilot.

Here’s the hard truth: The problem isn’t your circumstances, it’s how you’re seeing them.

The secret to a life that feels lighter, easier and more fulfilling isn’t about working harder, forcing happy thoughts or controlling every outcome. It’s about mastering two things:

Perspective: The lens through which you see life.

Conscious Choice: Acting with awareness instead of reaction.

When you shift your perspective and start making conscious choices, you stop feeling like life is dragging you along for the ride. Instead, you start creating it on your own terms.

When Life Feels Like It’s Dragging You

I used to believe that if I just worked hard enough, planned ahead or thought positively enough, I could get ahead of life. That I could outrun the stress.

You guessed it, it didn’t work!

No matter how many mindset tricks I tried, I always ended up back in the same cycle, exhausted, stretched too thin and wondering why I still felt stuck.

Until one day, I realised, it wasn’t my circumstances holding me back. It was how I was seeing them. That realisation hit me in a moment so small I almost missed it.

I was standing in my kitchen, staring into the fridge, frustrated at something completely unrelated to food, when I caught myself rushing to make a decision I wasn’t even present for.

And something in me paused.

For the first time in what felt like possibly ever, I noticed my reaction instead of just living inside it.

That pause? 

That shift in perspective? It changed everything.

Because the truth is:

"Most of us aren’t choosing how we experience life. We’re just reacting to it." - Nat

The Shift That Changes Everything

Once I started paying attention, I saw it everywhere:

The way I rushed through decisions, barely aware of how I was making them.The way my mood dictated my reality, same circumstances, different days, completely different experiences.

The way I blamed life for how I felt instead of realising I had a say in it.

So I started experimenting.

🧡 What happens when I pause before reacting?

🧡 What happens when I question the way I see a situation?

🧡 What happens when I let my body tell me what it needs, instead of my overthinking brain?

And that’s when I started experiencing something unexpected, EASE. It kept showing up everywhere and not because life stopped throwing curveballs, but because I wasn’t being dragged by them anymore.

Meditation in Motion: Seeing Life Differently in Real Time

You see, this isn’t about sitting in silence for hours (though if that’s your thing, go for it) It’s about learning to shift your perspective in real-time, catching yourself in those tiny moments. You know those knee-jerk reactions, the automatic thoughts, the way you assume things have to be, and realising you have more power than you think.

For me, it started with listening to my body, and noticing what it was trying to tell me. When I caught myself assuming the worst, I would check to see what other perspective I could take. Instead of forcing myself to “push through,” I asked, what if I chose differently?

And here’s what I found:

Life didn’t change. But my experience of it did.

It felt lighter, easier and less exhausting, not because I had “fixed” everything, but because I stopped fighting against reality and started working with it.

And that? That’s where the real shift happens.

#RebelMoment 

Try it for yourself this week.

🧡 Pause.

🧡 Question.

🧡 Choose.

🧡 Expand your perspective.

🧡 Decide how you want to experience life and live that way.

Because life isn’t just happening to you.

It’s responding to you.

The only question is, what will you choose next?

The real rebellion? Choosing to pause, reset, and listen.

✨ You’ve got this. ✨

Burnout isn’t a failure, it’s a signal. Let it guide you to Reset, Realign + Rise.

Life feels lighter when your nervous system is your ally.

Stay Blessed

LoveLove

Nat x

🧡 Your Burnout Bestie 🧡

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About Nat

Nat Creasy, aka Your Burnout Bestie, doesn’t sugarcoat the hustle, she calls it out for what it is: an exhausting lie that’s making us all sick.

As a Nervous System Mentor, Nat teaches people how to break free from overthinking, exhaustion, and survival mode, helping them operate from a place of power, flow and clarity.

She gets it. After burning out so hard it left her bedridden for 18 months, Nat learned the hard way that pushing through isn’t the answer. 

The real win? Learning how to work with your nervous system, not against it.

Now, she teaches people how to Reset, Realign + Rise trading burnout for ease, exhaustion for clarity, and hustle for a life that actually feels good.

Tired of running on empty? It’s time to reclaim your energy.

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