🌍 WHAT'S YOUR NATURAL RESPONSE STYLE?

First day with all three kiddos back in school. 🍎

Grateful to report my fave 4yo had some understandable butterflies but no tears at her last first day of preschool. 🎉

(Though I'm holding my breath for day two, when reality tends to set in. 😛)

August has been a beautiful blur over here.

A week with our big extended family in the hot Texas Hill Country, a restorative reset and creative retreat over the rainbow with friends, then right back into the three-kids, three-schools rhythm I've grown to love.

Not sure if you saw my last email, but back in July I shared an idea to help us map out our own #onherterms plans (for emergency / natural disaster response mode).

Didn't have the capacity to run it live last month, but I did record my starter notes in podcast form while on the Big Island so we can get the conversation going.

Consider it the precursor to the respond on her terms workshop — a mini audio field guide you can revisit anytime life/world events stir the “how do I actually help?” question.

Because when big stuff happens...

We want to help.

We want to respond.

Aaand because life is lifing, we may also feel overwhelmed, frozen, or tapped the F out

Every one of us has a natural response style.

The key is naming it, owning it, and practicing it in ways that feel steady, sustainable, and actually meaningful. The #onherterms way.

That’s what I'm hoping to help you do with this episode.

🌎 defining your role in hard times [OHT 093]

how you can respond (powerfully + sustainably) without burning out or checking out.

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What you'll hear when you tune in:

⚡️ How events like this can be not just devastating, but catalytic

🌱 How to ditch disaster-response perfectionism + find your natural response style

👓 Two key lenses for response: when you show up + how you show up

💞 What to do if you’d like help creating your personal response plan

In short: this ep is about creating an inner scaffolding that helps you feel both steady and generous when things get hard.

I hope it helps you find a way to respond that feels doable, meaningful, and yours.

Sending lots of love and aloha from here. 💞

P.S. Took a pic* of the view I had while recording in hopes that the grounded, calming energy would be infused in the reflections I bottled up for us.

*I actually took dozens of pics, at all times of day and all types of weather, because I couldn't get over the view and never want to. Grateful for every chance I get to return to Hawaii.

Reply ALOHA if you'd like more Big Island inspiration cooties and I'll happily share 🌺

Hi 👋 I'm Nikki (Elledge Brown).

Writer, podcaster, and creative advisor for brilliant women who love their work, their people, and their alone time.

As a professional overthinker who believes strongly in INTEGRITY > BALANCE, it's my nerdy pleasure to create and share tools, questions, and frameworks that make it easier to feel good about how we’re showing up — on paper and in practice.

Around here, living like a whole human is the way.

That's what we call On Her Terms® living.