When Intent Isn't Enough

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In moments of fear and upheaval, intent is often centered as proof of goodness, while impact is dismissed as inconvenient, exaggerated, or misunderstood.

In this episode of No People Pleasing Zone, EZ explores the difference between intention and impact through a nervous-system and relational lens. 

This episode examines what happens when intent matters more than lived experience. And how power-over becomes normalized when impact is ignored.

This is not an episode about bypassing anger or rawness.
It’s about noticing the patterns that shape how we relate, personally and collectively. And how autonomy collapses when fear becomes the organizing force.

The episode closes by reframing power-with as a stabilizing, embodied alternative, inviting listeners to return to their own bodies as a site of truth, choice, and re-membering.

In This Episode, EZ Explores:

• The difference between intention and impact — and why intent alone is not enough
• How people-pleasing and fawning emerge as nervous-system survival responses
• Autonomy vs. protection in relationships, parenting, and community
• Why fear-centered systems prioritize control over trust
• How gaslighting at scale destabilizes bodies and communities
• Power-with as an embodied, relational alternative to power-over

A Moment to Sit With:

• Where in your life does intent get centered at the expense of your lived experience?
• What might shift if your body’s sense of impact
   was allowed to matter there?

Let it linger.
Let it land.
Let it percolate.