Seed Health co-founder Ara Katz had to learn that even discernment, taken to an extreme, can quietly become its own dimmer. In this episode, she and Cecily explore how real choice works: not a strategy or a cognitive matrix, but an inner compass that's always recalibrating. On discernment as a survival instinct, the grace of doing nothing, standing in the middle of the tornado instead of fleeing it, and why how you do anything is how you do everything.

Ara's new book, Your Vagina is a Universe, will be released March 9, 2027 and you can follow her on Instagram.

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Host: Cecily Mak
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