The Aga Akrout Podcast

Alignment is one of the most overused words in personal growth, and one of the most misunderstood.In this episode, I speak about how often alignment gets reduced to comfort, regulation, and doing only what feels good in the moment. How that way of relating to alignment can feel soothing, even nurturing and at the same time is keep us stuck.I talk about pressure, responsibility, and the parts of growth that aren’t glamorous or gentle. About why being handed solutions never creates the life we imagine it will. And about what happens when we stop asking to be rescued and start learning the skills required to live what we say we want.This episode is for those who feel the tension between comfort and truth. For those who sense that something is being asked of them even if they’d rather not look at it yet.

This conversation with my soul sister Maria Diaz is very special.We speak about aging as a return —a return to power, to wisdom, to magic.A return to intuition, truth, and deep self-love.It’s a vulnerable, powerful, and honest exchange about what it really means to come home to yourself.To shed old layers.To see who you truly are beneath the noise.To embrace the natural cycles of life and the depth that comes with them.This conversation lives in the field of the Wise Woman — and in the tension between that archetype and a culture that glorifies youth, speed, and surface.This is the first of many conversations I’ll be sharing, each one born from and inspired by A Year of Cyclicity, within the Water & Fire group — a living container where we explore cycles, depth, and becoming.🔗 LinksMaria Diaz — Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yourorgasmiclife/?hl=frMaria Diaz — Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/mariadiazcanadaA Year of Cyclicity — free Facebook container (Water & Fire group)https://www.facebook.com/groups/waterandfireagaakrout

This episode goes deeper into the relationship you have with yourself.I talk about how you show up in your life versus how you show up for others.How you show up as a parent, as someone responsible, committed, reliable.And how that same energy disappears when it comes to you.You’re not your own priority, because you don’t relate to yourself the same way you relate to others.We look at identity.At why you show up no matter what for your children, but not for your dreams, your desires, your life.And how this directly affects self-trust, self-responsibility, and why things feel stuck.I also share where to start rebuilding that relationship — not in theory, but in how you actually show up.

We love to believe we’re all in.Until things get hard.This episode is about lying to yourself.About saying you’re all in — and then pulling back the moment things get hard.About doing things when it’s easy, when circumstances are favourable, and stopping when they’re not.I talk about how we abandon ourselves in difficult moments.How we pause our dreams, our movement, our commitment, and wait for a better time.And then wonder why nothing is happening.Let’s look at how you actually show up when things fall apart and the truth hidden in that.