Swim to the Other Side: Resistance, Scars & Investing in Yourself

🎙️ Podcast Title: Three Sisters
📌 Episode Title: Swim to the Other Side: Resistance, Scars & Investing in Yourself

📄 Episode Summary:
In this vulnerable, fire-filled episode, Victoria and Serena explore the full-body stretch that comes with investing in yourself—whether financially, emotionally, or spiritually. They unpack the resistance that always surfaces: the fear, the stories, the somatic scars, and the gripping at the edge of transformation.

Through personal stories of swimming lessons, community witnessing, and the wounds we carry from childhood and culture, they illuminate the emotional cost of staying small—and the radical rewards of moving through resistance with presence and power.

This is an episode about crossing thresholds. It’s about choosing self-leadership, honoring your stretch, and becoming the version of you waiting on the other side.

🌟 Key Themes & Takeaways
💸 Resistance Is Part of the Investment
Fear doesn’t mean no—it means initiation. All resistance is information.

🧠 Scars Are Stories That Need Witnessing
When you meet them fully—in your body and in community—they shift.

🌀 Stretch Before You Break
Create capacity by playing at your edge, not ignoring it.

👁️ Gaze Up, Not Down
The long-term version of you—wise, rooted, expressed—is asking you to keep going.

🫂 Healing Requires Being Seen
You can’t transform alone. Real witnessing collapses time and catalyzes change.

🔥 Every No Has a Cost
Indecision costs just as much as action—often more. What do you choose?

💬 Notable Quotes
Serena: “All the resistance that comes up is the stuff you want to bring into the work.”
Victoria: “There’s a cost to not swimming to the other side of the pool.”
Serena: “Scars can dissolve in an instant when they’re met with precision.”
Victoria: “This isn’t punishment. It’s the beautiful design of transformation.”

⏰ Chapters & Timestamps
[00:00 – 02:27 ] No pants, lemon water & how we start the day
[02:28 – 05:53 ] Biting into transformation at your own pace
[05:54 – 11:18 ] Scars, resistance & the nervous system's truth
[11:19 – 16:10 ] Stretch, surrender & shifting into the long game
[16:11 – 21:10 ] The lie of being “othered” & how we all carry it
[21:11 – 26:28 ] Community as magic, collapse, and time-bending
[26:29 – 31:06 ] Stories that melt in the presence of witnessing
[31:07 – 36:12 ] The fear of being seen & asking for support
[36:13 – 42:59 ] Childhood scars, masculine rupture & safe coaching
[43:00 – 48:08 ] Birthing the new you & letting the old self go
[48:09 – 53:30 ] Holding your long-term vision through initiation
[53:31 – 57:27 ] Taking self-portraits in the trenches
[57:28 – 1:00:28 ] Prayers for courage, healthy delusion & devotion

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