We Can Do Hard Things
What Your Sign Says About How You Love: Chani Nicholas (Best Of)
Sun, 16 Feb 2025
1. How to recognize when you’re dysregulated – so you can slow down and help yourself. 2. The beauty and wisdom in being judgmental, and how that saved Chani’s life. 3. The liberating idea that “The things that happened to me weren’t about me.” 4. How to set and trust boundaries in order to finally rest. About Chani: Chani Nicholas is a Los Angeles-based New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance. She has been a counseling astrologer for more than 20 years, guiding her community of over 1 million monthly readers to discover and live out their life’s purpose through understanding their birth chart. Chani runs her company with her wife and business partner, Sonya Passi. Together they launched the CHANI app, which offers a personalized, daily understanding of their birth chart. TW: @chaninicholas IG: @chaninicholas To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the podcast 'We Can Do Hard Things' about?
Hello world. World. World.
The whole world.
Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. And the stars. Today, my yoga instructor said this. She said we were in Shavasanan, which is like this nap you take at the end of yoga, which is the best part of yoga. Did you say Shavasanan? Listen, I don't care. All right. It's just a long word and it's a nap. I think she said Shavasanan.
And you take a nap and that's what they should do the whole time and everyone would go to yoga, but it's just at the end. And my instructor said, We can do hard things, but we don't have to be hard while we do them. Oh, look at that.
Oh, she got, she one-upped you.
I know. So anyway, today's super, super exciting. Here's the deal. We at this podcast are astrologically curious. Yes, we are. We would call ourselves astrologically curious. We also are all sort of, well, maybe you're not skeptical. You're not a skeptic, Abby. I would say sister and I, everything. Yeah.
Yeah. I believe in most things.
Yeah. She believes in most things she just said. Okay. So there you have it. Like if you believe in it. Including ghosts. Yeah. All the things. I believe in everything, a teeny bit and nothing all the way. That's my rule after coming from some fundamentalist shit in my life. Also, when it comes to astrology, I've always had this like teeny, teeny bias that it's woo-woo and not gritty.
It's like all about self-discovery and not about the world. Like it's all about self and not others. Then all of these people in my life started saying, I hear that you must look in to this woman, Chani Nicholas. Yes. She's going to fix your problem with astrology. So we have Chani today. I am so excited about this day.
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Chapter 2: How did Chani Nicholas become interested in astrology?
We can't only be trying to fight the stuff out in the world that we need to fight without doing inner work, but we cannot do the inner work without connecting it to some other thing. Yes.
So that's always where I've written from and done my work from is like, okay, let's understand how to hold our pain and sorrow and suffering, contextualize it, understand our life purpose through the blueprint of our chart. Then let's let that move us into action. That gift is then supposed to go out into the world. And that is how we are meant to be of service, I believe.
And I believe our chart, our astrology chart, if it resonates with you, there's a lot of other things you can do besides astrology, obviously, but it can give us the shortcut to that. Oh, this is where I can take action. This is where I can be of service. This is how I can... Good. Go.
I love it. You said you're interested in healing, but you are really interested in in systems change. And I love that because some people might look at an astrologer and be like, what the hell does system change have to do with astrology?
But anyone who is in a healing role or a quote unquote, you know, self-helpy industry, like anyone that could be looked at as like the healing industrial complex, if you're not If you're not looking to the systems change, if you're focused on just the healing, you're perpetuating the demand for healing, which is driven by the system that wounds to begin with.
So all of the people like you are so important because you're connecting those dots. You're saying, I'm dealing in your healing and I'm also going upstream and trying to deal with how you got wounded in the first place. Do you feel like enough people are doing that? What is your take on that industrial healing complex?
I think the philanthropic industrial complex and the healing industrial complex are invested in one thing, which is self-acclaim. I think we want to feel good about ourselves. And what happens when we do good, quote unquote, inside of systems of oppression, it doesn't mean we're trying to dismantle the system itself. It means that we are trying to assuage our guilt and get good PR.
A lot of the times that's what's happening. Show me people that are invested in eventually getting to the point where we are obsolete. Every piece of work, every work that we do, every activism that we engage with should be that. So eventually this won't be needed.
That's so good.
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