Burnout recovery isn’t just about rest — it’s about recalibration. This episode reveals how chronic appeasement and role fatigue drain your peace, and how to rebuild identity-based boundaries that restore real alignment from the inside out.

If you feel constantly drained — no matter how much you rest — you’re not broken. You’re just leaking peace.

In this episode of The Recalibration, Julie Holly explores the real reason burnout and decision fatigue linger: not overwork, but identity leaks — the subtle ways high-capacity humans trade authenticity for approval.

From a psychology perspective, Julie unpacks how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses shape our nervous system patterns, and why chronic appeasement isn’t humility — it’s dysregulation. Drawing from Polyvagal Theory and the wisdom of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, she explains how “the most common despair is to not be oneself” — and how that despair quietly erodes leadership, peace, and confidence.

Through the story of Katharine Graham of The Washington Post, you’ll see how alignment becomes courage in motion — how defining boundaries transforms fear of loss into integrity and influence.

You’ll also learn how to spot when you’re performing peace instead of living it, and how to rebuild identity-first boundaries that protect presence without hardening your heart.

Because peace isn’t passive — it’s protected.
 And every time you honor your truth instead of managing perception, you teach your nervous system that safety and authenticity can coexist.

Today’s Micro Recalibration — “The Leak Audit”
 Create three columns:
 Role. Relationship. Rhythm.
 Ask in each: “Where am I leaking peace?”
 Then write one clear boundary for each — a single sentence that honors who you’ve become.
 Peace doesn’t grow through permission. It grows through protection.

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