You know that moment where your kid says or does something, your nervous system spikes, and every parenting thing you’ve ever learned disappears from your brain… 

Today we’re talking about the huge gap between what we know about calm parenting and what actually comes out when we’re tired, stressed, and triggered.

I’m joined by Dr. Alissa Jerud—clinical psychologist, DBT expert, and author of Emotion-Savvy Parenting. 

Dr. Jerud blends gold-standard, evidence-based tools with respectful parenting so you can stop white-knuckling your reactions and start leading with grounded emotional skill.

In this episode, we’re diving into:

• The “knowing vs. doing” gap in motherhood
  Why even the most trained parents lose access to their tools under stress—and what shifts when you stop trying to control your child and start regulating yourself.
  
  
• The ART framework: Accept, Regulate, Tolerate
   How to accept emotions without judgment, understand the real “ingredients” behind your reactions, and work with triggers, thoughts, and vulnerabilities so you’re less likely to snap.
  
  
• What to do when anger hijacks your system
   How to feel anger without exploding, use distress-tolerance skills to dial it down, and choose actions that align with the parent you want to be.

This conversation is for you if you’ve ever thought, “I should know better by now,” but your reactions aren’t matching the mom you want to be. You’ll walk away with language, lenses, and practical tools you can use in real time… even on the messy days.

Pick up Dr Jerud’s book Emotion-Savvy Parenting here.

What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t your schedule… but the boundaries you don’t even realize you’re breaking?

If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, stretched thin, reactive, or like you’re carrying more than your share (mentally, emotionally, logistically)… this episode is the missing piece.

Because high-capacity women don’t burn out from weakness.

They burn out from misaligned boundaries — the subtle, invisible ones you don’t see until your energy is already leaking everywhere.

And once you understand these four boundary categories, you’ll finally see:

✨ why you feel overextended even when you “should” be fine
✨ where your bandwidth disappears
✨ the patterns that pull you out of regulation
✨ why your emotional labor keeps creeping up
✨ and the exact boundaries you need to rebuild next

This is one of the most important conversations I’ve ever recorded for high-achieving women who want to feel calm, grounded, and in control of their energy again.

If you’ve been trying to “manage stress,” “be more disciplined,” or “get organized” — and it still feels like you’re running on fumes — press play. This is the episode you’ve been needing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The 4 misaligned boundaries that drain nearly every high-capacity woman
• Why overwhelm is not a time-management problem
• How your nervous system determines your boundaries long before your mind does
• The subtle ways you leak energy without noticing
• The boundary category that most high-achieving women neglect
• The exact places to start if you want more time, more bandwidth, and more ease

If you’re ready to stop leaking energy — here’s your next step:

Honor Your Energy and the VIP Capacity Alignment Audit are open through Wednesday, December 3 at 1pm ET.

Register before the live call starts, and you’ll get coaching with me inside the session.

What if the most powerful version of you isn’t the one who does more — but the one who gets crystal clear on what truly matters…

and stops leaking energy on everything that doesn’t?

Today’s episode is a grounded, science-backed reframe of overwhelm — not as a time problem, but as a capacity problem. 

When you understand what’s actually happening inside your nervous system, everything shifts: your clarity, your presence, your patience, your ability to breathe again.

Inside, we’ll cover:

• ✔️ The physiology of overwhelm (and why it hits without warning)
• ✔️ Who you become when your nervous system finally gets the support it’s been asking for
• ✔️ The one-minute somatic reset that expands your capacity fast
• ✔️ Why honoring your energy is the first step toward feeling like yourself again

Honor Your Energy, my 7-day nervous system + boundaries reset, is open for a few more days at the Founder Rate. It’s the most powerful next step if you’re ready to stop running past your bandwidth and rebuild your capacity from the inside out.

There are three things silently draining your energy this week — and they have nothing to do with your schedule.

They’re happening inside your nervous system.

And once you learn to spot them, you can interrupt them in seconds.

Holiday overwhelm isn’t random.

It’s patterned.

In today’s episode, we’re breaking down the exact mechanisms behind each pattern, why they intensify during the holidays, and how to use simple, science-backed somatic interrupters to reclaim your capacity in real time.

✨ Quick reminder before we dive in:
Honor Your Energy — my 7-Day Nervous System + Boundaries Reset — is officially open for enrollment this week only.

If you’re tired of feeling maxed out or living at the edge of burnout, this reset will help you regulate your system quickly and stop leaking energy in your everyday life.

 👉 Click here for Honor Your Energy: A 7-Day Nervous System + Boundaries Reset!

🌟 Click here for Honor Your Energy + VIP Capacity Alignment Audit

✔️ The neuroscience behind invisible labor

How hypervigilance, predictive modeling, and mirror neurons pull you into cognitive overload long before you feel overwhelmed — and why shaking + heel drops instantly discharge sympathetic activation.

✔️ Why emotional caretaking feels automatic

How empathy circuitry, emotional fusion, and the fawn response activate during family gatherings… and the 30-second somatic reset that restores your emotional boundaries on the spot.

✔️ What causes boundary collapse under pressure

Why your brain predicts “no” as a threat, how stress hijacks executive function, and how to use the micro-pause + physiological sigh to access choice instead of reflex.

✔️ How holiday stress reduces your window of tolerance

A deeper look at allostatic load, anticipatory stress, and why your bandwidth shrinks even when you’re technically “off.”

✔️ Three practical somatic interrupters you can use anywhere

Each tool is fast, discreet, and physiology-backed — perfect for crowded kitchens, emotional conversations, and overstimulated evenings.

If this episode lands in your body — if you feel stretched thin, reactive, or overloaded — this is the week to reset your capacity.

Honor Your Energy is a 7-day Nervous System + Boundaries Reset designed to help you:

✨ regulate your system quickly
✨ stop leaking energy through invisible labor and people-pleasing
✨ interrupt your stress response in real time
✨ rebuild your bandwidth in a way that fits your real life
✨ protect your energy with boundaries your body actually feels safe holding

You’ll receive:

✔️ Daily somatic resets
 ✔️ The Boundary Alignment Tracker (your clarity tool for overgiving)
 ✔️ The Energy-Honoring Script Library (no-guilt boundaries made easy)
 ✔️ Your Stress Response Profile — a live workshop with Michelle
 ✔️ Optional upgrade: The Capacity Alignment Audit™
 …a personalized analysis of your real-life energy leaks + a VIP coaching call to walk through it

Enrollment closes soon — grab your spot while it’s open!

👉Honor Your Energy: A 7-Day Nervous System + Boundaries Reset

👉Honor Your Energy + VIP Capacity Alignment Audit

Ever notice how you can know what you need…
yet still feel unable to follow through?

That gap — between what you know and what you do — is almost never a mindset problem.

It’s a nervous system pattern.

And as we head into the holidays — a time that amplifies emotional labor, invisible load, family dynamics, and patterned responsibility — your body’s old beliefs tend to get louder, not quieter.

Today’s episode uncovers five core beliefs that keep high-achieving women stuck, not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because your nervous system learned these beliefs as a way to keep you safe.

Inside this episode, we explore:

✔️ Why you say yes when you’re already at capacity
✔️ The neuroscience behind “I know better… but I still do it”
✔️ The five survival beliefs your nervous system holds onto (and the unmet safety needs underneath each one)
✔️ Somatically aligned reframes your body can genuinely believe, integrate, and trust
✔️ Tiny nervous-system practices to shift these patterns in real time — especially during holiday stress, family pressure, or emotional overwhelm

This episode isn’t about forcing confidence, using willpower, or repeating affirmations your body doesn’t believe.

It’s about understanding your physiology — so your choices finally feel possible.

Because when your nervous system feels safe?

✨ Boundaries become easier.
✨ Your “yes” becomes honest.
✨ Your “no” becomes grounded.
✨ The pressure to perform, please, and overfunction softens.
✨ You move through the holidays with more clarity, calm, and capacity.

If you’ve spent years being the dependable one… the capable one… the woman who “can handle anything”… this episode will feel like relief, recognition, and an exhale your body has been waiting for.

Most high-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re incapable…
they burn out because they’ve been conditioned to ignore their human capacity.

Today’s episode is a look at what happens when you live beyond your limits for too long — the subtle, everyday ways your nervous system tries to warn you, and the  clarity that emerges when you finally start honoring the margins built into your design.

Inside this conversation, we explore:

 ✔️ The neuroscience of capacity — how allostatic load affects your capacity and executive function
✔️ Five quiet signs you’re already beyond your limits, including irritability, rushing, emotional reactivity, feeling touched-out, and end-of-day procrastination
✔️ How your body communicates depletion, long before burnout becomes visible
✔️ How to begin honoring your actual limits so you stop burning energy you don’t realistically have

This isn’t about dimming your drive or lowering your standards.

It’s about aligning your ambition with your biology — so you can show up with more clarity, presence, patience, creativity, and peace.

If you’ve been operating on grit, overriding your cues, or believing that “being strong” means pretending you’re limitless, this episode will feel like honesty, relief, and a grounded path back to yourself.

If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, constantly “on,” or quietly resentful even while doing everything “right”… this episode is going to land.

Because here’s the truth most high-capacity women were never taught:

You can’t honor your energy without boundaries — and every time you override your limits, your nervous system pays the price.

We’re dismantling the modern myth that energy is a mindset problem… and revealing the real reason you feel depleted, overwhelmed, or numb:

nervous-system-based boundary collapse.

Whether it shows up as people-pleasing, chronic overfunctioning, emotional caretaking, guilt when resting, or simply the inability to say no… your body keeps the score long before you mentally “notice” you’re burned out.

Inside this conversation, you’ll learn:

✔️ The neuroscience of energy leaks

How fawning, over-giving, and constant striving keep your body in chronic fight-or-flight — and why shutdown, numbness, and exhaustion often follow.

✔️ What boundary collapse really looks like in high-achieving women

The subtle signs you’ve normalized (resentment, irritability, over-responsibility, low bandwidth, self-abandonment) — and how your body interprets them as danger cues.

✔️ Why your limits aren’t flaws — they’re design features

How honoring your God-given capacity actually expands your ability to show up with clarity, purpose, and peace.

✔️ Why honoring your energy is impossible without nervous-system alignment

And why no planner, routine, or productivity hack will give you the bandwidth your body doesn’t have.

What if the thing you’re missing isn’t more discipline — it’s more play?

Not structured play.
Not “fun time” on your calendar.
Not something productive or Pinterest-worthy.

Real play.
Pointless, joyful, silly, inefficient play.

In this episode, we unpack:

✔️ Why a lack of play quietly fuels anxiety, irritability, and burnout
✔️ The neuroscience of how play expands creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation
✔️ How play restores executive function — the part of your brain responsible for decision-making and focus
✔️ Simple ways to bring play back into your life (even if you feel disconnected from it)

This isn’t about adding another task to your day.
It’s about remembering what your nervous system already knows:

Play is medicine.

Play is regulation.
Play brings you back to yourself.

If you’ve been efficient, responsible, and exhausted, this episode will feel like an exhale — and an invitation to feel alive again.

If motherhood ever cracked you open in ways you didn’t expect—old grief surfacing, worthiness wobbling, “Who even am I now?”—this conversation will feel like oxygen.

I’m joined by Anna Seewald—Armenian-born educator, psychologist, and parenting & co-parenting specialist. 

After surviving the 1988 Spitak earthquake at 13 (losing her mother, home, friends, and community), Anna built a life and practice in the U.S. 

For the last 17 years she’s worked with parents in New Jersey as a therapist and divorce mediator, helping families heal patterns at the root—without perfectionism, shame, or Band-Aid fixes.

We’re diving into:

•  ✔️ Trauma-informed parenting 101: why early loss/relational wounds resurface in pregnancy and the “dark side” of early motherhood—and how to stop repeating unconscious patterns
•  ✔️ Worthiness, shame, and the nervous system: why self-compassion (not self-critique) is the real regulator—and how to practice acceptance even when you don’t “love” every part of you
•  ✔️ Practical repair tools: catching the harsh inner critic, shifting from people-pleasing to needs-honoring, body gratitude over body punishment, and simple in-the-moment resets (hand-on-heart, kinder self-talk, micro-choices)

If you feel like you’ve been hanging onto parents for dear life—or minimizing your story because it’s not “capital-T” trauma—this episode offers grounded hope and clear next steps.

🎧 Press play to learn how to honor your history, rewire toward gentleness, and lead your family from a steadier, kinder core.

The next cohort of Burnout Recovery Blueprint opens January 2026. Join the waitlist HERE for early access, exclusive bonuses, and Black Friday savings.

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You’ve mastered your calendar.

You’ve optimized your mornings.

You’ve checked every box.

So why do you still feel anxious, rushed, and never quite caught up?

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the biggest modern myths — the illusion that productivity leads to peace.

Because what if all your effort to “manage time” has actually been keeping your nervous system trapped in survival mode?

You’ll discover:

•  ✔️ The neuroscience of why efficiency fuels anxiety rather than freedom
•  ✔️ How the pursuit of control over time accelerates burnout and dysregulation
•  ✔️ A radically different approach to partnering with time instead of fighting against it
•  ✔️ Why embracing your human limits — not escaping them — expands your true capacity for joy, rest, and fulfillment

This episode is both a reframe and a release — an invitation to slow down, surrender the illusion of control, and start building rhythm instead of chasing balance.

Because peace isn’t found in mastering time.

It’s found in honoring it.

If you’ve been white-knuckling your calendar, constantly chasing the next hack, or wondering why “having it all together” still feels hollow, this conversation will help you exhale, realign, and finally live at the pace of peace..