Hey beautiful ones, welcome back to the Self Care Oasis Podcast! I’m Samantha Gregory, the Self Care Alchemist. Today, I’m inviting you into an eye-opening, real-talk conversation with Roxanne Turner, a powerful mental health professional who gets personal about what it really takes to move from burnout back to bliss.

If you’re tired of pretending that having it all feels as good as it looks, or you’re noticing your body and soul pulling you in a whole other direction, sit with us and take a few deep breaths. This is a conversation I know you’re going to feel in your bones.

Conversation Highlights

* What Happens When Success Isn’t Enough: Roxanne Turner and I dig into the moment she realized her hard-won career and shiny titles just weren’t lighting her up anymore (01:24). That realization shifted everything about how she now lives and works.

* No One Prepares You for the Letdown: We talk about the missing chapters in the “success manual” and why achievement can sometimes trigger unexpected grief and confusion along with celebration (02:00).

* Family, Career, and the Cost of Disconnection: Roxanne Turner got honest about how “protecting everyone else” almost made her miss the most important people in her life (04:18).

* Making Healing a Team Sport: We talk about therapy, body wisdom, and what it was like letting family remind her when she was pushing too hard after burnout. It’s raw, real, and so needed for high achievers (09:30).

* Hormones, Burnout, and the Wake-Up Call: We laugh (and commiserate) about perimenopause and how those body shifts force us to stop living like machines and start honoring our own rhythms (14:37).

* The Values Framework: Roxanne Turner breaks down her signature approach for helping women reconnect with their top values, get brutally honest with where they’ve sacrificed themselves, and make decisions that finally feel like self-devotion and not duty (19:21).

* Come Home to Your Inner Teen: One of my favorites: Roxanne Turner asks us to reflect on what lit us up around age 15 or 16 before everyone else’s opinions got louder than our own. Start there and see what you discover (31:45).

Segments in the Conversation

* Burnout Gets Personal: The moment when burnout became impossible to ignore (05:42)

* The Permission Slip: How to cope when people meet your healing with “it must be nice” and why that isn’t your stuff to carry (12:44)

* Custom-Tailored Self Care: Self care isn’t bubble baths unless that’s your actual love language

* A Practical Toolkit: Using values to check in with your real self, make your next move, and break out of the hamster wheel

Connect with Roxanne Turner

Trust me, you want more of Roxanne Turner’s energy and expertise in your life. Visit her at Pivotal Perspectives CC and follow @pivotalperspectivesllc on socials. She’s open for discovery calls and shares plenty of bite-sized wisdom to get you back in alignment with yourself.

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