Is it possible to burn out doing what you love?

In the previous episode (27), we talked about what to do when your job no longer feels aligned. In this episode, let’s explore the other side: what to do if you love your job, it’s satisfying and giving you purpose, but you find yourself exhausted and drained. You're constantly thinking about it, and maybe you're only feeling good when you’re at work.

This episode will help you answer questions like:

• Why am I burning out even though I like my job?
• Is it possible to be burned out and happy at the same time?
• Why rest isn't helping you feel better
• How to get your energy back so you don’t have to quit or take a LOA

This episode is not about time saving hacks, boosting your productivity, or signing off early and not checking emails at night. You already know all this.

It’s not about workplace management or negotiation. Not about delegation, boundaries, or taking leaves of absence.

No:

We’ll talk about your energy instead. What’s silently draining it, how to build awareness of it, and how to reroute it where you actually want it to go. Your energy is 100% within your control, and when you use it, direct it, and replenish it with intention, you avoid burnout for good.

So you can go on crushing it at your job - without running on empty.

Tune in to learn how to take your energy back and not only love your job, but love your life again.

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You’re successful, but something’s missing. What is it?

You’re doing everything right, and life’s really good, but for whatever reason, you’re not fully happy.

Or maybe you realize that a big part of your life - your job - is slowly depleting you. Maybe you can tell that something needs to change, but you’re not sure what.

This episode will help you answer questions like:

• Why am I unhappy at a really good job?
• Should I leave my stable job?
• What if I’ve built a great career, but now it doesn’t feel right?
• What if I don’t want to quit my job, but can’t keep going the same way anymore?
• How do I figure out what I actually want my life to look like?

So many of us find ourselves in this place, but don’t talk about it. Because life is good on paper. Because there’s nothing to really complain about. Just the inexplicable feeling of emptiness inside, and the mounting stress and pressure (that everyone seems to be tolerating just fine, so why shouldn’t you, right?)

This episode is not urging you to quit your job, move abroad, or make other drastic changes. But it does encourage you to look within at what’s true for you.

We’ll discuss how you know when it’s time for a change, and what kind of change.

We’ll touch on listening to your body’s signs and your heart’s wisdom when it comes to tolerating unaligned environments and situations.

And, most importantly, we’ll get to the core of what you truly want for yourself. What would really make you happy.

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If you’ve been feeling low, empty, uninspired, overwhelmed by everything you have to do and at the same time a little lost in life, take a few minutes to come back to yourself with this meditation. 

Follow along anywhere, anytime: walking, sitting, laying down, pausing at work. Just make sure that you’re somewhere quiet and won’t be interrupted for 6 minutes.

Listen to Episode 26: “Reclaiming Lost Parts of Yourself” for how to rejuvenate your life if you’ve been stuck in the same routine, working too much, for too long.

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When you get so stuck in the same routine that every day starts looking the same, slowly, over time, it starts to drain you. It starts to feel like you’re just a “doing machine” getting through the day’s to-do list. And despite being busy, despite all of it being important things, you start feeling empty.

Have you been there?

And if so, have you heard the advice: switch up your routine? Take a different route home, go to a new cafe, pick up a new book?

It’s not bad advice… but it’s missing the core of the problem.

In this episode, let’s get to the core. Let’s talk about how to bring energy and color back into your life. How to feel excited about your life again. How to bring back a sense of meaning and significance to your days.

But most importantly, let’s talk about bringing lost pieces of you back to yourself.

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When you’re going through a particularly challenging period of life, and NOTHING seems to be going well, here’s a simple and quick practice to get you feeling better immediately, and see things in a new light.

Before we problem solve our life, we need to raise our emotional baseline.

This is the Energy-First Approach.

And today, we’ll talk about the Anchoring practice: how to find balance and feel more grounded when it feels like everything is conspiring against you.

In this episode, I explain:

• Why you can’t always trust your emotions (but why it’s so important to pay attention to them)
• How to raise your daily emotional baseline
• How thoughts that we’re not even aware of define our reality
• How to feel better about your life without making any big changes on the outside

Things are never as bad as they seem. And… you’re doing better than you realize.

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Part 2 of the latest feminine rage conversation! (Check out episode 23 for part 1.)

In the last episode, I shared some strategies for how to create better conditions in our lives to allow for more focus, more uninterrupted meaningful work, and have more space for rest.

In this episode, we’re adding another layer: the “this is harder for a woman” layer. We’re going to dive into some frustrating patterns in feminine-masculine dynamics around the topics of focus, having enough time for what we want to do, being recognized for our strengths and contributions, and plain old getting things done.

But, of course, I’ll also be sharing my solutions for how to make your life easier, how to talk to men about this, and how to recruit them to be on your side.

If you’re feeling like you can never get things done, this episode is for you.

If you’re feeling the unfairness of being the only one to catch the things that fall through the cracks - and then have no time for what you actually want to do - this episode is DEFINITELY for you.

You are doing amazing. AND… you deserve better.

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To learn how to get your energy back and ease the stress and pressure in your life right now, book an Energetic Reset call below.

If you’re curious about working with me 1-on-1, reach out to me through my website.

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Let’s get into some righteous feminine rage today! And talk strategy, too: strategy of how to create better conditions in our lives to allow us to do more focused work, more meaningful work, and have more space for rest and for ourselves.

In this episode, I talk about why it’s harder to get things done now than it was 100 years ago and earlier.

I also share our plan for how we, my husband and I, are taking back our time and our energy, preventing daily decision fatigue, and making sure we have the time for what’s truly important to us.

What we tend to forget is that the average modern day middle class person has WAY MORE on their plate than humans ever did.

So if you’re feeling behind in life, this episode is for you.

This is part 1 of a 2-parter on this topic: check out episode 24 for why this is even harder for women, and what we as women can do to level out the playing field.

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To learn how to get your energy back and ease the stress and pressure in your life right now, book an Energetic Reset call below.

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Sometimes you get to a point where you feel dissatisfied, frustrated, stressed, and you wonder: how did I GET here?

You’re doing everything right, you’re doing great at your job, taking care of your household and family, taking care of your health - and yet you still get to this point when life just feels off.

Let’s talk about how to prevent that. How to get back into your flow, and how to make life feel good again.

In this episode, we’ll discuss:

• How women are conditioned, over many generations, to sacrifice their dreams and desires for others,
• Why our “perfect life plans” sometimes lead us to unhappiness,
• The pitfall of designing your life around other people’s needs and desires (and getting praised for it as doing something smart),
• How to shift that and start designing your life around your OWN needs and desires,
• The one question, and practice, that will help you always find a life direction that feels right

Let me show you how to steer yourself towards what would feel good, exciting, and aligned.

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To learn how to get your energy back and ease the stress and pressure in your life right now, book an Energetic Reset call below.

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When your partner is going through a stressful time - whether at work, with family, with too much to do, etc. - or a sad spell, or an episode of anxiety - it’s SO hard to watch them be in this sucky place and NOT know how to help.

We TRY to help: we offer solutions, we want to fix it for them, we try to distract them, but ultimately, we just hope that the next therapy appointment will make everything better.

You do NOT have to wait for that.

There’s a lot you can do, as the person who loves them and knows them best, to help them feel better and get through the difficult period.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why their stress and emotions are not a problem to be solved
• What DOES help, immediately and effectively, instead of analyzing emotions, root causes, and trying to fix things
• How you can empower your partner, help them remember their resources, and offer a bigger perspective
• How to be a great listener - without extra pressure on yourself

We all have difficult seasons, and when your love is going through such a time, you have a lot of power to help them ride it out smoothly while maintaining their wellbeing and mental health.

And it really doesn’t require much effort on your end at all.

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I used to believe that self care is something I’ll do closer to retirement. Maybe when my career slows down a bit. Maybe after kids… and honestly, I thought that self care is something only the rich and the privileged had time for.

Now I believe that self care is possible 24/7 - when you make it a natural part of your life.

In this episode, I share the mental shifts that helped me see self care differently, see myself and my mental health differently, and start honoring my body in a way I always wanted to.

It starts with these mental shifts, because self care always starts in the mind.

And even if life is hectic, if you barely have time to pause, if everything is spinning around you at insane speeds - I believe you DO have time for self care. Let me tell you why.

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To learn how to get your energy back and ease the stress and pressure in your life right now, book an Energetic Reset call below.

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