The Burnout Antidote

Remember this: the people you care for can’t benefit from your presence and your gifts if you are sick and emotionally drained.

worried you will be a burden if you fall apart?

The feeling that we are missing the mark or not doing enough gives way to a sense of resonance and remembrance of who we truly are—no

When your thoughts are about you being less than boundless and free, they are not telling the truth.

Self-betrayal becomes a default setting, and they end up giving more than they have, often to the detriment of an inner world that no one else can see.

Underneath the desire to flee she discovered a deep feeling of unworthiness. That feeling had been with her for her whole life.

rewards the one who is brave and jumps off the cliff, faces the ugly and the shameful, and loves all the present emotions, without judgment.

See, trauma is not limited to extreme events like rape, war, or a horrific accident. There is something more common we call relational trauma, which is the result of overwhelming and painful interactions and adverse childhood experiences (including experiences in utero) where we couldn’t fully process the energy of the moment.

The good news is that we all have an instrument built to transmute beliefs and rewrite the scripts we have internalized. Our body can process the information stored in the cells in the blink of an eye.