Writings & Musings
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Insight and inspiration on living unhurried lives, overcoming feminine burnout, reclaiming our radiance and self-sovereignty and embracing our brilliance.
Burnout Begins Long Before it Happens : When Women Don’t Have a Village
Recently, I’ve been immersed in a lot of films, books and content that speak to the early days of motherhood. I’ve been viscerally reminded of the immense rush of love and care we often experience at this life-changing threshold. But also of the less spoken about raw exhaustion, tender hormonal rollercoaster and emotional fragility that so many of us experience concurrently.
It got me reflecting on my experience of profound burnout over ten years ago …
We often think of burnout as a switch that is flicked quite suddenly.
And in truth, it often presents this way.
Many of the women I have supported over the years feel like they were coping, functioning, managing one day, before seemingly ‘crashing’ through sheer exhaustion the next.
But in reality, burnout begins long before it happens.
In the many seasons of carrying too much without being properly held.
A Softer Way to Begin the Year: Gentle Nervous System Support for More Peace and Less Pressure
There’s an energy to new beginnings that’s incredibly compelling - it’s fresh, vibrant and exciting.
So many of us start the year feeling the pressure to sprint right out of the gate.
Yet, we might still be digesting the past year, and our nervous system might still be trying to soften the survival energy that has kept us going, perhaps for months.
One key ingredient to embracing what is new and unfamiliar, which is often overlooked is this: having enough capacity and stability to move from comfort to stretch, from familiarity to newness, from what has been to what could be, from where we are to exciting new possibilities.
Nature teaches us that we cannot plant new seeds in arid soil.
For us, it means starting with tending to our body and nervous system, so the soil becomes enriched, fertile and supportive of growth.
The Edge of Burnout: Listening to the Body Before It Shuts Down
Before we experience the full force of burnout, we often find ourselves in a confusing space.
We are still holding everything together, but beneath the surface, we sense that something within us has begun to fray and to deplete.
Even if a part of us knows that something needs to shift, we don’t feel that we have the time to pause, explore a more sustainable path, or recalibrate.
So while we double down to make sure that the veneer stays intact on the outside, on the inside, our heart races for no clear reason, our sleep doesn’t seem to restore us in the same way, and we wake up in the middle of the night with thoughts racing in infinite loops.
If this feels familiar, you could be standing at the edge of burnout.
