The wellness industry and self-help culture have created a cycle where people “heal and regulate” endlessly, making them fragile and stuck in internal excavation of wounds, attachment, nervous systems, and beliefs while deprioritizing outward building, contributing, and showing up in the world. This self-examination loop can worsen wellbeing because humans are wired for belonging, being...
Burnout is often a timing problem rather than a workload problem, because cognitive capacity fluctuates across the day, week, month, and (especially for women) across hormonal cycles. Sustainable productivity comes from learning your predictable high- and low-capacity windows (chronotypes) and matching task type to those rhythms: schedule heavy strategy and complex thinking when capacity is...
This is myth number four of 4 common myths about success that cause burnout. I’m joined by Hannah who is one of the only somatic nervous system coaching I can currently stand in the online space 🙂 Key points: The difference between consistent, predictable, and growing income (most of us mean predictable). What your body...
“I just need to pivot my life and my burnout will heal.” Ever thought that? I did… I pivoted and left a job in commercial mortgage brokering so that I could teach yoga. Burnout. Then I went to 1:1 work for OCD & Relationships. Burnout. Then I optimised my wellness. Burnout. Then my business model…...
Are you the family mediator, emotional manager, and conflict preventer? This could be an invisible workload the nervous system learned to carry for safety. Tracking group emotions and “keeping the peace” can become a childhood strategy to get needs met, and suggests building body attunement by noticing tension around certain people and asking: what am...
We cover: 1. Stability is built in the repetitive middle, and that middle can feel like pain. 2. A nervous-system approach to sameness, transitions, and the urge to burn it down. 3. How to titrate boredom so your life gets steadier without your body feeling trapped. 02:13 Crying on the Road Trip 03:18 When Life...
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a simple task and wondering why your body won’t move even though your mind understands exactly what needs to be done, this is for you, because that moment is rarely about motivation and much more often about a nervous system that has quietly reached capacity. This episode explores...
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or unable to manage tasks that you think you should handle by now, this is for you. This episode delves into nervous system capacity—how much your system can handle before it leads to anxiety or burnout. Sheridan, a somatic trauma therapist and yoga therapist, explains the concept through practical...
In this episode, we explore why work can feel disproportionately exhausting — even when you enjoy it and are “doing everything right.” You’ll hear about: Why end-of-day exhaustion isn’t always a motivation or discipline problem How constant adaptation to mismatched environments quietly drains nervous system capacity The difference between healthy effort and chronic over-exertion A...
This is for people who: can focus deeply… sometimes too deeply struggle to stop once they’re “in it” feel physical resistance or distress when switching tasks suspect adhd, autism, or nervous system sensitivity are tired of productivity advice that ignores physiology This episode is an excerpt from a recent teaching session many of my clients...
