Sheridan Ruth

230: 12 Do’s & Don’ts Using ChatGPT for Burnout, Motivation & Nervous System Alignment

ChatGPT can give you insight. It can’t give you integration.

And if we’re not careful, it can become another tool that mimics transformation without actually moving anything inside us.

Today, I’m giving you a straight list. 12 do’s and don’ts. Action-oriented. Clear. We’re not here to overprocess—we’re here to practice.

Last episode: 229: ChatGPT & burnout: What it gets right, what your nervous system still needs. Click here.

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  How to use AI and coaching together to design a nervous system aligned role and schedule.

This podcast is a follow up to the prior podcast on the same topic, but I'm gonna specifically talk to the do's and don'ts in the last podcast, and please go back and listen to it. Uh. I dunno whenever you want, but just go download it now so that you will, and you won't forget, is we talk about like the, the theory and the neuroscience behind these do's and don'ts.

These do's and Don's. I just have them written in a list and I am going to read them to you and provide a short explanation so that, and they're action oriented. So do generally your thoughts, don't explore something. Ready, let's go. Also, if this is something that you're curious about, I actually do have a chat to BT for burnout prevention.

She's really great. She knows my book, she knows my work in in. She's so incredible. I get so much great feedback on her. If you go to Sheridan Ruth Forward slash Soma, or you go into the show notes below, you can use her. She's a safe, safe, as safe as I can possibly say at the moment. Um. Because so much of AI is like, we haven't been here before.

We haven't studied it completely. So we're discovering this one together, my friends. But she is what I would feel confident to suggest to you as a burnout support chat, TBT. She uses nervous system alignment, somatic therapy, parts work, emotional processing and protocols that fit into different types of businesses.

Uh, whether you're self-employed or you're working inside of a large company. She is. She's amazing. She's got you covered. She's free to download. Go play with her. So let's dive into these 16. Number one, the topic is that the limitation is that chat two, BT can reflect what you, how you see the world. It cannot reveal what is missing.

So that means that you can use it for journaling your thoughts and asking it to reflect themes, desires, or priorities. Like your values-based priorities from your answers. It's kind of good at like bringing forward what's swirling in your mind. I would then take that to your coach to explore what is missing, what are you not seeing?

Where are you limiting yourself? Do your roles reflect? Do your goals and thought processes reflect survival strategies? Or your actual desires or what assumptions are unconsciously shaping the structure of the thing of the world that you're seeing An example of an of an assumption would be people do not like to help me, or it's not safe to speak up, or this client slash job slash role is gonna end in burnout like my last one did.

Number two, confirming beliefs instead of challenging them, use bt. To draft weekly rhythms that feel aligned, job descriptions, um, you can ask it to help. Articulate your ideal work day based off of the values, like help identify your values, help it, it might be able to help. That one's a bit tricky. 'cause values are things that we don't really see and somebody else can often see them inside of us because we're literally living them.

We're blind to them. But you could say, okay, here are my values. Like, how would I enact these values in a, in my business or in this role that I'm in? You could use it for brainstorming like that, but you would want to use your coach to actually say, okay, cool. Here's how I am thinking of structuring my day, and here are the things that I would like to do.

Or Here's what I find myself doing. Where is this shaped by urgency, people pleasing, fear, um, over responsibility. And then just let them help you see how you selfa abandon, but you call it clarity. I love you. I think you're great, but I'm gonna. Say what's real. Number three, try GPT cannot co-regulate. You can use it for breaking down your schedule ideas into little steps.

You can use it to create scripts for boundary setting, maybe, um, you can use it to create auto responses. You can use it to take an email and make it sound nicer. But you wanna use your coach for noticing or nervous system tension as you are naming those boundaries. Why that con, why that email is difficult?

What are your underlying beliefs and practice co-regulating in relation? So being seen in relation with another human through discomfort as you implement and learn these new skills. So that you can do them without relying on chat GPT, or if you wanna rely without putting so much effort and energy in, so you can use that energy and effort for something else.

Something more fun. Okay, number four is that chat, GPT does not interrupt your survival patterns. So you can use it for listing all of the ways that you've tried to create balance before, and then like creating a, a journal log of what has worked, what hasn't. You can ask it to help you identify why it worked, why it didn't, and then take that to your coach and identify which of those attempts were led by fawning freezing.

Fighting or fighting, and then which ones were resourced and what does resourced actually mean, and do you even know what that feels like in your body? And then how do we create that and move forward so that you can live a happy life? Number five is the limitation of chat PT is that there's no messy, middle, really acknowledged, and we want you to.

You could use it to help you, like create a structure for your week that has buffer zones or batch your tasks. Maybe. I really like using the Soma burnout prevention thing. When I feel a little bit overwhelmed, I will voice message it and I'll say, okay, I've got all of these things going on and I, I need to like batch them into things that are a similar type of thought process.

Can you like make a to-do list for me? This is really helpful. I'm studying full time. I'm working full time, and I refuse to work. Like to deplete myself with work. I'm, I just won't, it would also be kind of weird if I did as a burnout coach. Uh, so I find that really helpful. And I'm also traveling a lot fun.

But then you wanna go to your coach and you want to use their support when that structure or your to-do list basically doesn't work. And then help. Help yourself with your coach to build the capacities or the nervous system capacity to return back to your to-do list, back to that project, without self-blame and with a lot of compassion and with integrated wisdom, what did we learn and how do we move that using forward?

The number, the last one that I'm gonna say is that. I'll remind you, type jt. BT is a predictive model. It is not here to perceive and see you and know you deeply. So you can use it to generate options. Oh, I'm thinking of this like I am, I'm thinking of applying for a job over here. Like what could that role look like?

Um, I'm thinking of selling this thing. What could that look like? I'm thinking of delivering this workflow. What could that look like? You can kind of play with it. But you want to use your coach to help you feel into each one and pick the one that your body trusts, the one that feels them the easiest, so that you actually follow through and the one that reinforces the person you are becoming, not your fear of failure, your fear of visibility, your fear of responsibility.

So this is the sweet spot where we're using chat TBT to organize and brainstorm from the head, but we're using coaching to integrate and embody and ground into a rhythm that your nervous system can sustain as a trauma therapist, as a coach for the last 10 years who likes speaking productive and wants to spend more time.

Eating peanut butter sandwiches and watching secret lives of Mormon wives, ah, it's so good. You don't need to stop using Chad GBT, but you might need to stop expecting it to do the work. Your nervous system still needs to feel. Use it to help name questions, but do not skip the depth of work living in the the in, in that unknown.

And if you are craving a space where your insight and what you're learning becomes integration, when your, where your body gets to be part of the change, where you get to finally feel and live into this role, this lifetime, this system, this structure that aligns with your nervous system and your experience, whether that's inside of your business or inside of a new career or some type of hybrid.

Reach out to me. You can book a free zero pressure curiosity call, and we can explore what that looks like together because sometimes the clarity you're looking for is not in the brainstorm. It's actually in the human that you get to speak with, honestly, and I would love to be that human for you. It's a 30 minute call.

It's super fun. We dive in with curiosity. They're my favorite things in the world, and if it feels good, I'll share what it might be like to work together, and if not, cool as well. I will speak with you inside of your call. Bye.

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