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12 Do’s & Don’ts: Using ChatGPT for Burnout & Motivation

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

Earlier this week I wrote about how I (as a somatic coach for sustainable work) use ChatGPT with my clients. We went through the limitations, and the hacks.

Here are 12 do’s and dont’s to help you navigate work in this weird landscape today. 

 

If you’re curious about this, by the way, I actually have a burnout-prevention ChatGPT bot you can use. She knows my work, my book, my frameworks. I’ve had great feedback from clients. She’s designed around nervous system alignment, somatic therapy, parts work, and emotional protocols.

 

Go to sheridanruth.com/soma or click the link in the show notes to meet her.

  1. Reflecting your lens — not revealing it
  • Use GPT to: Journal your thoughts and ask it to reflect themes, desires, or priorities from your answers. Great for surfacing what’s swirling.
  • Use your coach to: Explore what’s missing from the lens you’re viewing through. Do your role goals reflect survival strategies or actual desires? What assumptions are unconsciously shaping your structure?
  1. Confirming beliefs instead of challenging them
  • Use GPT to: Draft role descriptions or weekly rhythms that sound aligned. Ask it to help articulate your ideal workday or values-based leadership.
  • Use your coach to: Ask: “Where is this still shaped by urgency, people-pleasing, or fear?” Let them help you spot subtle self-abandonment dressed as clarity.
  1. No co-regulation
  • Use GPT to: Break down your schedule ideas into gentle steps. Use it to create scripts for boundary-setting or auto-responses that reduce pressure.
  • Use your coach to: Notice where your nervous system tenses when naming those boundaries. Practice co-regulating through discomfort as you actually implement.
  1. No interruption of survival patterns
  • Use GPT to: List all the ways you’ve tried to create balance before. Ask what’s worked and what hasn’t.
  • Use your coach to: Identify which of those attempts were led by fawn/freeze/fight/flight and re-pattern them from a resourced state.
  1. No messy middle
  • Use GPT to: Create a flexible structure for your week — one that includes buffer zones, slow mornings, or task batching.
  • Use your coach to: Support you when that structure inevitably breaks down. Help you build the capacity to return without collapse or self-blame.
  1. Predictive, not perceptive
  • Use GPT to: Generate options. Multiple versions of a role, offer, or workflow to play with.
  • Use your coach to: Help you feel into each one. Which one your body trusts. Which one feels like traction instead of tension.

This is the sweet spot: using GPT to organize and brainstorm from the head, and using coaching to integrate, embody, and ground it into a rhythm your nervous system can actually sustain.

 

Somatic coaching for women in transitions with sensitive nervous systems, ADHD or cPTSD.

You don’t need to stop using GPT. But you might need to stop expecting it to do the work your nervous system still needs to feel.

Use it to name the question. But don’t skip the depth work of living into the answer.

And if you’re craving a space where insight becomes integration—where your body gets to be part of the change—that’s what I do.

Click here to book a free, zero-pressure Curiosity Call to explore that together.

How I use ChatGPT with burnout & trauma therapy clients (and where it just won’t work)

How I use ChatGPT with burnout & trauma therapy clients

(and where it just won't work)

How to Use ChatGPT in Burnout Without Replacing Your Body’s Wisdom


You ever have one of those moments where ChatGPT says something back to you and you think… wait, that’s exactly it?

Like it just named something you’ve been circling for weeks?

I have. My clients have. Sometimes I even give them a transcript of our coaching session and suggest they paste it in to see what themes GPT reflects and how to integrate that into their decision-making.

And it can be incredibly helpful. But here’s the thing:

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.

Where ChatGPT can replace a coach and therapist 

Used skillfully, GPT can help you:

  • Summarize and organize your scattered thoughts
  • Offer language you didn’t have access to yet

This is especially helpful if you’re highly sensitive, deep-thinking, or neurodivergent. It can feel like someone finally gets how your brain works.

 

How to use this for productivty and burnout prevention:

  • Use GPT to: Brain-dump everything that feels “off” in your current work rhythm. Ask it to cluster your responses into themes like energy leaks, clarity blocks, or tension points.

  • Use your coach to: Dig into those clusters to uncover root causes. Are these patterns driven by habit, nervous system dysregulation, or unspoken needs? Let them help you design supportive micro-rituals or role edits that address the why, not just the what.

And that’s powerful. But…

Monday morning fatigue despite passion for work

Why ChatGPT can’t replace a therapist, coach, or healing relationship 

  1. Can ChatGPT replace a coach?
    GPT can only work with what you give it. It organizes the data you provide—but it can’t notice what’s missing.

Example: A client tells GPT, “I’m scared to niche down.” GPT gives the pros and cons. It doesn’t ask: “Is this about messaging, or is your nervous system in a freeze response around visibility?”

  1. Can AI help me create a burnout free schedule?
    AI is trained to be helpful, not disruptive. If you ask, “How can I be more productive?” it will give you tools—not question whether your productivity is trauma-fueled.

How to use this for your schedule design:

  • Use GPT to: Generate structure templates based on your stated values—like spaciousness, slowness, or autonomy. Let it help with logistics like time-blocking or role breakdowns.

     

  • Use your coach to: Sense-check whether those templates are actually regenerative or just another polished version of burnout. Ask them to help you feel where the push still lives beneath the plan.

     

  1. Can ChatGPT help me with emotional regulation at work?
     Even if GPT gives you beautiful insight, it doesn’t hold your nervous system while you feel it. It can’t help you stay in your body when big emotions surface.

From a neuroscience perspective, co-regulation is a biological process. When we are in the presence of another regulated nervous system—especially one that is attuned, empathetic, and grounded—our own system begins to mirror that safety. This happens through mechanisms like the vagus nerve and mirror neurons. It’s not something you do consciously. It’s something your body responds to.

ChatGPT can mimic attunement through words, but it doesn’t have a body. It can’t read your micro-expressions or adjust its tone in real time based on your breath. It can’t offer the calming presence that lets your amygdala deactivate and your prefrontal cortex come back online. In other words: it can offer insight, but it can’t restore regulation.

And without regulation, insight often becomes just another cognitive load—something else you know, but can’t yet live.

  1. Does Ai help me with fear, anxiety and nervous system dysregulation?
    One of the roles of coaching or therapy is to lovingly call out where you’re acting from fear, not truth. GPT doesn’t notice when you’re subtly outsourcing your power.

From a neuroscience lens, these survival patterns are wired through the subcortical regions of the brain. They sit deep inside the amygdala — the part that senses fear — and in the brain stem, the places that create reflexive, instinctual reactions.

These reactions aren’t accessible through logic, language, or talking. That’s why safety, presence, and body awareness matter so much. We have to feel what’s happening in our system and attune to ourselves and others.

When you’re operating from even a subtle state of survival — fight (“I need to fix this”), flight (“I need to get away”), freeze (“this is too much”), or fawn (“It’s fine, don’t worry about me”) — you’re running a completely different program.

ChatGPT, or any AI tool, might help you organise your thoughts or create an action plan, but it can’t change the fact that your body is still running on fear. And when we’re running in fear, we tend to create more fear. Life feels harder, drama shows up, things spiral.

There’s a wonderful book on this called Addicted to Drama by Scott Lyons (I’ll link it in the show notes). It speaks beautifully to how fear and chaos can become wired in.

And here’s the shift: when you work with a skilled practitioner, half the work isn’t about “fixing” but about pausing. Together, we notice where the dysregulation is, and then re-pattern it into something new — something that feels safe. From there, you gain energy, clarity, and the ability to make better decisions.

Read: Scott Lyons Addiction To Drama. 

  1. How to be human, and use AI?
    Real transformation is nonlinear. It includes regression, disorientation, emotional waves. GPT is clean, fast, ordered. Healing is not.

From a brain perspective, change isn’t just about cognitive reframing—it’s about neural rewiring. This happens through repeated, emotionally salient experiences that contradict old patterns. Often, those experiences are uncomfortable. Confusing. Messy. And crucial.

The brain’s default is to conserve energy and stick to known paths—even if those paths are painful. GPT, as a tool, follows those same paths by design. It doesn’t walk with you into the unknown or hold you when everything inside you wants to turn back. Therapy, coaching, and embodied healing spaces do. They help create the safety and repetition required for new neural pathways to form.

And this is really important in regards to hustle, culture, and work and money. Really, really, really, really, really important because what I’m trying to support you do is to return back to the organic, wild rooted version of yourself and stop engaging in hustle or perfectionist culture. That is incredibly important, so we actually need you to feel comfortable with some of the chaos and not try to package it up.

 

But ChatGPT is trying to package it up when you come into coaching with me or, or a therapeutic space that is good. We have space. For the unknown. We have space for not knowing. We have space for sadness, we have space for regret, we have space for safety, and we have space to repeat these things and follow these organic paths that spiral on top of each other.

 

Using ChatGPT for burnout prevention

If you’re curious about this, by the way, I actually have a burnout-prevention ChatGPT bot you can use. She knows my work, my book, my frameworks. I’ve had great feedback from clients. She’s designed around nervous system alignment, somatic therapy, parts work, and emotional protocols. sheridanruth.com/soma

 

Learn more:

 

 

Still Tired on Monday? What Quiet Burnout Might Be Hiding

Why You Might Still Feel Burned Out—Even If You Love Your Job

If you are carrying fatigue and resentment into your Monday morning, even when you technically love your job, this is for you.

Is It Burnout or Just Fatigue? Start by Asking the Right Question

Because the question isn’t:

  • How do I make sure I’m doing something I love so I never feel like I’m working?
  • How do I decrease my workload or manage my stress?

It’s more:

  • What type of weight am I carrying?
  • And which one do I need to pull the lever on first?

What Type of Burnout Are You Carrying?

We carry different types of weight:

  1. Systemic weight
    • Inequities, cost of living, environmental stresses, structures that make life harder for some than others.
  2. Cultural weight
    • Leadership patterns, team dynamics, safety, recognition, feedback culture, career growth support.
  3. Personal weight
    • Your nervous system, emotions, desires, energetic capacity, unique mind-body patterns.

 

Sometimes we think the tension is our boss. Sometimes it’s our own self-doubt. Sometimes it’s both. And sometimes it’s the system itself. No amount of self-care can fix a structural drain.

Monday morning fatigue despite passion for work

Why Rest Isn’t Working Anymore

What I’m inviting you into is a more effective method of inquiry.

If I can help you ask the right questions, you’ll be far more likely to create a role and rhythm that aligns with your nervous system.

Instead of asking, “Why can’t I keep up?”
 Ask, “What is weighing so heavy?”
 And, “What lever needs to be pulled first?”

What If Burnout Isn’t About Doing Too Much?

Before we go deeper, I created a free PDF called Burnout Is Weird. It walks you through 7 real client stories — people with sensitive systems, ADHD, trauma, anxiety, depression — working in entrepreneurship, offices, hybrids. It shares the exact steps we used to help them feel like themselves again. Some of the tools are weird. Some are simple. All of them are deep.

You can download it here:sheridanruth.com/protocol

How Passion Can Mask Capacity Collapse

Because loving your work does not immunize you from feeling fatigued by it.

In fact, being in a role you care about can mask the deeper capacity concerns. Your mind is fast, your heart is big. You see a lot. You want to. But your body? It doesn’t care how passionate you are if you’re carrying unresolved weight.

To reorient, you need energy. And to access energy, you need to tend to the energy you already have. To unstick it. To redirect it.

We feel most aligned and successful when we know we’re using our energy well. When Friday arrives and we’re not totally depleted. When there’s something left for our people. Our passion. Our life.

Let’s talk about that.

What If You’re Not Finishing the Stress Cycle?

Emily and Amelia Nagoski explain this beautifully in their book Burnout: we need to complete the stress cycle.

Stress is meant to move through us in a wave. An activation, a peak, a release.

Think: you saw a bear. You ran. You survived. You cried. You laughed. You hugged your friend. You shook. That’s completion.

Now think about your workday. If you experience a challenge and move through it — you feel proud, satisfied. Maybe a little tired. But not depleted. That’s the wave, complete.

But often, we interrupt the wave.

We rush. We suppress. We dissociate. We pile on tasks. We forget to move, to feel, to release. The wave gets stuck.

And the stuckness turns into burnout symptoms:

  • Monday dread
  • Emotional flatness
  • The weekend isn’t enough
  • Feeling like you’re walking through mud

Can You Feel Emotions Without Getting Stuck in the Story?

To restore, we have to move the energy. Emotion = energy in motion.

I call this emotional alchemy.

Two examples:

Client A felt like she was on autopilot. Brain dead by 5pm. Disconnected from her kids and husband.

We started with the emotional alchemy practice from my book. She learned to tune into her body. To name sensations. To identify the emotion and ask:

  • Do you need to be felt?
  • Do you need to move?
  • Do you need to tell me something?

Often, she found the emotion just needed to be moved. She went to the gym. Played music. Let herself feel.

Sometimes she cried. Sometimes she danced. She didn’t overthink it. She just felt.

And everything changed. Same job. But no longer stuck on autopilot.

Client B felt like no matter what she did, she’d fail. She kept asking for feedback. Kept researching. Kept checking if she was “doing it right.”

Her emotions weren’t just for release — they were pointing to deeper unmet needs: stability, confidence, direction.

So we listened. Honored what the emotions were trying to protect.

She started making decisions from self-trust. Advocated for clearer support. Slowed down on market research. Reconnected with her own expertise.

It wasn’t about fixing. It was about listening differently.

 

What If There’s Nothing to Fix, Just Something to Hear?

Burnout recovery isn’t always about doing more. Or less.

It’s about learning how to ask better questions. And having practices that let the answers land in your body.

What weight are you carrying?

And what’s the first lever you want to pull?

 

 

Grab the free Burnout Is Weird protocol atsheridanruth.com/protocol.

And let me know what opens up for you.

ADHD, HSP, and Trauma Burnout: How to Tell the Difference

ADHD Burnout, HSP Burnout & Trauma Burnout

How to tell the difference

Last week, I caught the eye of my woman at my coworking space, across our cups of tea.
She knew my secret, and I knew hers 😉

Jk, it’s not a secret I just wanted to be a little dramatic. ANYWAY, without saying much, we both knew: you’re neurospicy too.

➡️This story inspired the podcast Is It Really Burnout? Decoding ADHD, Trauma, Nervous System Sensitivity & Recovery 

We started talking about the difference between:

  • burnout from being neurodivergent
  • burnout from having a sensitive nervous system
  • burnout that’s the effect of trauma and anxiety
  • Burnout because life is just too much right now (workload, a season etc). 
Woman considering ADHD burnout, sensitivity or tiredness from trauma

Why is it important to know if your burnout is from neurodivergence, your nervous system, your life season, or trauma?

Because when you know the kind of burnout you’re dealing with, you can put your energy into the kind of fixes and support that will actually work for you.

I’ve been supporting people with anxiety, OCD, sensitivity, chronic illness, complex PTSD, and trauma as a trauma therapist and coach for seven years now. There’s a lot of overlap between burnout types, but there are also clear differences. I think of it like a Venn diagram.

The problem is: when you follow advice that wasn’t made for your specific situation, it can be discouraging, or dangerous. Plus, when you already have so little energy, it’s exhausting to pour it into something that doesn’t work.

So in this podcast episode, I want to help you tell the difference between:

  • ADHD burnout
  • HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) burnout
  • PTSD or trauma-related burnout
  • Situational burnout

And I want you to understand why self-care can help one person but completely backfire for another, so you can start making small, doable changes that meet your body where it is.

What Is Burnout? More Than Just Being Tired

Burnout isn’t just about being tired. Being tired is part of it, but at its core, burnout is being out of rhythm with your natural expression and needs.

 

It shows up differently in each person because we have different wiring, histories, and thresholds. Something easy for me might be really difficult for you — and vice versa.

 

Understanding the difference between burnout types isn’t about putting yourself in a box or giving yourself a diagnosis. It’s about meeting yourself with compassion and understanding so you can stop the anxious spiral of “I have to figure this out” and start asking: If this is my tendency, how can I support myself?

 

ADHD Burnout: Hyperfocus, Crash, and Recovery

 

Nervous system pattern: cycling between hyper and hypo arousal from masking or task-switching.

You might be able to hyperfocus for hours — even a whole day — and feel amazing while doing it. But if you don’t take breaks to breathe, eat, relax your shoulders, sleep well, and speak kindly to yourself, you’ll crash hard afterward.

 

One thing I often work on with neurodivergent clients is learning the signs that they’re at 80% capacity and stopping there, instead of pushing to 100% and then burning out. This is especially important if you take medication, because it can affect emotional regulation and how you connect with your emotions.

Masking and frequent task-switching add another layer — especially because ADHD brains need more effort to switch between tasks, which increases burnout risk.

 

Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Burnout: Sensory and Emotional Overload

HSP stands for Highly Sensitive Person. You might be highly sensitive if you process more sensory and emotional input than others — whether from trauma history, empathy, chronic illness, or simply how you’re wired.

 

Your body processes things more deeply, almost like it’s adding an extra layer of processing to every experience. That means you might pick up on details others miss… but it also means you have to digest more information and emotion.

 

In burnout, this can feel like: “I’ve absorbed everything — noise, emotion, energy — and I’m overwhelmed.”

Supporting this type of burnout often means protecting what comes in (light, noise, conversations) and creating daily practices to offload what you’ve picked up.

 

Trauma-Linked Burnout: Overfunctioning Until Shutdown

This is often linked to complex PTSD. The nervous system pattern here is trauma-driven overfunctioning until shutdown.


You might be holding it all together, people-pleasing, feeling guilty, avoiding boundaries, or being hyper-independent — all as ways to stay safe.


Burnout here is less about a rough week and more about a long-term survival pattern. The collapse often comes when you’re finally alone and your body feels safe enough to stop.


Situational Burnout: When Your Environment Is the Problem


This is caused by sustained stress in your environment.

Taking a holiday might help — but if you go back to the same situation and feel burnt out again

Why Self-Care Helps Some and Backfires for Others


Because “self-care” is different depending on your baseline.

That’s why I teach three core steps:

  1. Safety before clarity — you can’t think your way out of burnout if your body feels unsafe.
  2. Capacity before change — you can’t make changes you’ll sustain if you don’t have the capacity for them.
  3. Strategy only when your system can hold it — otherwise, even the best plan will feel like pressure.

What to do now? 

If this resonates, I have a PDF with practical examples of “resourcefulness in action” for each burnout type. It’s a part of the free burnout recovery guide called Burnout Is Weird. In this free PDF, you’ll meet 7 people who found their way back in ways they didn’t expect, and maybe you will too. 

Don’t know your Human Design? You can look up your chart for free at mybodygraph.com or geneticmatrix.com. You’ll need your exact birth time for accuracy. No need to understand all the pieces yet — I’ll help you make sense of it.

Why Leadership Advice Can Trigger Burnout — And How Human Design + Nervous System Awareness Changes Everything

Why Leadership Advice Can Trigger Burnout

And How Human Design + Nervous System Awareness Changes Everything

Have you ever left a leadership workshop feeling more exhausted than energised — even when the content was good?

 

For women experiencing quiet burnout — still performing at a high level but feeling mentally foggy, emotionally flat, or constantly over-capacity — traditional leadership advice can sometimes make things worse.

 

Your Nervous System Filters Advice First

Before your brain can rationalise new ideas, your body is already running them through a safety check:

  • Is this safe for me?
  • Does this fit my reality?
  • Is this worth my energy?

 

If you’ve been overfunctioning for years, your system may:

  • Absorb urgency and pressure that isn’t yours
  • Reject ideas just to protect you from overwhelm
Woman leaving a leadership workshop feeling depleted from high-functioning burnout

How Human Design Fits In

Human Design offers a map of how you’re wired to receive, process, and act on information. Paired with nervous system awareness, it helps you:

  • Spot when urgency isn’t yours
  • Know when resistance is fear vs wisdom
  • Honour your decision-making rhythm
  • Build capacity so clarity comes naturally
 

Common Patterns:

  • Open root/sacral: You rush because you’ve absorbed someone else’s urgency
  • Emotional authority: You need time to ride an emotional wave before deciding
  • Splenic authority: You need to discern intuition from anxiety
 

The Burnout Connection

Overriding your natural wiring creates a chronic stress response, increasing the risk of physical symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and loss of motivation.

 

A Nervous-System-Led Alternative

When you work with your wiring, you can:

  • Make confident decisions without spiralling
  • Reclaim energy from rest and aligned action
  • Build a role and schedule that reflects your current values and capacity
 

Ready to Explore This Work?

You can start with:

  1. Clarity Intensive — A 90-min session to identify your current capacity and map next steps
  2. 1:1 Coaching — Longer-term support to create a sustainable, burnout-proof role and rhythm.

Don’t know your Human Design? You can look up your chart for free at mybodygraph.com or geneticmatrix.com. You’ll need your exact birth time for accuracy. No need to understand all the pieces yet — I’ll help you make sense of it.

Success Not Happening Fast Enough? Your Period Has The Answer

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Feeling like success is taking too long? Your period holds the key to speeding things up – and I’ll show you how to unlock it. 

By the end of this episode you will know: 

  • How to create more nervous system capacity for success – today 
  • The One thought you can change to afford more of what you want – today 
  • How to experience less anxiety, headaches, or cramps around your period

 

 

Join FLOW: 

Go from overwhelmed and stressed to aligned and thriving with FLOW – the group training. For updated information and to make sure it’s the perfect fit for you DM me FLOW via Instagram www.instagram.com/_sheridanruth_ or by emailing sheridan@sheridanruth.com 

 

FLOW will help you go from 

 

  • Experiencing cramps, migraine and tummy troubles each month… to flowing through your cycle and your period surprised at how it just happened without any pain or discomfort. 
  • Anxiety and second-guessing yourself… to feeling so confident in your inner knowing and your ability to take action with ease to get exactly where you want to be.
  • Riding a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs each month that makes you feel exhausted… to spending more time in pleasant exciting emotions and loving your ability to efficiently extract the wisdom from your difficult emotions, resulting in spending extra energy finding fun hobbies and creations! 
  • Feeling overwhelmed by your todo list and dreading Monday mornings…  to finishing each day having completed your doo list, feeling on track, proud of yourself and able to disconnect and be fully present with your loved ones and hobbies 
  • Relationships that feel like there is constantly something ‘off’, and struggling to manage conflict, set healthy boundaries and know what you want… to more genuine connections with less anxiety and a sense of closeness you didn’t know was possible before. 

4 Ways Smart Female Entrepreneurs Make Money With Ease – Menstrual Cycle 101

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Want to make money with ease? It all starts with syncing your business strategy to your menstrual cycle – and I wish I knew this five years ago.” 

By the end of this episode you’ll know: 

 

  • Why burnout, anxiety, and procrastination are just your body’s way of screaming for attention – and how aligning with your cycle is the answer.
  • How to stop wasting energy on things that don’t matter and start unlocking your body’s natural wisdom to make better decisions.
  • How to avoid the physical, mental, and emotional toll of doing business like a man.
 

 

Join FLOW: 

Go from overwhelmed and stressed to aligned and thriving with FLOW – the group training. For updated information and to make sure it’s the perfect fit for you DM me FLOW via Instagram www.instagram.com/_sheridanruth_ or by emailing sheridan@sheridanruth.com 

 

FLOW will help you go from 

 

  • Experiencing cramps, migraine and tummy troubles each month… to flowing through your cycle and your period surprised at how it just happened without any pain or discomfort. 
  • Anxiety and second-guessing yourself… to feeling so confident in your inner knowing and your ability to take action with ease to get exactly where you want to be.
  • Riding a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs each month that makes you feel exhausted… to spending more time in pleasant exciting emotions and loving your ability to efficiently extract the wisdom from your difficult emotions, resulting in spending extra energy finding fun hobbies and creations! 
  • Feeling overwhelmed by your todo list and dreading Monday mornings…  to finishing each day having completed your doo list, feeling on track, proud of yourself and able to disconnect and be fully present with your loved ones and hobbies 
  • Relationships that feel like there is constantly something ‘off’, and struggling to manage conflict, set healthy boundaries and know what you want… to more genuine connections with less anxiety and a sense of closeness you didn’t know was possible before. 

Increase Productivity, Decrease Anxiety and Increase Income through Structure AND Flow (Achieve Financial Freedom through the Nervous System)

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How can you seamlessly blend flow and structure to boost your productivity and creativity?

 

In this episode, we explore how implementing a balanced approach of structure and flow can help you make fewer decisions, free up mental energy, and stay committed to your goals. Discover practical strategies for creating effective systems in your daily life and business.

I’m answering a question from a client who then messaged me to say : ‘Yes, yesterday I made the decision to work on one of my products right after chanting and eating breakfast. I got into a flow and worked on it for 2 hours without difficulty!’

 

By the end of the episode you will: 

  1. Learn how to establish consistent routines and systems that support your goals.
  2. Understand the importance of committing to decisions to free up mental energy.
  3. Discover techniques for listening to your body’s energy and using it to guide your tasks.

 

Recommended next listen: 

 

138: Why Hyper Independence Leads to More Anxiety, Overworking and a Scarcity Based Mindset – The Downfall of ‘Bossbabe Culture’  


Want to Sustainably Make Money As An Entrepreneur? Try this free embodiment practice. 


TRANSCRIPT:


[00:00:00] So how do you seamlessly blend flow and structure so that you can bruce your productivity, your creativity and ultimately gain income? In this episode, you are going to learn how to establish consistent routines and supports that support your goals. You’re going to learn the one key shift that had my client received this information and then messaged me to say, yesterday I made a decision to work on one of my products right after chanting and eating breakfast and I got into a flow and worked on it for two hours without difficulty.


[00:00:42] Um, you’re going to understand the importance of committing to decisions so that you can free up mental energy, and you’re going to discover a technique for listening to your body’s energy and utilizing it to guide your tasks. This episode is an excerpt from how to sustainably make [00:01:00] money as an entrepreneur.


[00:01:01] That is a training and embodiment practice that you can find below. I will, I will link it down there and yeah, it’s, It’s coming from how I utilize embodiment to understand where I’m going to be most productive for the day and what is the most effective use of my time.


[00:01:20] How I discern between avoidance versus just not helpful right now. And, uh, How I do that so that I can run this business and also just like feel really freaking lit up at night at life and do all of these things, uh, without getting burnt out, even though it’s so easy to do. So go ahead and hit play and down below in the links, I’ll make sure that you have access to how to sustainably make money as an entrepreneur.


[00:01:47] That’s that free training. And if you’re really feeling this and you’re enjoying this information and you would like to listen to another Episode. I would really recommend that you listen to number [00:02:00]138. Why hyper independence leads to more anxiety, overworking, and a scarcity based mindset. Um, I’m going to pop the recording in here now.


[00:02:09] Remember link below, including your recommended next listen and a free embodiment training and practice. . what would it look like to marry flow with structure? So think of structure as the thing that allows the flow to happen. I’m going to try and say this without being angry. The


[00:02:48] way that I would invite you to do it is to make the minimum amount of decisions as possible. So pick a structure for this thing that you’re thinking about. Maybe it’s [00:03:00] your day or your marketing plan or your business pick systems. And a structure pick the things that are going to remain consistent. They don’t have to be the best things.


[00:03:14] They’re just, I’m not making a decision around this anymore. I eat breakfast at 9 AM. It could be like that, or my launch plan is this long,


[00:03:28] or I invest this amount of money that is a structure like


[00:03:35] points where I’m thinking of some that I have, yeah, this is what my day looks like. These are the hours within which, which I work. I don’t work around them. I invest every week because. I invest on a Friday every, every week. And I don’t look at the stock market. I don’t try to time it. I invest every week,


[00:03:57] things that you make the decision, that’s it. And then within [00:04:00]that, when you’ve made those decisions, it’s, it’s commit to the decision. So understand the why behind the decision. Why? Because I feel like I’m going to X, Y, Z, why? Because then I’m free up this amount of energy for other things. Because what we’re looking to do is to free up.


[00:04:14] Energy so that you can find flow so that you can return back. That’s why we have coaching containers. That have a container so that you can be in that container and we free up energy for you to do the deeper work or for you to do the greater creation. So make a decision about the structures that you want, things that are already decided.


[00:04:39] And then within that, don’t argue with yourself. There’s a part of me that’s like, you just have to do it. And it’s really difficult when you just really don’t want to do it. But the honest energy point is like, you just have, you just do it. So return back to what helps you just do it. Why is this important to me?


[00:04:59] [00:05:00] How will this support me? And sometimes it’s just because I said I would, and I care about my commitment to myself. And sometimes it’s more like, well, because I’m going to try this for three weeks and then see what I learn. So I don’t have to do it forever. I’m just going to try it out.


[00:05:18] And then when that flow, like, look at what makes you feel flow left. And that’s where I kind of think that what I was talking to about, like knowing what your body wants in that moment. Like you might have a to do list, but it’s like, okay, what is the energy inside of my body telling me to do? An example of this is on Friday afternoon, I knew that I was going to work until a certain amount of time.


[00:05:39] I had a certain amount of lists of things to do. And I was like, okay, so I have to do these and I have to do these. And two of them, I tend to not want to do. I tend to push them off and like, it’s, it’s Friday done them. And. So when I sat down with the work, I could feel part of [00:06:00]my energy was like, I’m really excited to edit this podcast.


[00:06:05] And I know that I need to do this administration things and I can feel inside of me when I’m avoiding something, it feels like heavy and it feels like I’m avoiding feeling something because I’ve checked in a thousand times and done this. So. What I was able to do was I was said, okay, what are the sensations in my body?


[00:06:29] What is the energy telling me to do? Oh, the energy is telling me to edit the podcast, but I know that I tend to avoid this. Is this an avoidance thing?


[00:06:39] Is this an avoidance thing? Kind of like feel yourself going through it. What would it feel like if I was to do that? What do I get to avoid? And inside of that question, you can ask yourself, am I avoiding feeling something? And you can make a decision based on what you learn. So I actually did choose to do the podcast


[00:07:00] because that was what my energy really wanted.


[00:07:02] Yeah. And it needed to be expressed in that way. That was the most efficient use of the energy in that moment. Other times I’m like, uh, no, you’re just avoiding doing that thing. Cause you know, that it’s going to actually have the results that you want. Like I do that. I’m like, I know this is going to work.


[00:07:20] So I avoid it, put on some music, make it fun, do the thing anyway. So it’s like following that because you’ve already, I’d already decided that’s a task that gets done every week. I don’t know if that speaks to the specifics of what you’re talking about, or if that is helpful. There’s like a thousand, we could do a whole, a whole thing on this.


[00:07:44] So tell me if that’s helpful. 

Why Financially Fierce is the Pathway To Healing Money Trauma – Doors Are Open! (Somatic Pathway to Financially Fierce) 

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Entrepreneur, are you struggling to make a sustainable income without burning out or feeling anxious about money?

In this episode, we explore the intersection of nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and financial empowerment to help you make empowered financial decisions.

 

  1. Learn practical strategies to make confident micro and macro financial decisions.
  2. Heal your relationship with money and reduce anxiety related to financial matters.
  3. Discover scientifically proven tools to create lasting changes in your financial life and overall well-being.
  4.  

Next Steps: 

In Financially Fierce, you will:

  1. Gain clarity on micro and macro financial decisions.
  2. Heal your relationship with money and reduce anxiety.
  3. Learn to make empowered, confident financial choices.
 

Imagine This:

  • In eight weeks, you’ll open your bank account with pride and confidence.
  • In eight months, you’ll inspire your loved ones with your financial success.
  • In eight years, you’ll see your book in stores, your podcast thriving, and your retreats booked out.
 

Our six-part curriculum includes embodiment practices and extensive coaching. You’ll be part of a supportive community of like-minded entrepreneurs, sharing and healing together. This program will transform how you think about money and business, leading to lasting change.

 

 

Ready to start your journey to financial empowerment?

 

DM me “Money Audit” to have a quick conversation about your relationship with money and see if Financially Fierce is the right fit for you. If it’s not, I’ll guide you to other resources.

 

 

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Making a sustainable income as an online entrepreneur does not require overworking sleepless nights or burnout from anxiety about money.  I’m about to show you exactly what it takes to earn a sustainable income where you get more done in less time, reclaim all your work hours to improve your sleep, and then watch your bank account thrive.

 

 

Today’s episode is sponsored by my group program, which is called financially fierce. I’m super excited. We’re starting it soon. 

 

 

It is a place where nervous system regulation meets trauma healing meets financial empowerment, which somatic attachment meets the how we put money into things. And like, and like the logistical things of like, okay, and how, and what are the actual decisions that I make around my money? I noticed a really big gap in the market,  regarding help making decisions around money, being little micro decisions of how much do I expend on this?

 

 

And then macro decisions of like, do I get a job? are not. And Financially Fierce is going to empower you and support you in making those decisions through an understanding of both your nervous system’s attachment patterns to money and what is required inside of your life for you to feel really at home.

 

 

So you’re in the right place. If you identify with any of the following scenarios,  you’ve got some savings and you’ve done pretty well in your career or you’re okay at something, even if your imposter syndrome tells you that you’re not. But this transition. In your life, period of time, your financial life, period of time, perhaps a transition to entrepreneurship or perhaps a different change in circumstances has your jaw really like tensing up when you look at buying things like that really nice pair of shoes that you want or that nice jacket or the trip to X, Y, Z place or the yoga membership that you want. 

 

 

Um, perhaps you hold your breath and you get anxious and you get tense thinking about your credit card. Or perhaps you look back at some of the purchases that you’ve made, perhaps programs, and  you feel kind of Shrunken and sad and annoyed or, or just like ashamed of those investments, particularly ones, if you felt really excited about them because they promised a proven pathway to a quick and rapid results and you didn’t get it. 

 

 

Perhaps you have some savings to invest, but it feels like it would be better to have cash in the bank because the foot could drop at any moment. So you’re procrastinating and the cash is just like depreciating.  And maybe you wake up with a flutter in your chest and racing thoughts of you don’t know what you’re doing. 

 

You don’t own enough to fought that. And then you have to work through all of those emotions for 45 minutes instead of just using that precious time for taking action towards your goals.  

 

 

Perhaps you have a business set up, but sales have dried up and you are running out of motivation and you are getting too nervous to make the changes necessary to close more sales.  And lastly, you may have purchased different courses on skills, but you procrastinate taking them and you haven’t completed one yet  and you’re in this push and pull and this push and pull and it is exciting.

 

 

It’s exhausting and I get it. I’ve been there and I, it’s just tiring. I get it.  Plus you’ve done the courses on business and the podcasts on mindset and you’ve  done therapy for your anxiety and you probably have had a coach and maybe it just fell a little bit flat.  So if you’re coming to this podcast and you’re depleted, I get it. 

 

I hear you, you  haven’t done anything wrong  and I’m not going to promise you a blueprint to success.  What I am going to support you in doing is finding the pathway to your own embodied understanding  and your own  sustainable income. And your own life expression of work.  We’re going to use scientifically proven and effective tools to create lasting changes in how you experience money and your ability to receive, hold, and circulate more with ease. 

 

 

I’m going to be sharing the how  and helping you picture the vision and helping you make a decision and support yourself inside of this podcast.  ,  And at the end, I’m going to extend an invite to you to join financially fierce  because you swore that this year you would stop working yourself to exhaustion.

 

 

You said that you would get your finances on order. You said that you would start saving and you said that you would do something about the tension in your job.  And so a part of you knows that if you delay finding a process that works for you to financial stability without anxiety and overworking,  you’re going to tumble down forward. 

 

 

You’re going to end up in the same place or worse  in six weeks and six months and six years.  However,  if you join Financially Fierce,  by the end of the first eight weeks, you’ll be opening up your bank account while you’re brushing your teeth, tingles running up your chest because you’re so proud.  You’re so proud of that number in there.

 

 

And you’ve been so relaxed and chill about it that you’ve literally had to count the numbers twice.  This has happened to me so many times.  In eight months, you will be basking in the ripple effects of this work. Yes, your saving accounts has grown, but the best part is your loved ones are messaging you with their own celebrations because you inspired them.

 

 

You haven’t had a migraine or a mental health day in months and you have so much levity and energy in your body. You went for a run and Pilates today. In eight years you will be seeing your book at the local bookstore. 

 

Your podcast will hit the 2 million downloads mark.

 

Your retreats will be booked at 12 months in advance and they’ll be flying you over from LA to be guests on some panel.  Those pinch me moments are going to be the norm.  We’re going to do this inside of Financially Fierce.  Because your complex relationship to money is mapped through your nervous system, your attachment cell, and your most subconscious beliefs, meaning that your patterns of working until you burn out or obsessing over planning, how do you make money this year, week, lifetime, or completely avoiding it.

 

And then running away to a tropical Island to never think about money again. They are a result of an unconscious energetic pattern.  Therefore only an untangling and reconfiguration of this pattern  Can support you in changing it so that you have different thoughts,  different emotions,  and different impulses that propel you forward to that sustainable income with ease. 

 

 

We are going to use it using a six part curriculum.  There are going to be six embodiment practices and there is going to be a lot,  a lot  coaching.  You’re going to additionally experience.  Support with other value driven, like minded online entrepreneurs who really want to build businesses that support them financially using the wisdom of their body without sacrificing mental or physical health.

 

 

You’re going to witness these other individuals share their stories and heal  and you’re going to share.  And heal  through being in contact with them. We learned so much by being in these groups, second sessions,  and you’re really going to take advantage of those embodiment practices. There’s something that are difficult to facilitate in a one on one setting.

 

 

They’re impossible to facilitate through a podcast. And so they’re going to help you make real lasting changes in your nervous system, mental patterns, relationships, relations to sales, so that you walk away from our time together, an entirely different way of thinking about money. And both business and financial decisions. 

 

It is really important to me that you feel empowered in this decision making process. And I have facilitated all of the question and answers and all of the things. And I am here to give you information, support you in making the decision and make sure that, yeah, you feel good. So the way that we’re going to do that is you’re going to DM me money audit. 

 

 

When you DM me money audit, you and I are going to have a quick conversation where we’re, I’m going to understand your relationship with money, your current, where you currently are at.  And  then if where you’re at and what you need aligns with the group program, you’ll receive an invite to join. If not, you’ll receive a referral to another resource.

 

 

 

DM me money audit, and I will speak with you in the DMS.  

A Trauma Informed Mediation: The # 1 Essential Somatic Practice for Financial Freedom

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Have you ever felt ashamed or judged yourself for past financial decisions?

 

This short forgiveness meditation will help you release the burden of past financial mistakes and find the change towards financial freedom, ease and confidence around money. 

You will: 

  1. Learn to view your past financial decisions with compassion instead of judgment.
  2. Gain a practical tool to calm your nervous system and reduce financial anxiety.
  3. Start making empowered financial choices that align with your goals and values.

 

 

Next Steps: 

 

Listen to: 

141: Healing From Bad Coaching Investments

 

 

Practice: 

Join the 60 minute EMBODIMENT TRAINING: How To Sustainable Make Money As An Entrepreneur. 

 

DM me FIERCE for a personal invite. 

 

 

Transform: 

Join the GROUP PROGRAM: Financially Fierce  – learn to sustainably make money as an entrepreneur without anxious overworking, sneaky avoidance or complete exhaustion

 

 

DM me MONEY AUDIT. Over a few messages we’ll establish where you need to focus your energy to hold, circulate and receive more money and if that aligns with the group program, you’ll receive an invite to join. If not, you’ll receive a referral to another resource. 

 

 

TRANSCRIPT:

 

[00:00:00] you’re really going to know that this meditation is going to be helpful for you. If you find yourself looking at the past to justify what you could or should do with your money. When we’re doing that, we are often not always coming from a place of dysregulation or fear and , it’s often a sign that we haven’t fully found the wisdom of that experience moving forward.

 

[00:00:43] One of the biggest things that I notice inside of people who are looking to have more empowered relationships around money, maybe make more money, spend more money with more ease, , invest more money, like I’m millionaires, , it is, or not

 

[00:01:00]just maybe like, I don’t Have a little bit more money, go hang out on a ranch, I don’t know, is that we,

 

[00:01:10] we come to this work thinking that we need to fix something about us. We come to this work thinking, Oh, if I just like figure this one thing out and we’ll figure it out. And we’re really harsh on ourselves. And therefore we go into this kind of rumination, we go into, , anxiety, we end up in collapse and our whole bodies get overwhelmed.

 

[00:01:34] And it’s all because we started relating to the decisions that we made around money with pain. Today I’m going to give you an embodiment practice, a meditation that’s going to help you not to do that so that you can take, make change. Whatever way is correct for you right now so that you can change things so that we can efficiently and effectively get you towards the anxiety free and profitable [00:02:00] business and financial freedom that you care about so that we can make social and cultural change.

 

[00:02:06] It’s all intertwined and it all starts with this practice. So take a deep breath. You can listen to this with your eyes open or closed. I would encourage you to listen to the, with them closed, but if you can’t, that’s okay. Just let this kind of seep into you. Let my words seep into you wherever you are and allow it to be enough.

 

[00:02:26] Just taking a deep breath. See if you can breathe into your belly, push your belly out,

 

[00:02:34] breathe into the back of your lower back. So you’re breathing into your lower back. You’re pulling your energy down.

 

[00:02:50] Start softening, maybe releasing your tongue from the top of your mouth, maybe releasing your jaw, softening your eyes. They don’t need to be a certain [00:03:00] way. Pull your shoulders down. It’s safe. We’re going to be here for a few minutes and I’m going to pull you out at the end. It’s okay to just practice softening right now.

 

[00:03:09] Being present. The world will wait. I promise you have time for this. And

 

[00:03:19] so bringing to mind. something that you love. Think about someone or something that you love. Maybe it’s your pet, maybe it’s a niece or a nephew or child, somebody that you really love. And may it be something that is easy for you to love right now. Don’t pick the person that you just had a fight with that you love.

 

[00:03:42] Pick something that’s easy for you to love right now

 

[00:03:48] and see if you can just Picture that in your mind’s eye, feeling the energy of this beautiful, wonderful thing that you love so much. I often picture my cat[00:04:00]

 

[00:04:02] breathing here.

 

[00:04:07] Notice what happens inside of your body. Do you begin to feel love and compassion and empathy and maybe a little bit of warmth? I hope so. Notice it. Maybe there’s a little smile on your face. Maybe you could even create one just to amplify the feeling

 

[00:04:30] breathing here.

 

[00:04:37] See if you can just amplify that feeling of love and compassion. Maybe 5 percent more.

 

[00:04:50] And then you’re going to replace your loved one with a version of you that made a decision around money that you’re not proud of. 100 percent on board with right now. [00:05:00] Maybe it was an investment that you made, maybe it was choosing to even save when you could have spent an investment you didn’t make.

 

[00:05:11] Maybe it was when you were saying your prices on negotiating a percentage of something and in hindsight you wish you’d done it differently. Maybe you trusted somebody

 

[00:05:24] and see if you can keep that same feeling of love

 

[00:05:31] and outside or inside. I want you to just say to this past version of you, I love you. You did the best with the tools that you had and the information that you had. You didn’t do anything wrong.

 

[00:05:52] There’s nothing that you could do or not do that would make me change my opinion of you. I love you.[00:06:00]

[00:06:04] I forgive you.

[00:06:09] And I’m sorry,

[00:06:14] using your own words, I’m going to repeat some inspiration for you, but use your own words. Trust yourself here, repeating at the pace that is supportive for you. I forgive you. I love you.

[00:06:32] I’m sorry.

[00:06:37] You did the best you could with the tools you had.

[00:06:44] We’ve learned so much. You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s okay.

[00:06:53] You did the best you could with the tools you had. We’ve learned so much. You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s [00:07:00] okay.

[00:07:05] I love you.

[00:07:10] Thank you.

 

[00:07:19] Maybe just asking this past version if there’s anything else that needs you to feel, needs you to know,

 

[00:07:26] anything that would feel loving, that would make it feel loved. As you move outside of this practice, as you continue throughout your day,

 

[00:07:39] let it know that we’re going to be making new decisions around money. Now, we’re going to base them on the understanding that there is nothing wrong with us. We deserve support. We make good decisions and everything we want is just there waiting for us. We don’t have to change who we are. And[00:08:00]

 

[00:08:02] when you, when this part understands that that’s what we’re moving towards every day, a little bit more, Give your body a little shake. Open your eyes if you had them closed. Just come forward. This is it. You can return to this practice a million times. My encouragement for you is to really focus on understanding that every day is a new day.

 

[00:08:30] Pick something different today. Learn from your past. But don’t judge yourself for it. Don’t shame yourself. Don’t criticize yourself for it. You didn’t do anything wrong. You’ve never done anything wrong. You’ve never been wrong. Maybe there are certain things you had the experience like, Oh, okay. I’ll probably do that different now.

 

[00:08:48] Now that I have this information, I would do that difference, but that’s totally normal and fine. A lot of us have a lot of pain around, like, making mistakes or picking the wrong[00:09:00] thing. I think this comes a lot from our childhood, in my experience, witnessing it in other people, also experiencing it.

 

[00:09:07] I’m a three, six projector. I don’t know if you guys know in human design, that means I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but I was also taught that it was a really bad idea to make mistakes, but mistakes are how I learn. And so I would cost need to make mistakes and then judge myself a lot for them. And yeah, it’s a rough place to be, but mistakes and having an ability to fail is what’s going to help you become the most successful entrepreneur that you could possibly be and have the most ease as you’re doing it, less kind of baggage.

 

[00:09:39] It is essential. If there’s nothing more essential than the ability to fail forward as an entrepreneur, these practices help you. actually do that instead of just think about how you’re going to do that and conceptualize it. This is the how I really recommend that you come back in a couple of [00:10:00]days and that you check out a episode number 141, which is called healing from bad coaching investments.

 

 

 

 

[00:10:07] We’re going to look at a case study of how we can heal from these past investments that haven’t gone the way that we wanted so that we can continue moving. Sending you so much love and I’ll speak with you soon.