You know better—but you’re still pushing past your limits.

You’ve read the books. You’ve blocked off the calendar. You know what to do.

But somehow, the burnout keeps creeping back in.

Sound familiar?

This week on Alive & Well, we’re talking about a tough truth:
Sometimes, the very habits that make you high-performing are the same ones burning you out.

In this episode, I’m sharing 6 things I stopped doing in order to actually heal my nervous system—not just manage stress better on the surface.

These are subtle but powerful shifts I made after my own burnout in 2017—and they’ve changed the way I live, work, and lead.

You’ll learn:

🔹 How hustle patterns are often rooted in nervous system dysregulation
🔹 Why high-functioning women get rewarded for being in survival mode
🔹 What it means to create safety in your body instead of just checking another box

We’ll cover:

✔️ The link between people-pleasing and fawn responses
✔️ Why pushing through fatigue wires your body against rest
✔️ How morning phone-checks hijack your neurochemistry
✔️ What it takes to decouple productivity from self-worth
✔️ How joy helps rewire your nervous system for sustainability

These aren’t rigid rules or one-size-fits-all fixes. They’re nervous-system-aware, body-based pivots that support your capacity long term.

💡 Because healing burnout isn’t about doing less.

It’s about doing it from a regulated, rooted place.

Related Episodes to Explore:

• Previous Episode
• 4 Game-Changing Strategies for Nervous System Regulation
• 4 Overlooked Symptoms of Dysregulation That Aren’t Actually “Normal”
• 5 Daily Habits That are Dysregulating Your Nervous System
• Overwhelm, Brain Fog, and Irritability? 10 Ways a Dysregulated Nervous System Shows Up in Your Body
• 5 Somatic Techniques to Regulate When You're Feeling Overwhelm

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You’re showing up, but inside, you’re unraveling.

You’re getting the work done. Smiling when you’re supposed to. Even squeezing in the workouts and the meetings and the meal prep.

But if you’re honest? You’re running on fumes.

This is burnout—but not the collapse-on-the-bathroom-floor kind.

This is high-functioning burnout. The invisible kind. The kind that simmers quietly in high-achieving women until everything starts to feel like too much.

In this episode of Alive & Well, I’m walking you through my nervous-system-first approach to healing chronic stress that doesn’t ask you to hustle harder or download another planner.

You’ll learn:
🔹 Why burnout is a biological process, not a personal failure
🔹 How your nervous system gets stuck in survival—and what to do about it
🔹 The role of allostatic load, chronic stress, and hidden trauma in burnout
🔹 The 4 shifts that help you stop surviving and start recovering

We’ll cover:
✔️ How performing your worth keeps you in sympathetic overdrive
✔️ Why rest isn’t optional (and how to reclaim it even when it feels unsafe)
✔️ What fawning and people-pleasing have to do with burnout
✔️ Why reconnecting to your body is the most effective path out

If you’re tired of white-knuckling your way through life, this episode will give you a new framework for understanding burnout—and a real plan to move through it.

💡 Because you don’t need more discipline. You need more safety.
And that starts in your body.

Related Episodes to Explore:

• Previous Episode
• Ignoring What Your Body is Trying to Tell You? Pay Attention to These 10 Warning Signs of Burnout
• Tired, Anxious, and Overwhelmed? The Step-by-Step Process to Heal Burnout and Regulate Your Nervous System
• 5 Signs of Mom Burnout and How to Start Healing
• Unlocking Burnout Recovery: 3 Reasons Time Off Isn't Enough
• From Burnout to Balance: Introducing RESTORE and my 6-Step Framework to Reset Your Nervous System and Beat Burnout

👇 Ready to stop the spiral? Download the Nervous System Reset Guide and start building your burnout recovery toolkit today.

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When your stress is off the charts, the last thing you need is vague advice and zero follow-through.

What you do need? Tools that actually work—with the science to back them.

In this episode of Alive & Well, we’re unpacking four body-based techniques that regulate your nervous system in real time.

These are somatic tools, rooted in neuroscience, that help you shift out of chronic stress—without needing to book a retreat or download another meditation app you’ll never open.

We’ll start with the why—what happens in your brain and body when you’re stuck in stress mode—and then I’ll walk you through four simple, powerful techniques to bring your system back to safety.

You’ll learn:
🔹 Why traditional stress relief doesn’t work when your nervous system is dysregulated
🔹 How bottom-up regulation works (and why your body leads, not your brain)
🔹 What “the vagus nerve” has to do with calm, clarity, and healing
🔹 How to use somatic tools to create real relief—not just temporary escape

Then, we’ll dive into four practical tools that you can start using this week.

We’ll cover:
✔️ The physiological sigh – a 10-second breath pattern to interrupt anxiety
✔️ Shaking – a natural discharge tool to release stress from your body
✔️ Weighted input – how deep pressure signals safety to your brain
✔️ Cold therapy – using the dive reflex to calm the fear center

If your body feels like it’s stuck in survival mode—or you just need something that works when the overwhelm hits—this episode will give you practical, science-backed ways to shift out of stress and back into regulation.

Related Episodes to Explore:

• Previous Episode
• 3 Ways to Show Your Body It’s OK to Relax & Be Calm
• Are You Dysregulated? 10 Surprising Signs of Nervous System Dysregulation
• 4 Overlooked Symptoms of Dysregulation That Aren’t Actually “Normal”
• 5 Daily Habits That are Dysregulating Your Nervous System
• 3 Popular Wellness Trends That Might Be Dysregulating Your Nervous System

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>>> 💌 DOWNLOAD THE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET GUIDE 💌 <<<