The Hidden Role of Anger in Burnout, Hormones, and Nervous System Dysregulation with Kim Paull

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In today’s episode, I’m joined by burnout recovery and resilience coach, Kim Paull, to talk about one of the most misunderstood emotions for high-achieving women: anger.

We unpack how suppressed anger, resentment, and misaligned work quietly fuel burnout, hormone imbalances, and nervous system dysregulation and how learning to work with your anger can actually become a portal to freedom, creativity, and sustainable success.

Kim brings a trauma-informed, somatic, neuroscience-backed lens to anger and burnout, and we explore how this shows up specifically for driven, high-performing women who were raised to be “good girls” and stay nice, quiet, and accommodating…even as their bodies are screaming “no.”

In this episode, we dive into:

• Anger as a burnout symptom; why anger is often the missing emotion we don’t associate with burnout but absolutely should
• The difference between healthy anger and reactive rage, and how anger is a motivating, protective emotion when your needs, values, or boundaries are violated
• The 3 ways high-achieving women typically deal with anger
• How people-pleasing, perfectionism, and conflict avoidance can actually be signs of repressed anger
• The physical signs of stored anger in the body, jaw tension, TMJ, IBS, gut issues, chronic muscle tightness, exhaustion, “mystery” symptoms
• Why you can burn out working 2 hours a week if what you’re doing is misaligned with your values (spoiler: it’s not about hours, it’s about energetic cost)
• How women are socialized to see anger as unprofessional, unwomanly, or unsafe, and how that conditioning impacts our health, hormones, and relationships
• The connection between anger, grief, and identity loss in burnout, and why sadness, lethargy, and constant tears can actually be anger in disguise
• Simple, science-backed practices to move anger through your body without dumping it on your kids, partner, or team (hello: DBT tools, breath, movement, and somatic release)
• Kim’s self-compassion framework for high achievers who want to grow, heal, and stay in the game without their inner critic running the show

You’ll walk away with:

• A totally new, empowering understanding of anger as a messenger
• Practical tools to recognize when you’re suppressing or repressing anger before it turns into burnout, resentment, or shutdown
• Body-based practices you can use in real time when you feel yourself seeing red, snapping, or shutting down
• Permission to stop labeling yourself as “too emotional” or “too sensitive” and start listening to what your body and emotions are trying to tell you

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