🎧 Episode 31 (Season 2): Burnout Is Not a Personality FlawWhy High-Capacity People Break Down First

Season 2 of Fire Your Doctor continues with a hard truth many driven, capable people need to hear: burnout is not a character issue—it’s a biological one.

In this episode, Dr. Dani Lockwood and Richard Lockwood unpack why leaders, caregivers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, and faith-driven individuals are often the first to burn out. This isn’t about weakness, poor mindset, or lack of discipline—it’s about how the nervous system responds to prolonged stress without recovery.

If you feel exhausted despite “doing everything right,” this conversation will help you understand what your body is actually asking for.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why high-capacity people burn out first

• Burnout as a nervous system survival response, not failure

• The roles of cortisol, adrenaline, and mitochondrial shutdown

• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn in everyday life

• Why exhaustion can worsen after exercise

• The difference between rest and collapse

• Why boundaries are biological protection, not selfishness

• How identity, productivity, and faith can become tangled

• What real recovery actually requires

  
  

  ✝️ Spiritual Insight

Mark 6:31 (NIV, pre-2020)

“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

Exodus 18:17–18 (ESV)

“What you are doing is not good… you will certainly wear yourselves out.”

God designed limits not to restrain us—but to sustain us. Rest is not a reward for collapse; it’s a requirement for longevity.

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