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Nicki Kuurman - The Practical Mystic Helping women shift their state and change their story. Practical Mystic ✨ Soul Guidance
🎙 Host of The Practical Mystic Podcast.

19/04/2026

One of the most misunderstood stages of burnout is the second one.
Not the breakdown — the stage before it.

Where everything is high energy, high output, high stress — and it just feels normal.
You're getting things done.
You feel capable.
You feel like you can handle it.
But the hypervigilance is running constantly.

The chemicals are overloaded.
And you are getting closer and closer to the edge of the cliff.

This is the stage where most people don't ask for help — because they don't think they need it yet.

✨ Full episode out now.

Shift your state. Change your story.

17/04/2026

The cognitive load of being the reliable one — the one who coordinates, remembers, holds it all — is not just exhausting.

It can be deeply, quietly lonely.

Because when you're the one who's always holding everything together, there's no room for anyone to hold you.

No one can get in.

In this episode, I share something personal about my own experience with hypervigilance and what it took to finally let that guard down.

If you're carrying more than you should be carrying alone — this one's for you.

✨ Full episode out now.

Shift your state. Change your story.

17/04/2026

You don't have to change everything overnight.

And you definitely don't have to punish yourself for slipping up — because what we're doing here is unwinding old patterns. Old beliefs. And that takes time.

Here's the shift I want you to start with:

Just ask yourself: "Is this mine to hold?"

That one question? It's enough to start pulling old patterns out of your subconscious and bringing them forward where your brain can actually do something with them.

Your mind will start looking for new solutions. It will start noticing the patterns as they arise, rather than being swallowed by them.

That's where the real change begins. Not in perfection. In awareness.

If this landed for you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. 💛

From The Quick Shift...
Link in bio.

15/04/2026

The cognitive load of being the reliable one,
the one who coordinates, remembers, holds it all..

Is not just exhausting.
It can be deeply, quietly lonely.

Because when you're the one who's always holding everything together, there's no room for anyone to hold you.

No one can get in.

In this episode, I share something personal about my own experience with hypervigilance and what it took to finally let that guard down.

If you're carrying more than you should be carrying alone — this one's for you.

✨ Full episode out now.

Shift your state. Change your story.

14/04/2026

One of the most common patterns I see...

Is women who give everything to everyone around them and almost nothing to themselves.

And the thing is, energy doesn't work that way.

We cannot sustain giving from a depleted system.

But when we're full — aligned, resourced, connected — we can give endlessly without running dry.

The question isn't whether to give.

It's whether you're giving to yourself first.

✨ Full episode out now.
https://youtu.be/OR0-NgzNmdM

Shift your state. Change your story.

13/04/2026

Nobody gets it right 100% of the time.

Some of us lean into holding, trying, controlling...
Doing everything we possibly can.

Others are more easygoing, more fluid — and get labelled as not pulling their weight.

But what if neither is wrong?

What if it's all just perception?

So much of the pressure we carry around "doing it right" isn't ours — it's social conditioning we absorbed somewhere along the way.

And recognising that is the first step to putting some of it down.

✨ Full episode out now. https://youtu.be/fglRszDBjG0

Shift your state. Change your story.

The Practical Mystic Podcast is live.This is where we explore what’s really going on beneath the surface —and how to shi...
13/04/2026

The Practical Mystic Podcast is live.

This is where we explore what’s really going on beneath the surface —
and how to shift it in a way that actually lands.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or quietly holding it all together…
this space will meet you there.

🎧 You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube

Links in comments.

12/04/2026

The mental load isn't just the doing.
It's the knowing.
The tracking.
The holding.
Who has the next dentist appointment? When do the school shoes need replacing?
What size comes next?

All of that thinking, all of that coordinating, living constantly in one person's mind...

It doesn't show up on a to-do list.
It doesn't get acknowledged in a meeting...

But it is one of the most exhausting things a person can carry — and one of the most overlooked.

✨ Full episode out now. https://youtu.be/fglRszDBjG0

Shift your state. Change your story.

12/04/2026

You’re not tired because of your to-do list.

You’re tired because of what your mind hasn’t let go of.

The overthinking.
The analysing.
The replaying.

Going over the same things again and again.

That’s what’s exhausting.

Not what you did today…
but what you’re still carrying from it.

Sometimes the most powerful shift isn’t doing less.

It’s allowing your body to release what’s already done.

11/04/2026

We reach for words like "anxious" but sometimes what we're really feeling is scared.

And scared is normal.
Scared makes sense.

In this clip, a reframe that takes the pressure off: you don't have to excavate every story from your past to move through fear.

You just have to acknowledge what's arising.

Sometimes the simplest shift is the most powerful one.

The Practical Mystic Podcast.
✨ Full episode out now — link in bio.

09/04/2026

Burnout isn’t always about doing too much.
It’s about how much we’re holding.

Holding responsibility that may not be ours.
Holding emotions.
Holding expectations.
Holding things together for other people.

And even holding ourselves to a certain standard —
what it means to be a good partner, a good mother, a good human.

That’s a lot.

So we stay braced.
Armoured.
On.

And often defensive.
Not just of what we’re carrying…
but of what we’re not putting down.

And over time, that’s what pulls us out of the present moment.

Not because we’re doing too much —
but because we’re still holding too much.

From The Quick Shift.
Link in bio.

09/04/2026

That feeling of I cannot take one more thing.

It's not the next problem to fix.
It's not a scheduling issue.
It's not you being weak.

It's your alignment pattern reaching its limit.

And what has worked for you in the past?
It may simply no longer be working.

That's not failure.
That's a signal worth listening to.

✨ Full episode out now.. Link in bio.

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