Shien Victoria Zutshi

21/12/2025

When Grace Meets Ingenuity: A Return to Abrielle

Last weekend’s birthday brunch began with stepping out into the bitter cold and a pounding headache but we were determined to festively embrace my favourite season after these last few months. Remember over the last few months, I have been in recovery from the concussion to a now recent diagnosis of Graves Disease and thus, have been relegated to meals from Ubereats or the air fryer alongside outings to medical tests, my GP’s office and subsequent specialist visits and just resting all the while feeling demotivated and a bit railroaded as this year had taken a turn I did not expect....

Last weekend’s birthday brunch began with stepping out into the bitter cold and a pounding headache but we were determined to festively embrace my favourite season after these last few months. Reme…

02/12/2025

The Death of Self: Why Shedding Old Beliefs Is the Beginning of Becoming Real

Most people think reinvention is about becoming someone shiny and new. In reality, the deepest form of growth comes from letting parts of you die — the outdated identities, inherited expectations, coping strategies, and belief systems that once protected you but now quietly suffocate you. This is the death of self.This quiet, necessary shedding of elder identities. We don’t talk about this enough but the symptoms are everywhere manifesting in Burnout.Restlessness.Dissociation.Overachievement. A chronic sense of “I’m performing a life that doesn’t feel like mine.” And the data supports it:...

Most people think reinvention is about becoming someone shiny and new. In reality, the deepest form of growth comes from letting parts of you die — the outdated identities, inherited expectations, …

26/11/2025

Knowing yourself means your commitment to clarity. It is easier to come back to yourself when you are immersed in the self work. Buy my book Anxious & Ambitious. Book a session with me. Join the network!

I’ve been thinking a lot about rest and leadership lately. After the accident, there was a stretch of time where I found I was questioning myself. My focus, my values, even the part of me that has …

17/11/2025

Why High Achievers Lose Their Edge

And How to Rebuild a Life That Can Actually Hold Your Ambition Most high achievers aren’t struggling because they lack talent, discipline, or vision. They’re struggling because their life architecture no longer matches the size of their ambition. It is the overwhelming confusion of something feeling not quite right even when it feels like it should be. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed the same pattern across my interviews and interactions with entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, educators, and first-generation professionals like myself:...

And How to Rebuild a Life That Can Actually Hold Your Ambition Most high achievers aren’t struggling because they lack talent, discipline, or vision. They’re struggling because their life architect…

17/08/2025

⚡️ Where your energy goes, your life grows.

I learned this the hard way. I mean, look what happened in Paris the other day. When I poured everything into career, the rest of my wheel ran on fumes — relationships, clarity, even physical health.

The Wheel of Balance showed me this instantly: the overfed categories, the undernourished ones.

And here’s the science: attention is a limited resource. Psychologists call it cognitive load — the more one area drains you, the less energy you have left for the rest.

💡 Try this for your Sunday reset:
1. Circle the category that’s getting ALL your energy right now.
2. Circle the one running on empty.
3. Ask: what’s one action I can take this week to rebalance them?

✨ Balance isn’t about doing everything at once — it’s about redirecting your energy where it matters most.

👉 Save this post for your reset.
👇 Comment: Which category is overfed for you right now?