01/12/2024
EXTINGUISH BURNOUT FOR GOOD WITH INNER WORK 🧯
What would it be like to trust that your wisdom, deep presence, and a strong relationship to your inner self is enough?
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I’m seeing an epidemic in coaching and consulting, especially “burnout coaching,” where highly-accomplished, helping professionals are still buying into societal standards that lead to burnout.
Even the coaches themselves.
I’m seeing it everywhere, from masters-prepared professionals to PhDs and MDs. Professionals who are at the “top” in education, career success and typically have the skills to lead, that still don’t trust themselves when it comes to transitioning from their acquired strengths to a new strength. I just saw a local ad for a PhD who had four certifications for coaching?!?!
It makes me want to run 🏃🏻♀️
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Getting clear in our second stage in life requires un-learning, deconstructing and carving out the truth of who you really are. Not adding more certifications to your already bloated resume. It is a distraction from you and the deeper work you are here to create. And if you are interested in serving others as a helper, healer, mentor or teacher, it is a distraction for those you help who also are facing an epidemic of not trusting themselves.
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LET'S BREAK THE CYCLE 🔗
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What would it be like to remember that your previous education is the cherry on top to who you really are and you can stop the endless achievement and proving cycle NOW?
What would it be like to strengthen in your relational work (which is actually the secret sauce to all biz, career and any heartfelt “success”) by getting support to increase your own capacity to have deep vulnerability and intimacy first with yourself?
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What would it be like to then have the audacity to show up as YOU and break the proving cycle that is rampant in our society and that is a large part of the epidemic of burnout for high achievers, particularly in highly-educated helping fields?
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What if you could trust yourself? Now. Exactly as you are.
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If you are a high-achieving, helping professional who is burned out and considering moving to another field, particularly “coaching and consulting” as the solution, don’t invest another dollar into a 5-10 step “solution,” “method,” or “program.”
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You are beyond that kind of work.
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Your unique gifts are your medicine. You are here to integrate your wisdom, not fall for another cookie-cutter approach from another caged-in industry (with worse struggles than the traditional industries for sure) that promises relief from burnout.
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Burnout is a complex struggle and all the coaches who are promising you that when you leave one industry you’ll find peace because you make more money, are the boss, or some other promise, ARE NOT exploring the deep inner work that is foundational to an anti-burnout, full-vitality life! Making more money and being your own boss are wonderful but they will actually heighten burnout if it is coming from an internal struggle.
Entrepreneurs are notorious for high rates of burnout. Getting to the root cause of burnout has to do with your relationship to yourself.
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How do I know all of this? Because I lived it. I never was burned out as an employee, I had killer boundaries and great self care. Even as I became an entrepreneur, my boundaries and self-care were impeccable. I knew about my risk for burnout and created protective mechanisms.
What I wasn't the best at was exploring my own vulnerability, my own avoidance of intimacy with myself and falling under the spell that to stay cooperative and within the system was actually cowardice to my higher knowing.
As the famous phrase reminds us, “the only way out, is through.”
If this aligns with what you haven’t yet put into words for yourself, I’d love to invite you to my 4-day VIA Experience where I explore the power of vulnerability, intimacy and the audacity to be you and help others from this conscious objection to the ways of the world that do not serve anyone who has a heart and soul.
I’d love to see you there!
Link in the comments below ⚡
