Growing up, I was hyper-focused on doing the “right thing” and being seen as “successful.”
In college, I spent hours hunched over my tiny dorm room desk with sweaty palms and a tightness in my chest, scrolling through lists of student clubs, thinking, “I need my resume to look more impressive.”
🖤 My heart was in the right place, but my stress levels were through the roof.
💻 When I got my dream job working in corporate sustainability, I thought I had ✨made it!✨
My perfectionist tendencies and my frantic hours spent hunched over my laptop, perfecting my resume, had finally paid off. 🧠 I was surrounded by brilliant people, working with some of the biggest companies in the world, solving the world's biggest problems.
And (not to brag), but I was killing it! I dove in headfirst, volunteering for as many projects as I could...But as I started to stack up bigger responsibilities, my old perfectionist tendencies crept back in.
🌪️ When I shut my laptop at the end of the day, my body was exhausted and my mind was still online, spinning with worries about client emails and deadlines. I couldn’t turn it off, even when I tried. The tightness in my chest had grown to a nagging pain, like I was stuck in a vice grip.
I tried to do all the "right things" - I was in talk therapy, I exercised, I journaled every morning, I went on an SSRI - nothing seemed to get to the root of what I was experiencing.
It seemed like everyone around me was holding it together, and I wasn’t.
💔 On the outside, I looked successful, but on the inside, I knew I needed a change.
For YEARS, I had been living in a burnt-out body, operating with a burnt-out brain...
That realization sparked a journey that taught me about myself and about burnout...I hired a mindset coach to address my burnt out brain...I worked with somatic therapists and coaches to heal my burnt out body...and I became a lifestyle design and habit-formation master to change my environment.
🤍 I decided that burnout would no longer be a part of my success equation.
Slowly but surely, as my internal world changed, my external world started to change too - I got a raise, I got a new job, I started a business of my own, I learned how to rest while maintaining success, and all along the way, I healed parts of myself through many permutations of burnout.
Once I became a coach, it clicked for me I had been trying to solve small pieces of the burnout puzzle for years, wondering why I didn't feel "healed." But there are actually 7 Types of Burnout I needed to address - without knowing which Type I was facing, I was just throwing darts at the problem, hoping one would hit the bullseye. It became obvious to me how much time and energy people waste trying to figure out how to handle stress, anxiety, and dissatisfaction on their own...so I built my coaching programs to shortcut that process.
With the right strategy - and a guide you trust - it’s absolutely possible to create a life that lights you up every single day.