High-achieving women tie self-worth to constant productivity, never showing weakness or celebrating wins. The speaker worked ten client sessions daily while pregnant, then got a cancer diagnosis with 5% survival odds. She argues for resetting your life before burnout forces a crisis.
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Burnout. Why does it impact women so specifically? Hey, we're way too achievement-focused, right? So we need to be needed, we need to accomplish, and we get our value that way. I 1,000% agree. I've got to be more, I've got to be more. So I crossed this finish line and now I got to go. Goalpost. And we don't give ourselves time to celebrate as women. So we have this responsibility to not be weak. We have this responsibility to have it together and for nobody to know that we're not fine, that we're not okay. We're not regulated. Keep pushing through. And you don't need to get sick or to have life hit you or have a breakdown to force your hand to reprioritize. You could do this beforehand as preventative. Yes, you do not need breakdown to break through. I don't care what anybody else says. Wow. You don't. That's a big, that's a big statement to say. And that almost killed me, quite literally. Like getting external validation? I ended up with a 5% chance to live and a cancer diagnosis because I was working and doing 10 client sessions a day. Oh my God. 7 days a week. With a 6-month waitlist, and I thought I was crushing it. And that achievement paradigm I was living through almost killed me. I got pregnant, I got diagnosed, and I lived my practice of emotional healing to save my life and gave up achievement paradigms forever. How good for you. This is personal to me. Achievement. And then the other major source of burnout for women is emotional dysregulation. I'm in that too. Okay, but it's our emotional dysregulation and We don't know how to not be impacted by other people's emotional dysregulation. The empathic part of us, okay, that's really hard. Yes, and if they're not happy or okay, how could we be happy or okay? Right, right, there's no separation at all. Yes. Great points.
