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E2: Burnout, resilience, and what they don’t tell you in grad school.
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🎙️ Episode 2: Burnout, Resilience, & What They Don’t Tell You in Grad School
Podcast: Burnout & Bullsht: Real Stories from the Mental Health Field*
🧠 Keywords: burnout, mental health, social work, resilience, education, graduate school, self-care, therapist life, trauma, over-functioning, healthcare
📖 Description:
Before the license. Before the letters after your name.
Burnout starts when you’re chasing trauma papers across a stranger’s yard, working 30 hours a week, and pretending a concussion is no big deal.
In this episode, Kayla Schubert-Wirth, LCSW and EMDR trainer, shares her unfiltered story of surviving undergrad and grad school in the mental health field. From unpaid internships and academic pressure to untreated health crises and impossible expectations, she breaks down how burnout begins long before your first paycheck.
This one’s for the grad students, interns, and early-career therapists who are drowning in over-functioning and calling it passion.
💥 You’ll Learn:
• Burnout doesn’t wait for licensure—it starts in school
• Unrealistic expectations destroy nervous systems
• You’re replaceable at work—but not at home
• Health matters more than hustle
• Self-advocacy is a survival skill in helping professions
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – The Journey to Resilience
02:23 – Burnout Before the Paycheck
05:11 – The Chaos of Grad School
07:36 – When Health Collapses
10:24 – Early Career Red Flags
12:37 – Lessons from the Breakdown
💌 Got your own “what the actual fuck” story from the field?
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