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Healing Burnout: Why More Healing Might Be Making You Worse
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Healing is meant to restore you, not drain you. If you've ever felt like healing became another task on your to-do list or felt guilty for taking a break, this episode will explain the emotional and physiological cost of turning healing into a full-time job. Healing burnout is real and often confused with resistance. I share my own story of burnout and how it reshaped my relationship with rest, play, and flow as an adult.
The truth is, constant self-improvement can make it more difficult to liberate yourself and reclaim your wholeness. In this episode, you'll learn how our nervous systems log even emotional labor—like shadow work, inner child healing, and trauma healing—as stress. We'll also discuss the misunderstood value of joy. It's not a reward for healing; it is the mechanism for healing itself.
This episode explains why integration, simplicity, and presence are foundational for preventing and recovering from healing burnout. We also explore emotional hypervigilance, the neuroscience behind why your body needs rest to heal, and how to finally give yourself permission to stop striving and start living. Wholeness, peace, and joy are not distant goals, but states you’re allowed to claim right now.
What We Explore ↓
- Healing burnout and emotional exhaustion
- The myth of constant self-improvement
- Why joy is a healing mechanism, not a reward
- The neuroscience of emotional labor and stress
- Emotional hypervigilance vs. true self-awareness
- Reclaiming simplicity, rest, and play as medicine
- Shifting from performance to coherence in healing
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Chapters
1. Healing Burnout: Why More Healing Might Be Making You Worse (00:00:00)
2. Healing does not need to be a lifelong struggle (00:04:29)
3. My personal story of burnout (00:07:00)
4. The true root of healing burnout (00:11:52)
5. Integration and nervous system regulation (00:17:37)
6. Inner child healing through joy (00:25:28)
7. Shifting from striving to simplicity (00:33:22)
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