The burnout nobody sees because it looks like accomplishment
That chronic stress and exhaustion you've been calling productivity? Let's talk about what's actually happening.
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Some things to hold on to.
Burnout in high-performing women does not look like a breakdown. It looks like a full calendar, a smile at the school gate, and quietly running on fumes while you keep delivering.
In this episode Andi shares why women who are good at things are the last ones to see it coming, what the three signs actually feel like from the inside, and why one of them is so unlike who you are that it will probably stop you in your tracks.
She also gets into why managing the stressor is not the same as completing the stress, and what that difference means for everything you have been carrying in your body.
This episode will not ask you to fix your schedule. It will ask you to notice where you actually are.
Can I ask you something before we get into it today? And I really want you to be honest with yourself, even if just for a second. That moment last week, or maybe it was last month, or maybe honestly it was this morning, when you snapped at your child about something small. Something that on any other day wouldn't have even registered. Do you really think it was about that thing? Or do you think it was something else entirely? I ask because I had a moment like that with my youngest daughter. We call her the spill monster, and I say that with so much love, genuinely, because this child has a truly remarkable gift for redistributing any liquid within her reach onto any available surface.
And I want to be honest with you. There was one specific evening where I really snapped. Not a firm word. Not a calm redirect. The kind of reaction that surprises even you while it's happening. And then it was over, and she's looking at me, and I just felt it immediately. That guilt. That specific, awful guilt of, she is little. It was a cup of something. In that moment, I knew. It wasn't about the spill. It was never about the spill. My tank was completely empty. And the spill was just the thing that landed on top of an already overloaded system. I was burnt out. I just didn't know it yet.
In this episode.
Five minutes to reconnect with what your body has been trying to tell you.
Find a comfortable seat. Put your phone down. You don't have to do anything else right now.
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