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This episode explores why burnout isn’t always caused by doing too much and why rest alone often doesn’t fix the exhaustion so many high-achieving women feel. Kathleen shares a deeply personal reflection on how long-term survival mode keeps the nervous system on high alert, even when life appears stable or successful.

Through lived experience, she explains how unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and emotional hypervigilance can create mental fatigue, overwhelm, and shutdown, especially during moments of growth or success. What feels like burnout may actually be the body responding to unfamiliar safety, expansion, or change.

Rather than pushing harder, this conversation invites listeners to slow down, listen to their nervous system, and allow regulation to come before productivity. Healing begins when safety is restored, patterns are understood, and the body is no longer forced to perform from fear.

This episode offers insight, validation, and a compassionate reminder: you are not broken, behind, or failing, your system has been protecting you. And with awareness, support, and gentle practices, it can learn to rest again.

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