#96 - Breaking the Patterns We Pass to Our Children: Burnout, Perfectionism, and Rewiring Your Mind- Laura Styles

For 14 years, Laura Styles was an executive PA. Then motherhood became her turning point. Her first child's crying triggered something deeper than exhaustion — it exposed patterns she'd been running on autopilot since childhood. She knew she couldn't parent the way she wanted until she addressed what was happening beneath the surface.So she retrained as a hypnotherapist. Now she helps high-achieving, heart-led mums rewire old patterns, break free from burnout, and stop just "getting through the day." In this episode, we get into:→ Why 95% of your decisions run on childhood autopilot→ The patterns we unknowingly pass to our children: perfectionism, burnout, the inability to stop→ What hypnotherapy actually does (it's not stage hypnosis or losing control)→ Stress addiction: Why high achievers struggle to rest and how to break the cycle→ Christmas pressure and social media comparison — why the need to "make it perfect" is a pattern, not just stress→ Self-compassion vs self-sacrifice: Modeling what you want your children to learnWith Christmas 2 weeks away, this conversation about breaking generational patterns and rewiring your mind couldn't be more timely.