Finding Balance: The Journey from Burnout to Self-Care and Authentic Living

What if you could transform your life, relationships, and work by shifting your mindset and incorporating self-care habits? This episode is a powerful exploration of my personal journey from being a high-functioning, high-achiever to finding healing from burnout. I’ll share my experiences – the immense pressure I put on myself in corporate and my unhealthy attachment to accomplishments – and how this affected my mental and physical health and relationships. You’ll learn how creating space for myself led to a more balanced and present lifestyle. Dive into the profound impact that self-care has had on my life. As we journey through this episode, you’ll discover how prioritizing mental and physical health can lead to feeling more grounded and proactive. We’ll talk about the harmony that being present brings to relationships and I’ll provide valuable advice on recognizing and shifting the ways we show up in relationships. As we wrap up the episode, I’ll stress the necessity of commitment to our healing journey despite the challenge it poses to our ego. The episode will guide you on how to create space in your daily calendar for self-care activities that bring joy and regulate your nervous system. I invite you to journey with me on the path towards self-discovery and healing, learn how to create a balanced life, and show up as your most authentic self. You can read the full podcast transcript for this episode below: Full Transcript0:00:00 – Speaker 1Welcome to the Fully Expressed podcast with Karenna. I am your podcast host, Karenna Soto. I am so happy to have you here. The full intention for this podcast is to be an invitation for you to fully express yourself in life, relationship and business and to continue on this personal evolution as you continue to live your life in those areas. I promise to you to always bring these raw, transformative, vulnerable, transparent, deep and factual supportive conversations to you. That is my intent for this podcast and on this episode today, I give you some light into what it was like for me as a high achiever, what it looked like to start healing from burnout and what you can actually start doing if you are on this path of go, go, go, giving your all, feeling like you never have space for you and you’re always craving this me time but feel like you have to show up in the world or you should show up in the world, and so I’m really excited for this episode. Feel free to tune in, listen in and here we go, let’s dive in.So today I was reflecting on just what this month has been like for me, and this month has genuinely been finally a month where I feel like I am proactive in my to-dos. I feel very grounded and present with every activity or task that I’m doing and, for the most part, have created a lot of space to be. This is the biggest one. I am feeling a lot of space in my life and what does that mean to me? Basically? Really getting to a place in my life where I am present whenever my partner’s around. I am so present with my friendships. So if I go on a walk with a girlfriend, or if I’m talking to them on the phone, or if I’m on a girl’s trip, or if I’m going to a bachelorette party or if I’m at a wedding, I’m super present with those experiences. I’m fully, fully available to you with the feelings of love and gratitude and in giving and in receiving and all of those exchanges. And it wasn’t always like that. As I’m starting, obviously I don’t know why I tend to do this, but I can just feel the tears come up in my eyes Because before I really started diving deep into my high achieving patterns, my high functioning an...