From People-Pleasing to a Suicide Attempt: How Burnout, Childhood Wounds & Self-Abandonment Collide

Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide and mental health crisis. Listener discretion advised. What happens when being “the strong one” finally breaks you?In this deeply honest episode of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, Kelly sits down with Angie Hawkins, Inner Glow Coach and author of Running in Slippers, to talk openly about childhood emotional neglect, people-pleasing, burnout — and the suicide attempt that forced everything into the light.Angie shares how a lifetime of emotional repression, overachievement, and chasing approval led her to rock bottom, despite looking successful and capable on the outside. This conversation explores the hidden mental health cost of self-abandonment — especially for women conditioned to be “easy,” “good,” and endlessly capable.Together, they discuss:How people-pleasing and perfectionism become survival strategiesWhy burnout is often a slow erosion, not a sudden crashThe warning signs we normalize — until it’s too lateHow isolation quietly intensifies mental health strugglesWhat real healing requires beyond positivity and productivityAngie’s GLOW Method for rebuilding safety, self-worth, and inner trustThis episode is raw, responsible, and grounded — not for shock value, but for truth. If you’ve ever felt invisible while holding everything together, this conversation may help you feel less alone.Angie Hawkins is an Inner Glow Coach who transforms women from chasing love and approval to radiating confidence, so they can finally feel happy, free, and loved for who they are.She works with women who’ve done therapy, read the books, tried the spiritual path, but still feel like something’s missing. Through deep inner work and identity transformation, she helps them break the cycle of not feeling “enough,” so they can experience real love, confidence, and peace without having to change who they are.She is the author of Running in Slippers, a raw and vulnerable memoir about finding resilience after emotional rock bottom.Angie has moved from Chicago to Hawaii on her own, jumped out of a helicopter and into the ocean Navy SEAL-style, bungee jumped, skydived, and cliff jumped, yet is still terrified about allowing herself to be seen.How to connect further…Website: https://www.runninginslippers.com/Instagram: angiehawkins808Your host, Kelly Kingsland, works with successful women at transition points - career shifts, identity changes, empty nest - who are ready to stop outsourcing their power and lead themselves.After decades of living by the rules, the roles, and the relentless expectations placed on women, Kelly walked through her own unraveling: burnout, identity collapse, and the quiet ache of knowing she was meant for more. What she discovered on the other side became the foundation of her work.She is the creator and host of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, where she spotlights real, raw conversations with women who are rewriting the rules and rising on their own terms.Kelly’s mission is simple:to help women stop following the script, and design a life that finally feels like theirs.Kelly can be reached at: radiantfemme.ca www.facebook.com/kelly.m.kingslandIG @kellyradiantfemmeSupport the show