Why We Stop Trusting Ourselves: Healing Burnout, Boundaries, and Self-Trust

Send us Fan MailWomen’s wellness, nervous system regulation, self-trust, emotional healing, boundaries, and the mind-body connection are essential conversations in a culture that often rewards overgiving, perfection, people-pleasing, and constant productivity. Many women spend years prioritizing everyone else’s needs, disconnecting from their intuition, ignoring their bodies, and pushing through burnout until exhaustion starts to feel normal.In this episode of the ANEW Insight Podcast, Dr. Supatra Tovar continues her conversation with board-certified holistic nurse, health and wellness nurse coach, and founder of Oubaitori Wellness, Samalie Rivera, for Part 2 of a powerful discussion about self-trust, embodiment, women’s healing, nervous system health, and coming back home to yourself.Together, they explore why so many women struggle to trust their intuition, how people-pleasing disconnects us from our inner voice, and why healing is not just about changing your mindset. It is also about reconnecting with the body, creating emotional safety, setting boundaries, and learning to listen to the signals that were always there.Samalie shares practical ways to return to the body during stress, the deeper meaning of the Wild Woman archetype, and what happens when women feel safe enough to be vulnerable, seen, and emotionally honest without performing or holding everything together.Dr. Tovar and Samalie also discuss what is often missing from the current approach to women’s health and wellbeing, including the need to look beyond symptoms and include the emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and nervous system aspects of healing.If you have ever struggled with burnout, self-doubt, anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, overgiving, disconnection from your body, or feeling like you no longer know how to hear yourself, this conversation offers grounding insight into self-trust, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and sustainable wellbeing.Subscribe for more conversations on psychology, nutrition, mental health, emotional wellness, women’s health, nervous system regulation, self-development, healing, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing.Timestamps00:00 Welcome Back to Part 200:30 Rebuilding Self-Trust Through Self-Compassion01:00 Why Small Steps Help Rebuild Inner Trust02:00 Gratitude, Prayer, and Connecting Within02:30 How the Nervous System Affects Intuition03:30 Regulating the Body to Access a Wiser Inner Voice04:15 Why Embodiment Matters More Than Mindset Alone05:00 The Body Has Its Own Language06:00 How the Body Communicates Before the Mind06:40 What to Do When Your Body Sends a Warning Signal07:00 Breathwork, Belly Breathing, and Body Awareness08:00 Emotional Eating, Body Signals, and Asking “What Do I Need?”09:30 Why the Intuitive Voice Is Loving, Not Mean10:00 What the Wild Woman Archetype Really Means11:10 How to Connect With Your Wild Woman12:20 Aging, Wisdom, and Caring Less What Others Think13:15 Letting Go of People-Pleasing Earlier in Life13:40 What Happens When Women Feel Safe Enough to Be Seen14:00 Dropping the Mask in Women’s Circles15:15 Moving From Competition to Connection Among Women16:45 Ketamine, ECT, and Treatment-Resistant Depression18:00 How ECT Helped a Patient Begin Eating Again18:30 Psychedelics, the Right Brain, and Expanded Awareness20:00 Nature, Dance, Singing, and Right-Brain Healing21:10 What Is Missing From Women’s Healthcare21:30 Menstrual Cycles, Energy, Mood, and Productivity22:35 PMS, PMDD, and Taking Women’s Symptoms Seriously23:00 Why Women’s Symptoms Need to Be Taken Seriously23:35 How to Connect With Samalie Rivera24:10 Final Reflections on Intuition, Self-Trust, and Reconnection24:40 Closing the Episode Episode SummaryIn this episode, Dr. Supatra Tovar continues her conversation with holistic nurse and wellness coach Samalie Rivera to explore women’s wellness, nervous system regulation, self-trust, embodiment, emotional healing, and the importance of reconnecting with the body. Together, they discuss how people-pleasing, chronic stress, burnout, emotional suppression, and societal expectations can disconnect women from their intuition and inner wisdom.This conversation offers a grounded and compassionate perspective on healing, reminding listeners that true wellbeing is not about becoming someone else. It is about learning to feel safe enough to return to yourself.What This Episode Covers• Women’s wellness and holistic healing • Nervous system regulation • Rebuilding self-trust • Intuition and inner wisdom • People-pleasing and overgiving • Emotional healing and embodiment • Boundaries and self-worth • The Wild Woman archetype • Vulnerability and emotional expression • Women’s health and the mind-body connection • Burnout recovery • Sustainable wellbeingConnect with Samalie RiveraWild Woman Project: https://thewildwomanproject.com/samalie-rivera-wallingford-ct/Oubaitori Wellness: https://www.oubaitoriwellness.com/pages/homeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samalie-rivera-rn-bsn-hwnc-bc-ryt-07254082Continue Your Journey📘 Book: Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet-Free Life🎓 Course: Deprogram Diet Culture https://anew-insight.com🌐 Visit the Website https://drsupatratovar.com🎥 Watch More Episodes ANEW Insight Podcast🎤 Watch the TEDx Talk Rethinking Your Relationship with Food in the GLP-1 EraSupport the showThank you for joining us on this journey to wellness. 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