Burnout is a nervous system and self expression problem.

"You don’t need more motivation. You need regulation and self expression."

Here are 3 simple regulation and self expression habits.

1. Early morning routine. The first 60 minutes of the day sets the tone of the rest of it. Often we wake up reactive with the todo list from yesterday already burdening us. Treat yourself how you want to be treated. It’s a great time for self care or self expression.
2. Low stimulation living. Live like the 90’s. Radio in the car, books instead of podcast, journals instead of apps. I’m a month into this low stim summer and it’s completely changing how I know myself. I’ve gone from distracted and not knowing what I want to loving the peace I build and nurture.
3. Painting and Sketching. I’m so lucky to have a daughter who loves art, it was never something I nurtured because I wasn’t “good” at it. I was 31 before an amazing friend told me there isn’t such a thing as being “good” at art, it’s about learning about yourself through a non-linear love.

I used to think that if we course correct the nervous system that life will magically fix itself and for sure life is different when we do that but I found a lot of my clients still had some yoyo going on in their life.

This is when I realized something that changed my life.

Regulation doesn’t solve the issue of not knowing who we are or what we want.

Often it makes those voices louder.

Turns out we all struggle hard with that, especially the random dude in the mirror who always is judging me when I brush my teeth.

So here’s where the rubber meets the road for so many people.

People want to scale their companies, expand the empire but never expand or understand the limitations of their own worth and self love.

When I’m teaching leadership and counseling executives I always get the eye roll from the 3 piece suit and rolex and now I just smile knowing that a mix of accountability and supported, mirrored standards will let them see what they’ve refused to hear for so many years.

As the time goes by with these businesses and clients the same thing always happens.

Breakdown, break through. The great existential crisis they all have feared and avoided. I don’t know who I am or why I am. I’m an imposter in my own life.

This story they’ve lived as a false identity crumbles like the house of cards it is. Leaving behind, judgement, mistakes, failure and vulnerability.

This crisis is the exact environment I hope everyone has the safety to experience one day because if you can actually let yourself sit in it. Really sit in it, the most beautiful experience of your life will come through.

You’ll realize you’re actually okay. You’re not broken, you’re not messed up, you’re not lesser than, you’re not lacking.

YOU JUST ARE… it’s here that life begins.

Perception determines choice and thus power to live in the freedom we all crave.

Freedom of loving yourself despite mistakes, failures and patterns.

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See you on the other side,
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DCL