From Burnt Out to Resilient
How I evolved my relationship with stress in four stages
A few days ago, I did something that would have been impossible even a year before: I went out to a women’s networking event and spoke with the group in German, promoted an event I was hosting later in the week, and presented a webinar on women’s hormonal health in the evening.
Everything I did that day — presenting myself in a foreign language, promoting my work, and hosting an event — took me out of my comfort zone and yet even as I felt the stress, I wasn’t stressed out. I felt excited and energized.
The distinction is crucial because I run a business helping women unlock more vitality, confidence, and beauty and have learned that beneath other challenges, most women struggle with a broken relationship with stress. For some, the stressor is a major life change like a divorce or dating again; for others, it’s the overwhelm of managing work and family life; for still others, it’s something that happened in childhood that keeps replaying in the present.
While I’m no therapist, I understand my clients because I struggled with stress throughout my teens and twenties and have spent the past six years changing my relationship with it. I’ve hit absolute burnout and illness, learned to counterbalance stress with breathwork and play…
