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The Degree That Broke You: Why Your Training Wired You for Burnout (Women Healers 50+)

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Are you a high-achieving woman healer over 50 who did everything right—earned the degrees, built the career, and secured the status—yet you feel more exhausted now than when you were a starving student?

You were promised that expertise would bring ease. Instead, your training wired your nervous system for chronic self neglect. For women over 50 and healers, the very education that built your career is often the root cause of your burnout. You learned to normalize stress, ignore your body, and wear overwhelmed as a uniform. But now, as you navigate the "Midlife Collision" of menopause, aging parents, and complex caseloads, those old strategies aren't just failing—they are breaking you.

In this truth-telling episode, Dr. Juls names the uncomfortable reality: Your degree didn't prepare you for this; it prepared you to suffer. You will learn to unlearn the habits of the "Achievement Trap" and shift from grinding to wisdom. Discover:

  • The "Achievement Trap": How graduate programs trained your brain to normalize anxiety and make "overwork" your default setting.
  • The Midlife Collision: Why the "push through" strategies of your 30s are destroying your energy now that you are navigating the physiological shifts of midlife women.
  • 4 Nervous System Tools: Practical interventions, including the Heart-Root Recalibration, to stop the cycle of resentment and reclaiming your inner peace.

Your worth is not in your credentials. Press play to unlearn the hustle and reclaim your mental health.

This podcast supports women healers over 50 navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions with strategies for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed boundaries, and chakra alignment to heal resentment and self-neglect while cultivating soul joy, radiance, and a purposeful next chapter of freedom and inner peace.

THE DIAGNOSIS: Are you the Martyr who can't say no? Or the Warrior who fights until she collapses? You cannot heal what you cannot name.

👇 Take the The Shadow Healer Archetype Quiz™:

[CLICK HERE TO REVEAL YOUR ARCHETYPE] - You’ve spent your life healing others. But what is it costing you? Discover which of the 4 Shadow Archetypes is draining your energy—and get the 60-second protocol to stop the leak.

Join the Rebellion: If this episode woke something up in you, share it with a colleague who needs permission to stop. We rise together.

Reach out to Dr. Julie

Episodes drop every Tuesday at 5am and every Friday at noon.

Special guest episodes drop the 4th Thursday of every month at 7am.

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Setting the Stage: The Pivot (00:00:00)

2. The Uncomfortable Question: Degree vs Burnout (00:01:46)

3. Success Outside, Empty Inside (00:03:48)

4. The Data: Burnout by the Numbers (00:06:10)

5. How Training Wires Us for Overwork (00:09:36)

6. Cognitive Load, Leadership, and Constant Decisions (00:12:04)

7. Gender, Midlife, and Invisible Pressures (00:14:21)

8. Myths We Were Sold, Truths We Need (00:17:00)

9. The Souljoy Method: Core Pillars (00:19:32)

10. Four Practices You Can Start Today (00:21:17)

11. Closing Truths and What’s Next (00:27:22)

71 episodes

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Send us your thoughts!

Are you a high-achieving woman healer over 50 who did everything right—earned the degrees, built the career, and secured the status—yet you feel more exhausted now than when you were a starving student?

You were promised that expertise would bring ease. Instead, your training wired your nervous system for chronic self neglect. For women over 50 and healers, the very education that built your career is often the root cause of your burnout. You learned to normalize stress, ignore your body, and wear overwhelmed as a uniform. But now, as you navigate the "Midlife Collision" of menopause, aging parents, and complex caseloads, those old strategies aren't just failing—they are breaking you.

In this truth-telling episode, Dr. Juls names the uncomfortable reality: Your degree didn't prepare you for this; it prepared you to suffer. You will learn to unlearn the habits of the "Achievement Trap" and shift from grinding to wisdom. Discover:

  • The "Achievement Trap": How graduate programs trained your brain to normalize anxiety and make "overwork" your default setting.
  • The Midlife Collision: Why the "push through" strategies of your 30s are destroying your energy now that you are navigating the physiological shifts of midlife women.
  • 4 Nervous System Tools: Practical interventions, including the Heart-Root Recalibration, to stop the cycle of resentment and reclaiming your inner peace.

Your worth is not in your credentials. Press play to unlearn the hustle and reclaim your mental health.

This podcast supports women healers over 50 navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions with strategies for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed boundaries, and chakra alignment to heal resentment and self-neglect while cultivating soul joy, radiance, and a purposeful next chapter of freedom and inner peace.

THE DIAGNOSIS: Are you the Martyr who can't say no? Or the Warrior who fights until she collapses? You cannot heal what you cannot name.

👇 Take the The Shadow Healer Archetype Quiz™:

[CLICK HERE TO REVEAL YOUR ARCHETYPE] - You’ve spent your life healing others. But what is it costing you? Discover which of the 4 Shadow Archetypes is draining your energy—and get the 60-second protocol to stop the leak.

Join the Rebellion: If this episode woke something up in you, share it with a colleague who needs permission to stop. We rise together.

Reach out to Dr. Julie

Episodes drop every Tuesday at 5am and every Friday at noon.

Special guest episodes drop the 4th Thursday of every month at 7am.

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Setting the Stage: The Pivot (00:00:00)

2. The Uncomfortable Question: Degree vs Burnout (00:01:46)

3. Success Outside, Empty Inside (00:03:48)

4. The Data: Burnout by the Numbers (00:06:10)

5. How Training Wires Us for Overwork (00:09:36)

6. Cognitive Load, Leadership, and Constant Decisions (00:12:04)

7. Gender, Midlife, and Invisible Pressures (00:14:21)

8. Myths We Were Sold, Truths We Need (00:17:00)

9. The Souljoy Method: Core Pillars (00:19:32)

10. Four Practices You Can Start Today (00:21:17)

11. Closing Truths and What’s Next (00:27:22)

71 episodes

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