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“I’m Fine” Is Killing Your Joy: Reconnecting Laughter and Life for Burned-Out Women Healers 50+

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When was the last time you told someone “I’m fine” while knowing you were anything but?

If you’ve gotten so good at performing competence, holding it together, and being the steady one that nobody sees the truth beneath your calm exterior, this episode is going to feel like a lifeline. Because “I’m fine” is slowly killing your joy, your laughter, and your ability to feel truly connected.

Burnout in women healers over 50 shows up in quiet ways: emotional isolation, surface-level conversations, hiding exhaustion, and losing the lightness that once made work—and life—feel meaningful. You check all the boxes, carry all the responsibility, and still feel strangely unseen. Today I break down why this happens, why humor is essential for nervous system regulation, and why connection—not productivity—is the antidote to compassion fatigue, exhaustion, overwhelm, resentment, and that trapped feeling no one warns us about.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
• Recognize how “I’m fine” becomes emotional armor for women healers in midlife
• Understand why disconnection accelerates burnout and compassion fatigue
• Use simple humor-based nervous system resets to interrupt stress patterns
• Rebuild authentic connection so you stop carrying everything alone
• Implement the Three Text Challenge to break isolation and revive real joy
By the end, you’ll understand why reclaiming laughter and connection isn’t frivolous—it’s medicine.

If this episode hit home, don’t just nod and move on. Give yourself what you actually need.

Tap below right now to grab your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide or the Burnout to Radiance Reset.

And if you know another woman healer who is running on empty, please share this episode.

Together we rise.

Ready to feel like you again?

Take the free What’s Your Burnout Archetype? Quiz to learn where your exhaustion is coming from.

Then grab:

Your free Burnout to Radiance Reset

Your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide

Begin your soul-deep reinvention.

Reach out to Dr. Juls [email protected]

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

With a special guest episode once a month dropping at Thursday at 7am.

  continue reading

67 episodes

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Content provided by Dr. Julie Merriman. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dr. Julie Merriman or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Send us your thoughts!

When was the last time you told someone “I’m fine” while knowing you were anything but?

If you’ve gotten so good at performing competence, holding it together, and being the steady one that nobody sees the truth beneath your calm exterior, this episode is going to feel like a lifeline. Because “I’m fine” is slowly killing your joy, your laughter, and your ability to feel truly connected.

Burnout in women healers over 50 shows up in quiet ways: emotional isolation, surface-level conversations, hiding exhaustion, and losing the lightness that once made work—and life—feel meaningful. You check all the boxes, carry all the responsibility, and still feel strangely unseen. Today I break down why this happens, why humor is essential for nervous system regulation, and why connection—not productivity—is the antidote to compassion fatigue, exhaustion, overwhelm, resentment, and that trapped feeling no one warns us about.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
• Recognize how “I’m fine” becomes emotional armor for women healers in midlife
• Understand why disconnection accelerates burnout and compassion fatigue
• Use simple humor-based nervous system resets to interrupt stress patterns
• Rebuild authentic connection so you stop carrying everything alone
• Implement the Three Text Challenge to break isolation and revive real joy
By the end, you’ll understand why reclaiming laughter and connection isn’t frivolous—it’s medicine.

If this episode hit home, don’t just nod and move on. Give yourself what you actually need.

Tap below right now to grab your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide or the Burnout to Radiance Reset.

And if you know another woman healer who is running on empty, please share this episode.

Together we rise.

Ready to feel like you again?

Take the free What’s Your Burnout Archetype? Quiz to learn where your exhaustion is coming from.

Then grab:

Your free Burnout to Radiance Reset

Your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide

Begin your soul-deep reinvention.

Reach out to Dr. Juls [email protected]

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

With a special guest episode once a month dropping at Thursday at 7am.

  continue reading

67 episodes

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