You Can’t Heal While You’re Still Leaking Energy
Everyone talks about burnout like it’s a work problem. Too many tasks. Too much pressure. Too little rest. And yes, burnout can show up that way. So we try fixing it with planners and vacations and bubble baths, and we wonder why nothing really changes.
The real truth: burnout comes from leaking emotional energy everywhere. When you take on too many tasks, when you push yourself past empty, when you feel guilty for resting, it’s because you’re constantly worried about what people think. You’re holding space for people who never show up for you. You’re pretending you’re fine so no one leaves. You’re saying yes when your body is screaming no. Not again.
Overworking and perfectionism aren’t the cause: they’re symptoms of the leak. The leak is what keeps burnout stuck on repeat.
Worry → overwork → pressure → exhaustion → worry again.
Round and round until you forget who you are without the performing. You’re not trapped in burnout because you’re bad at boundaries. You’re trapped because your nervous system still believes love must be earned through being endlessly available.
Somewhere in childhood a part of you learned: “If I’m good enough, useful enough, pleasing enough, they’ll stay.” That part was once a survival skill. But now, it’s draining the life out of you.
So this month, December, we release. We release the identities built on keeping others comfortable. We release the roles we played to be chosen. We release the belief that you must give everything to be worthy of anything.
Burnout doesn’t heal by slowing the leak. Burnout heals by sealing it. By teaching your body that it is safe to set boundaries. Safe to rest. Safe to be loved without performing for it.
You deserve relationships that don’t drain you. You deserve to rest without earning it. You deserve to stop pouring from wounds and calling it generosity.
This is where you break the loop. This is where you stop burning from the inside out. This is where you learn to protect the energy that keeps you alive. 🔥
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Dannielle McAuliffe
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You Can’t Heal While You’re Still Leaking Energy
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