In this episode of Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Soma, Psyche and Soul, I talk about a pattern so many heart-led, deeply caring practitioners experience - pushing harder in every area of life until they reach exhaustion. As we move toward the Christmas period and the end of the year, I reflect on the collective fatigue, the pressure to catch up before the holiday break, and the inner conflict that arises when we’re teaching nervous-system care to our clients while struggling to honour it ourselves.

This episode is a gentle invitation to pause, breathe, and return to your natural rhythm. I explore why “trying harder” is never the answer when we’re overwhelmed, how our conditioning pulls us into fixing and striving, and why we must honour our cyclical nature if we want sustainable growth - in our lives, our healing, and our businesses.

I encourage you to notice where you may have disconnected from your needs and I invite you back into spaciousness, compassion, and alignment with your inner pace. Like tending a young plant, true transformation requires nourishment, patience, and the right environment - not more force.

In this episode I explore: 

• The exhaustion of trying harder - how conscientious practitioners fall into over-efforting in healing, business, and life.

• The end-of-year and Christmas pressure cycle - why November/December amplifies fatigue, comparison, and the sense of being “behind.”

• Fixing vs. tending to - recognising when you’ve slipped into unconscious striving and how to return to a gentler, embodied way of being.

• Honouring your inner rhythm - understanding cycles of work, rest, reflection, and integration through a trauma-informed somatic lens.

• Creating sustainable growth - tending to yourself like a living ecosystem and building your life and business in alignment with your values, nervous system and timing.

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