When Life Hits All at Once: Finding Strength Through Burnout, Divorce, and a New Reality

Listener note: This episode features an honest discussion regarding workplace burnout, emotional and verbal abuse, and the trauma of pregnancy loss. We also touch on parenting a child with autism and managing a chronic health diagnosis. Please listen with care and support your own wellbeing.

In this raw and deeply human episode of The Healing Circle, Christine Higgins sits down with a guest who has spent a lifetime "brushing it off" to survive. From a childhood rooted in financial strain and emotional suppression to an adulthood marked by a controlling marriage, complex grief, and relentless workplace stress, our guest shares the reality of what happens when you are pushed to the very edge of burnout.

Now navigating the world as a single mother while managing a recent Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, she walks us through the uncomfortable yet liberating process of finally being forced to put herself first. This is a conversation for anyone who has ever felt at the bottom of the pile, anyone who has used a "mask" to hide their internal struggle, and anyone ready to stop suppressing their magic and start remembering their own needs.

TIMESTAMPS

00:49 Introduction: A story of extraordinary resilience

01:50 The "Snowball Effect" of childhood suppression

04:07 Marriage, isolation, and the reality of control

06:30 Navigating the trauma of pregnancy loss

09:43 Finding your North Star through the darkness.

10:25 Parenting, autism, and facing external judgment.

13:19 The mental load of a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis.

16:45 How suppressed trauma manifests in the body.

21:05 Soul contracts and healing the "Father Wound"

24:42 Why illness is sometimes the universe's way of saying no

27:47 Reclaiming youth and living "disgracefully" at 40+

31:10 Final Wise Words: Why you must feel the feels

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