It's that time of year again. When the new year's resolutioning kicks into high gear, you start seeing nonstop ads for gyms and weight-loss solutions, and you feel the pressure (and sometimes real desire!) to improve every aspect of your life.

There's nothing innately wrong with using the energy of the new year to make changes. I've spent many hours over the past few weeks both reflecting on 2022 and visioning for 2023 - and I'm excited to move towards that vision and do some things differently this coming year.

I also know it can be a lot. The motivation to change can turn into the weight to change which can morph into the inner critic punishing you for NOT doing the change perfectly pretty darn quickly.

There will be people who judge what you do with your life, whether that's something as small as saying no to a dinner party invite or as big as leaving your job to take risk on something completely different.

So what if you just let that go and gave yourself permission to be judged by them?

What if you listened to your own knowing and made decisions based on what you know in your core is right for you, instead of decisions based on the fear of what other people might think?

“How did you find the motivation to start saying no?” The answer to this one came to me immediately: I didn't want to keep dealing with the consequences of saying yes FAR too often. I didn't want to be tired the rest of my life. I didn't want to be resentful for taking on work that paid me less than I was worth. That was my initial motivation. I wanted to get rid of the consequences of over-yessing. Over time, though, the motivation started to include what I DESIRED from saying no. Because there are SO MANY benefits of saying no.

I read and research a lot about burnout. What causes it, how we can recover from it individually and collectively, how we are experiencing burnout differently now than 6 months ago...and 6 months before that.

I loved Untamed, but as I thought back on the book and all the self-help geared towards women, I realized most of them had one thing in common: The turning point in a woman's life hinged on falling in love or, even more so, having children. This realization made me MAD. On a deep, deep level.

You're probably burned out right now. I don't know how you couldn't be feeling it at least a little - the last year and a half has been EXHAUSTING. And, let's face it, you were probably burned out before 2020. Now it's at a whole other level. This is why I decided to create this three part video series on the Three Steps To Recover From Burnout.