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Rediscovering Wholeness – Bringing the Parts Back Together

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My guest on today’s walk has experienced burnout personally and has been on a multi-year journey of healing and compassion that brought her back together again.

Avery Thatcher is the CEO and founder of The Truth About Burnout Podcast and the Flow State Membership. When she started her career as a Registered Nurse working in the ICU she noticed that the majority of the reasons people found themselves in the ICU were because of illnesses and diseases that could be linked to chronic stress. She decided to get out of the reactive side of medicine and now helps highly sensitive high achievers prevent burnout and reverse the negative health effects of stress.

After experiencing a significant change of health and severe burnout in 2018, Avery had to learn to redefine her identity and grieve the loss of who she used to be. Now she shares her story openly to help others realize that they are not alone in their struggles and talk about the strategies that helped her heal along the way.

I sit down with Avery to reflect on the dichotomous way of living, the importance of compassion in her own healing, how she came to terms with the sick and hurt side of her personality and turned her health around.

In This Episode

(05:55) – Reflecting on the dichotomous way of living.
(08:35) – The red flag of a toxic ICU.
(12:09) – How Avery started to numb out.
(15:06) – My experiences with burning out.
(21:40) – Going through the five stages of grief in two years.
(23:39) – Coming to terms and working out stuff with the sick Avery.
(27:32) – On changing her name and telling her family.
(35:31) – Asking yourself: What do I actually need?
(37:13) – Measuring achievement in terms of impact and creating.
(42:25) – Discussing labels and satisfying an underlying need.
(44:49) – Bringing awareness around differing values.
(48:51) – Returning to the wholeness and fullness of who we are.
(52:07) – The role of compassion in Avery’s journey.
(57:47) – What makes suffering so challenging?

Notable Quotes

“This is still a part of me and all of me deserves compassion. And then I wrote to this part of me that is sick. This part of me that is disabled, this part of me that is keeping me from who I used to be, who I identified as. And I said, I love you. Let's figure this out. You are along for the ride. I'm going to work with you rather than against you. And it was at that moment that I realized that I needed to somehow create a fresh start.” – Avery (24:32)

“Compassion and authenticity aren't an end goal. They're not an outcome. They are a path themselves that's creating. When we create with the same energy that we want in the outcome, that's how we actually get the outcome. Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr spoke about how the means and the ends must be one and the same in a sense, and to quote Gandhi specifically, means are ends in the making.” – Luke (37:59)

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