Burnout – Coach Carly

You’re so used to managing everyone else’s emotions you have no idea what you feel anymore…

You’ve spent years being the emotional airbag for everyone else… cushioning their crashes, absorbing their outbursts, translating their moods, and tip-toeing through their triggers. Meanwhile, your own emotional world is crumbling. 🤯 You’ve become so hyper-attuned to their feelings that you’ve been completely ignoring your own. Maybe you grew up walking on eggshells, reading the room before you could even read words. Maybe somewhere along the line you decided that peace was maintained by keeping everyone else happy… even…

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Stop fawning, start yawning: How to break the cycle of people-pleasing

I recently posted this reel on my Coach Carly page and Sue commented “more about the fawning experiences please, so here we go! In the past, when people used to talk about living in survival mode, they would refer to “fight, flight and freeze” modes. Fight, flight and freeze refers to well-known stress responses that occur when the body senses it’s in danger, prompting a release of hormones to either help you fight or run away to essentially save your…

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5 Silent emotional patterns keeping you stuck

Ever feel like you’ve read all the self-help books, journalled until you got RSI, and sat through therapy sessions nodding along… but still feel like you’re dealing with the same old shit? 💩 Yeah. You’re not the only one, legend. That’s because there are some sneaky AF emotional patterns that may be keeping you stuck. 😣 They’re subtle, quiet, and disguised as “normal” – but they’ll keep you spinning in circles until you drag them into the light. Here…

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When his eyes turned black, I knew I was in trouble

I’ll never forget this one client at my old job in Corrections. I was supervising a client on a Court Order once – not my usual guy, just filling in for a colleague – and it was evident to me straight away he was in psychosis. 🫨 I’ve worked with many people who are in psychosis the majority of the time, and when you work with someone consistently you know what their baseline is – as in, you can…

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8 Signs you’re emotionally healing (Green flags you can’t ignore)

We spend so much time talking about red flags – the toxic partners, the burnout, the emotional fckery – that it can be easy to miss the good stuff. 🚩 But when you’re actually doing the work on yourself (and not just “reading one self-help book and crossing your fingers hoping for the best”), there are little green shoots that pop up to show you: hey legend, you’re healing. 🌱 Here are some green flags that show you’re not…

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Go on, treat yourself! You deserve it.

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine came to see me for an energy treatment at Wellness Unleashed, where I see 1:1 clients for coaching and energy work every other Friday. She’d been feeling run down and on the verge of burnout and wasn’t sleeping properly due to her young child’s irregular sleeping patterns. 🥱 One of the reasons I love seeing clients at Wellness Unleashed is because they can see me for coaching and/or energy work,…

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