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Welcome to the Neurotribe, the podcast where authenticity meets empowerment. Your host, Teresa, is a certified business executive and life coach navigating the intricate tapestry of neurodiversity. She's someone blessed with ADHD and dyslexia and gifted a widow and a mother to four incredible neurodiverse children.
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Join us on this unfiltered journey where no topic is too challenging, [00:01:00] no triumph too small. Let's unravel the layers of our community's experiences, embracing the struggles, celebrating the gifts, and finding empowerment and authenticity in every episode. And let's start right now.
Hi, friends. If you are watching this, it means that you are or have experienced burnout. First, let me tell you, you are not alone. And what this means is not that there's anything wrong with you, it means that you have been carrying too much for too long without the proper support and tools that you need to recover.
I've created this burnout series because I know how complicated recovering from burnout can be. It can take anywhere between three to five years or up to 15 20 years if you do not have the proper support. As a neurodivergent individual, your experience of burnout might look different than others. It's deeper, more complex.
It has to do with [00:02:00] your unique brain wiring and how your brain and body interact with the world. This series isn't about quick fixes and surface level self care. It's about understanding the deeper layers of burnout with your physical, mental, and emotional energy. It's about creating a sustainable path back to recovery and into recovery.
thriving in your life. Whether you're learning to manage your energy, build boundaries, or rewrite internal narratives that keep you stuck, this course is designed to meet you where you're at. What you'll gain here isn't just about knowledge, it's hope. It's practical tools and a roadmap that's flexible and tailored to your unique needs.
You will explore what it means to honor your energy and step out of burnout, [00:03:00] not just for a moment, not just for a short time. but create lasting change. So take a deep breath. You have made the first step. You are here. Let's move forward one piece at a time and rebuild your life with intention, resilience, and joy.
Thank you for trusting me to guide you on your journey. You are worth every moment of this healing process. Let's begin.
We are going to talk about boundaries and burnout. The interesting thing is that boundaries and burnout are actually very deeply connected, because if you do not have boundaries woven throughout your life, you will eventually experience burnout. Now, burnout can happen to anyone. But it happens more often with neurodivergent individuals, as we have a different set of tools than the average person.
Those tools require proper [00:04:00] care. Imagine a set of knives, and this actually sounds weird, talking about boundaries and knives, but hang with me here. Imagine you have a set of really nice kitchen knives. If you do not sharpen those kitchen knives often, I've been told after every time you use them, it wears and tears them over time and they end up getting dull and you can't use them anymore.
This is very on par with neurodivergent individuals, no boundaries and burnout. In other words, boundaries is where our personal care comes in. Think of boundaries as saying no to others. This can be true and is true to a certain extent. It's also saying yes to yourself and no to yourself. This helps you protect your time, your energy, your [00:05:00] mental, emotional capacity.
your physical health and give you a sense of control in your life. In the neurodivergent community, we have all kinds of things that are already taking up a lot more effort, energy, executive functioning, social skills, sensory needs. There are so many different things that play into what we need to produce for regular daily life.
Allowing ourselves the boundaries really help protect us from the rest of the world. A lot of us have a tendency to be very kind, and, and we have. A lot of people who are very ready to take advantage of that kindness and give to them what we aren't or wouldn't give to ourselves. We have people that are very happy to prioritize [00:06:00] their needs above ours.
And so this shift can help us. Be kind to ourselves and prioritize our needs. You might be asking yourself, well, how do I stop this cycle? And let's just talk about that for a minute. It might be that giving boundaries to other people is a shift in your thinking of boundaries to other people is part of my self care.
I'd love you to consider having boundaries for yourself. Let's think about it this way. How often do you push yourself past the point of exhaustion? How often do you feel fatigued, yet you think to yourself, well, I have to fill in the blank or I will stop, but only after I get to that point. Even though your body is telling you right now, it's [00:07:00] past its point, it's done, right?
If we could shift our thinking to I need a break or this is enough for now. What I will tell you is when initially starting to put boundaries in place, both for other people and for yourself. You can come across some people that aren't too thrilled about your boundaries. It might be that you yourself feel very guilty and have a hard time with enforcing boundaries if other people seem hurt by your boundaries.
It might be that they totally respect your boundaries, but there is just something inside that you feel guilty for giving those boundaries. What you will notice is the people that respect your boundaries. You will become closer to and you will [00:08:00] find that you have deeper connections. The people that don't respect your boundaries and continue to push past your boundaries, as long as you are able to uphold your boundaries.
You will notice that they will quietly go away, or they might not call or come around as often.
Imogen: If you or someone you know has experienced burnout, Theresa’s groundbreaking series, A Neurodivergent Guide to Burnout Recovery, is here to help. Designed specifically for neurodivergent individuals, this series dives deep into the complexities of burnout and offers practical, sustainable solutions tailored to your unique needs.
What makes this series different?
Theresa understands that burnout for neurodivergent individuals isn’t the same as it is for others. It’s more layered, often tied to energy management, sensory needs, and executive functioning challenges. That’s why this guide goes beyond surface-level self-care, focusing on:
Building sustainable [00:09:00] boundaries to protect your energy
Developing tools to replenish mental, emotional, and physical well-being
Creating a clear and flexible roadmap for recovery
What you’ll gain:
Real-world strategies to regain control over your life
Freedom from the overwhelm that keeps you stuck
Clarity, peace, and self-trust to thrive beyond burnout
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