If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, constantly “on,” or quietly resentful even while doing everything “right”… this episode is going to land.

Because here’s the truth most high-capacity women were never taught:

You can’t honor your energy without boundaries — and every time you override your limits, your nervous system pays the price.

We’re dismantling the modern myth that energy is a mindset problem… and revealing the real reason you feel depleted, overwhelmed, or numb:

nervous-system-based boundary collapse.

Whether it shows up as people-pleasing, chronic overfunctioning, emotional caretaking, guilt when resting, or simply the inability to say no… your body keeps the score long before you mentally “notice” you’re burned out.

Inside this conversation, you’ll learn:

✔️ The neuroscience of energy leaks

How fawning, over-giving, and constant striving keep your body in chronic fight-or-flight — and why shutdown, numbness, and exhaustion often follow.

✔️ What boundary collapse really looks like in high-achieving women

The subtle signs you’ve normalized (resentment, irritability, over-responsibility, low bandwidth, self-abandonment) — and how your body interprets them as danger cues.

✔️ Why your limits aren’t flaws — they’re design features

How honoring your God-given capacity actually expands your ability to show up with clarity, purpose, and peace.

✔️ Why honoring your energy is impossible without nervous-system alignment

And why no planner, routine, or productivity hack will give you the bandwidth your body doesn’t have.

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What if the thing you’re missing isn’t more discipline — it’s more play?

Not structured play.
Not “fun time” on your calendar.
Not something productive or Pinterest-worthy.

Real play.
Pointless, joyful, silly, inefficient play.

In this episode, we unpack:

✔️ Why a lack of play quietly fuels anxiety, irritability, and burnout
✔️ The neuroscience of how play expands creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation
✔️ How play restores executive function — the part of your brain responsible for decision-making and focus
✔️ Simple ways to bring play back into your life (even if you feel disconnected from it)

This isn’t about adding another task to your day.
It’s about remembering what your nervous system already knows:

Play is medicine.

Play is regulation.
Play brings you back to yourself.

If you’ve been efficient, responsible, and exhausted, this episode will feel like an exhale — and an invitation to feel alive again.

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If motherhood ever cracked you open in ways you didn’t expect—old grief surfacing, worthiness wobbling, “Who even am I now?”—this conversation will feel like oxygen.

I’m joined by Anna Seewald—Armenian-born educator, psychologist, and parenting & co-parenting specialist.

After surviving the 1988 Spitak earthquake at 13 (losing her mother, home, friends, and community), Anna built a life and practice in the U.S.

For the last 17 years she’s worked with parents in New Jersey as a therapist and divorce mediator, helping families heal patterns at the root—without perfectionism, shame, or Band-Aid fixes.

We’re diving into:

• ✔️ Trauma-informed parenting 101: why early loss/relational wounds resurface in pregnancy and the “dark side” of early motherhood—and how to stop repeating unconscious patterns
• ✔️ Worthiness, shame, and the nervous system: why self-compassion (not self-critique) is the real regulator—and how to practice acceptance even when you don’t “love” every part of you
• ✔️ Practical repair tools: catching the harsh inner critic, shifting from people-pleasing to needs-honoring, body gratitude over body punishment, and simple in-the-moment resets (hand-on-heart, kinder self-talk, micro-choices)

If you feel like you’ve been hanging onto parents for dear life—or minimizing your story because it’s not “capital-T” trauma—this episode offers grounded hope and clear next steps.

🎧 Press play to learn how to honor your history, rewire toward gentleness, and lead your family from a steadier, kinder core.

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