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The Body’s Silent Scream: Understanding Compassion Fatigue as Physical Injury and Somatic Healing

The Body’s Silent Scream: Understanding Compassion Fatigue as Physical Injury and Somatic Healing

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Are you a woman healer over 50 struggling with compassion fatigue and emotional exhaustion, feeling like a "floating head of competence" while your body silently suffers? Your chronic pain, jaw tension, and restless nights are not just signs of aging but manifestations of your nervous system under stress.

In this episode, we dive deep into the science of polyvagal theory and allostatic load to explain how your body physically metabolizes the emotional toll of caregiving. Discover how somatic healing and boundary setting can help you reconnect your brilliant mind with your depleted body, allowing you to cultivate self-compassion and reclaim your vitality.

Learn a powerful 5-minute somatic rescue technique designed to break the cycle of burnout, compassion fatigue, and self-neglect. Reclaim your purpose and rediscover the radiance that comes from nurturing yourself as deeply as you nurture others.

If you're ready to shift from martyrdom to self-care and inner peace, hit play now. Share this episode with another woman healer running on empty—we rise together.

This podcast supports women healers over 50 navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions with strategies for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed boundaries, and chakra alignment to heal resentment and self-neglect while cultivating soul joy, radiance, and a purposeful next chapter of freedom and inner peace.

Burnout isn’t your failure—it’s the cost of caring too long without support.
In Pursuit of Soul Joy: A 12-Week Guide for Overcoming Burnout and Compassion Fatigue is written for women healers ready to stop surviving and start living again.

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