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If you’re a woman healer over 50 feeling trapped in a career that drains your energy, this episode dives deep into how fear of change and emotional exhaustion keep you stuck. Learn how burnout and compassion fatigue rewire your nervous system, guided by polyvagal theory and somatic healing principles, to make change feel dangerous — when it can actually be restorative. Discover how chakra imbalances, especially in the root and sacral chakras, contribute to emotional paralysis and loss of purpose.

In this episode of Compassion Fatigue Cure, Dr. Julie Merriman unpacks the biological and energetic reasons why staying in an unfulfilling job feels safer than change, even when it’s harmful. You’ll get practical tools like The Change Map, an embodied practice to transform fear into possibility and move towards restoration.

This episode is perfect for women healers 50+ who are exhausted but afraid to leave, who want to understand their nervous system's role in compassion fatigue and burnout, and who seek somatic healing and chakra balancing to reclaim their life and purpose. Take the burnout quiz included to identify your pattern and start your path forward.

Remember, staying isn’t neutral — it shapes you. Choose to rise into restoration and clarity with nervous-system-informed insight and compassionate self-care. We rise together.

You don’t need to force bravery.
You need your nervous system to remember how to adapt and flow.

If this episode named what you’ve been living, your next step is clarity.
Take the Quiz below to identify your specific burnout pattern and the path forward.

Staying isn’t neutral.
It’s a decision — and it’s changing you.
The question is whether you choose stagnation or restoration.

We rise together.

This podcast is for women healers over 50 navigating burnout and compassion fatigue who want nervous-system-informed insight into exhaustion, purpose loss, polyvagal regulation, chakra healing, and embodied recovery so they can move from survival into clarity, stability, and restoration.

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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