Burnout Conversations is about giving a voice to women who have experienced stress, overwhelm, and burnout. Libby speaks to inspiring women who are sharing their stories to make others feel heard.
In this episode of Burnout Conversations, Libby sits down with fitness professional April Schweikl to talk about a side of exhaustion we rarely discuss: The Restless Burnout.
April spent years dealing with extreme fatigue, night terrors, and eventual physical collapse, all while managing the intense pressure of being a single mum and a health leader. When her body finally hit a wall, she had to face a hard truth: standard rest wasn't the answer. She had to completely retrain how her brain reacted to downtime.
We live in a world that tells us we can launch a business and hit '6-figure success' in a matter of months. But for Emma, that race for success led to three separate bouts of burnout.
She realised she wasn't just building a business; she was living in a constant state of 'survival' that started long before she ever opened a laptop.
In this episode, we’re exploring her breaking point, the myth that working less is the only answer, and how she finally used Somatics to move from a state of high alert to a life of true energetic success.
In this episode, Libby is joined by Gail, a WayFinder Life Coach who spent years in corporate leadership perfectly calibrating herself to fit everyone else's expectations. On paper, she was winning; internally, she was 'shoulding' herself right out of her own life.
We're exploring the high cost of overriding your own signals, why it’s often easier to blame our hormones than our alignment, and how to stop chasing a version of success that is actually the problem, not the answer.
We often think that the experts who manage our mental health systems have an invisible shield against burnout - that because they know the 'science' of stress, they are immune to the struggle, but today’s guest proves that that just isn’t the case.
In this episode, Libby is joined by now Life Coach, Harriet Smith. As an NHS Senior Manager, Mental Health Nurse, and Life Coach, she spends her days building the systems that care for others, but behind the professional expertise was a heavy exhaustion that started at a young age and followed her into motherhood.
We’ll be talking about the weight of 'carrying on,' the reality of Mum Guilt, and the life-changing moment that a mental health professional realised that some things just belong in the "F*ck It Bucket."