No. 62 Healing fatigue, pausing therapy + letting yourself live
Ever feel like you’ve been doing so much work on yourself — therapy, journaling, inner child healing — that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to just live? When healing becomes your whole identity, even the tools meant to help you can start to feel heavy. Sometimes growth fatigue hits hard, and you just want life to feel simple again.
In this episode, we talk about:
What healing burnout looks like (and why it’s totally normal)
How self-work can become an addiction to “fixing” yourself
Expanding your definition of healing to include joy, rest, and play
Taking a break without “backsliding” or losing progress
Why you’re not broken — and how to stop treating yourself like a project
Letting life itself be part of your healing
You don’t have to earn your peace by working on yourself. Sometimes the most radical growth comes from simply being.
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Your prescription for living well, dose for this week: You don’t have to be constantly — working on yourself — to keep healing. Growth isn’t about reaching a perfectly healed version of you, it’s about learning to live, feel joy, and be human along the way. Taking breaks from self-reflection isn’t backsliding; it’s part of the healing.
Where in my life am I still treating myself like a project to fix rather than a person to live as?
What part of me still believes there will be a “fully healed” version of me someday?
What would it look like to let myself be enough right now, without working on anything?
What small, simple joys or pleasures have I been deprioritizing because I’ve been focused on self-work?
What is one way I can practice living instead of analyzing this week? 🌷
