Breaking The Burnout Cycle
Are you a female entrepreneur who is currently spinning your wheels, doing all the right things, yet continuing to find yourself hitting an invisible wall that is keeping you from the success, fulfillment, freedom, & happiness you want?
You’ve read the books. Taken the courses. Implemented the strategies. You know the “how to”...but somehow they either don’t work for you when you apply them OR you can’t get yourself to stay consistent with them to get them to work for you.
And because of that there is a part of you that wonders deep down
“Why is this working for everyone else but me?”
“Maybe I’m doing something wrong? What am I missing?”
“Am I not doing enough?”
…or worse - “Is something wrong with me?”
And because you’ve only learned one way to achieve success, you now find yourself believing that the only way to achieve your goals is to work even harder. To push and push and push, like nothing else matters, not your health, not your family, not your life.
Here’s the truth: You’re not broken. You’re just burnt out from doing success the way you were taught — the hustle-harder, push-through, ignore-your-needs kind of way.
Breaking the Burnout Cycle is the podcast that finally speaks to you. Hosted by Dr. Reana Mulcahy, subconscious reprogramming coach and former hustle-addict turned aligned success mentor, this show is your permission slip to stop over-functioning, start honoring your truth, and finally create the next level of success from a place of alignment, not exhaustion.
Dr. Reana over the past 4 years has been high achievers, like yourself, break free from the burnout cycle by teaching brain-based tools, rooted in neuroscience and neuropsychology, to help you identify, understand, and break free from subconscious habits that are keeping you from the success, fulfillment, and freedom you crave.
Each week, we dive into subconscious mindset work, nervous system healing, and the invisible beliefs that keep high achievers stuck in survival mode — even when they look “successful” on the outside. You'll hear solo episodes, client breakthroughs, and expert conversations designed to help you rewire your beliefs, reclaim your energy, and rise into the results, relationships, and reality you know you’re meant for.
It’s time to stop chasing success that costs you your peace. It’s time to break the burnout cycle — for good.
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Breaking The Burnout Cycle
Is Gratitude Keeping You Stuck In Burnout?
You've heard the advice "Just be grateful" anytime you are venting about the things that are stressing you out
And if you're like most of the women that I serve, then chances are you do exactly that
Anytime you want to vent and scream at the top of your lungs because you're frustrated or angry at the way things are in your business/job - you find that you can't...
Because you don't want to seem ungrateful, you immediately
❌Tell yourself all of the ways that you already have so much to be grateful for
❌Look for the silver lining in a shitty situation
❌Tell yourself that others have it way worse than you do, so you have no right to complain
But what if I told you that this is the exact reason you're still burnt out?
Tune in to today's episode to find out how gratitude is keeping you stuck in burnout
We unpack why “be thankful” can become self-gaslighting that is perpetuating the cycle of burnout you're in.
You’ll learn why precise emotion labeling calms the nervous system, how cultural stigma teaches women to hide valid anger, and what happens when the drive to “look on the bright side” overrides what your body knows.
If you’ve tried to “positive-think” your way out of burnout and ended up more drained, this conversation offers a different route
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What if I told you that gratitude is actually what's keeping you stuck in burnout? Crazy. I know, right? I'm revealing why that is on today's episode, so stay tuned. Hi, I'm Dr. Rihanna Mulkhey, and after burning out not just once, but twice, I've uncovered that burnout becomes a never-ending loop unless you uncover the subconscious beliefs at the root of it all. Each week, I'm bringing you brain-based tools and strategies that will help you to identify and rewire subconscious blocks, keeping you from the success, happiness, and freedom that you really want. This is Breaking the Burnout Cycle Podcast. Welcome into another episode of Breaking the Burnout Cycle Podcast. I cannot believe that this is Thanksgiving week, right? Like where has the time gone? I don't even know. Um, but I hope that you guys, if you're traveling, are traveling safe. Um, today I thought it would be very fitting to talk about how gratitude, which is what this entire Thanksgiving um holiday is about, why gratitude might actually be one of the biggest things that can keep you stuck in burnout. And I know what you might be thinking. I know you might be like, what? Like, that is preposterous. That is not something I've ever heard before. And it's because, right, how many of you have gotten the advice that the way out of burnout or the way out of depression or the way out of whatever it is that you're going through is gratitude? And I know that I have been told that numerous times um from not only my parents, but also from licensed mental health professionals that I was seeing for depression of like focus, like, and and they're coming from a good place. So let me just put that there first. But they talk about how you need to be focusing on the things that you do have, right? You need to be focusing on the things that are going right, and to an extent they are correct, to an extent, right? The emotions that you feel often are a great indicator of what it is you are focusing your attention on. But here is how I see gratitude tends to be one of the biggest things that keeps so many of the women that I coach stuck in burnout. The reason why gratitude ends up being an inhibitor rather than a tool to help you move out of burnout is that I see in so many women, they end up gaslighting themselves out of wanting more, out of being angry, out of any of the negative emotions, negative associations that they have with a situation that they are going through. Whether that's you know not seeing the revenue they want in their business, or that's um not getting the promotion, or whatever it is in their work or life situation, they are frustrated with their circumstances, they're angry even at their circumstances, and yet we have been told to just be grateful, right? Like it could be worse. How many times do we hear that? Whenever we are angry or upset, we hear people try to like tell us basically that, oh well, just look on the bright side, find the silver lining, look at how things could be a lot worse. And I get where that sentiment is coming from. It is a very well-intentioned sentiment, but the reason why it keeps you stuck is because one of the biggest causes of burnout is when you have an emotion that is stuck within you and you don't move your way through it. And, you know, our entire society, especially if you're a millennial, um, our entire society has grown up with generations where feelings are weakness, where feelings are not okay. And so you talk about anger, you talk about frustration, you talk about disappointment, all of these negative emotions, especially, they have such a stigma to them, especially if you're a woman, right? Like you're not supposed to show emotions, and if you do, then it's a weakness, or it shows why you why women aren't qualified to be leaders or whatever that doo-doo thought thought process is. Right? And and this might be challenging for you if you aren't aware or aren't in touch with what your emotions are. I think so many of us are still learning a lot about emotions. And you know, I know for myself anyway, that I used to think that emotions were happy, sad, mad, angry, and that was it. When the reality is there is a whole gamut of different shades of anger, different shades of disappointment, different shades of like joy and excitement, and all of those are big clues on areas that like we need to heal. And so emotional building your emotional IQ can be one of the most uh burnout resilient tools that you can learn if I were to suggest one, just one tool. It would be build your emotional IQ, and so what I have is I actually have a freebie that and so what I have is I actually have a guide that talks about different emotions and really helps you to start understanding what you're feeling. And so what you're going to do is essentially use that in combination with pen to paper, and when you feel a certain negative emotion, I just want you to take five seconds to literally just write down whatever emotion you think it is, and you can use that emotion guide as just like your um bank of words, so to speak, and just choose one of those and get curious, is that really what I'm feeling here? Okay, because the sooner that you start to just acknowledge it, just like in the analogy I gave you with the child, with the baby, right? Once you acknowledge it, once you address it, well, guess what? The baby stops crying. And the same is true for the burnout cycles, the energy wastes that you're feeling, the same is true for you. Okay, and so I hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends if you are celebrating. If you are not, I hope that you take some time to just enjoy maybe some a Thursday off. And if you are not celebrating, then I hope that you have a wonderful Thursday off from work, hopefully. And other than that, I will see you guys next week on another episode. Bye for now.