Compassion Fatigue Cure: From Burnout to Radiance for Women Healers 50+
Are you a dedicated healer over 50 who feels trapped by exhaustion?
This show helps high-achieving women healers—doctors, nurses, therapists, and caregivers—navigate midlife transitions and move from emotional burnout to radiance.
Tune in weekly to:
- Discover how to release resentment and break the cycle of self-neglect to reclaim your energy and overcome burnout.
- Gain clarity through a unique blend of science-backed research and chakra work to find inner peace and beat compassion fatigue.
- Reconnect with your body, reciprocal relationships, and your sacred purpose.
- Reignite your passion and creativity to design a playful, purposeful next chapter that feels like freedom.
I’m Dr. Julie Merriman I am the leading expert in burnout and compassion fatigue for women healers over 50, blending three decades of clinical experience with trauma-informed nervous system work to create lasting transformation. As the creator of the Soul Joy Empire™ and author of In Pursuit of Soul Joy™, I guide brilliant women to reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their purpose, and rise into their most radiant chapter.
Ready for your reset? Start by listening to our fan-favorite episode 2, Burned Out & Disconnected? A Chakra Wake-Up Call for Women Over 50—we rise together.
Compassion Fatigue Cure: From Burnout to Radiance for Women Healers 50+
The Empathy Paradox of Why You Feel Guilty Resting and Reconnecting with Your Purpose
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Have you ever been so bone-deep exhausted you could cry, yet the moment someone needs you, you override your body's scream for rest just to help them?
You are trapped in the "Empathy Paradox." For women over 50 and healers, your greatest gift has become a heavy chain. Your nervous system is wired to scan for needs and absorb pain, making it impossible to turn off even when you are home. This isn't just fatigue; it is a biological cycle of self neglect and chronic anxiety that leaves you feeling overwhelmed even when you are "off the clock." You aren't just tired; you are running a deficit that sleep cannot fix.
In this validating episode, Dr. Juls teaches you how to stop mistaking everyone else's crisis for your own responsibility. You will learn to break the cycle of guilt and finally prioritize your own mental health. Discover:
- The Empathy Paradox: Why your nervous system keeps you in high-alert mode and how to finally separate "feeling with" someone from "fixing for" them to avoid resentment.
- The "Empathy Anchor" Reset: A simple, 3-step nervous system practice (Name it, Ground it, Reclaim your edges) to bring you back into your own body immediately after absorbing exhaustion.
- The 24-Hour Pause: A practical boundary tool to stop the "automatic yes," forcing you to check your true capacity so you can respond from clarity instead of depletion.
You cannot save the world if you are drowning. Press play to honor your limits without losing your authenticity.
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.
Stop trying to "Self-Care" your way out of a physiological crisis.
If bubble baths and deep breathing actually fixed compassion fatigue, you wouldn't still be staring at the ceiling at 2:00 AM. Your burnout isn't an attitude problem, it's a biological pattern. You are stuck in one of four distinct "somatic signatures." Until you identify yours, you are just throwing water on a grease fire.
Stop guessing. Find the leak. Fix the circuit.
Episodes drop every Tuesday at 5am and every Friday at noon.
Special guest episodes drop the 4th Thursday of every month at 7am.
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.