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+
Stop Calling It "Resilience": Why Your High Tolerance for Stress is Actually Trauma
Do you spend your entire day holding space for everyone else's crisis, only to get in your car and feel a silence so loud it makes you want to crawl out of your skin?
You are the "Strong One." You handle the caseload, the family, and the trauma without cracking. But let’s call this what it really is: Your "high-functioning" nature isn't resilience—it is a trauma response. Your nervous system isn't thriving; it is addicted to the chaos, and it perceives "rest" as a life-threatening danger. You aren't succeeding; you are dissociating just to survive your own life.
In this explosive kickoff to the 12 Days of Radiance Reset, Dr. Julie dismantles the lie that keeps you trapped. Discover the biological reason you physically cannot sit still, why your Root Chakra is starving for safety, and the exact 60-second intervention to tell your body that the war is finally over.
It is time to stop surviving your success. Press play to learn why you aren't "just tired"—you are injured—and exactly how to start the healing.
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.
THE DIAGNOSIS: Are you the Martyr who can't say no? Or the Warrior who fights until she collapses? You cannot heal what you cannot name.
👇 Take the 60-Second Quiz to find your Burnout Archetype: [CLICK HERE TO REVEAL YOUR ARCHETYPE]
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Episodes drop every Tuesday at 5am and every Friday at noon.
Special guest episodes drop the 4th Thursday of every month at 7am.
Welcome to the 12 Days of Radiance Reset. Y'all know all about the 12 days of Christmas here at Compassion Fatigue Cure. We are doing the 12 days of Radiance Reset. Over the next 12 days, we're ditching the holiday overwhelm to take you from exhausted to trapped, to take you from exhausted and trapped to radiant and free. This is your end of year reclamation. So you show up to the clinic, you save lives, you smile at your patients. Everyone thinks you are a superhero, but inside you're screaming. Today we rip off the mask of high functioning burnout. Empowering brilliant women in healthcare over 50 to transform burnout and compassion fatigue into renewed passion. Reigniting your spark to create a life that energizes you every single day. I'm your host, Dr. Jules. Let's get to it. Here's the truth. You are not just tired. You are in a state of energetic depletion that sleep. It's not gonna fix. I need you to listen to this podcast until the very last second for three critical reasons. One, I'm going to prove to you that your high achievement is actually a trauma response that is keeping you stuck. Two. We are going to look at the neuroscience of why your brain perceives rest as danger, causing that anxiety you feel the moment you sit down. Three. I'm going to give you a 62nd nervous system hack that will stop the cortisol dump instantly. Okay, let's do it. Let's start with the research. I wanna discuss the concept of high functioning depression, burnout, the research. Shows how women over 50 in healthcare often have elevated cortisol levels that mimic the fight or flight. Even when you're safe, y'all, that's when the helpers high has worn off and it leaves us feeling exhausted and full of resentment. So the chakra that we can focus on for this would be the root chakra, and for this to help with that exhaustion and that resentment. So when you are in high functioning burnout, your root chakra is blocked, so you're not gonna feel safe unless you're doing. You feel ungrounded and you feel like you're just floating in anxiety. It's just awful. So, to get you past this, I wanna teach you the grounding cord. I want you to do this with me right now. I know you might be driving or cleaning, so don't close your eyes, but imagine a thick. Red cord extending from your tailbone, going deep into the center of the earth. Visualize all that overwhelm all the patient client trauma that you've absorbed today over the week, draining down into that cord. And you send all of that to the earth to be composted. Feel the gravity holding you. You are safe, you are held. So what did we learn? We learned that looking successful doesn't mean you feel joy. We learned that your root chakra needs safety, not more work. And y'all, we learned that you can ground yourself in just 60 seconds before you go. You need to take my, what's your burnout, compassion fatigue, archetype quiz. The link is in the show notes. Go take it right now to understand your specific healing path. Remember y'all, we rise together. If this episode hit home, don't just nod and move on. Give yourself what you actually need. Tap the show notes right now to grab your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide, or. The burnout to Radiance Reset. And girl, if you know another woman healer who's running on empty, please share this episode.