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.
Episodes
70 episodes
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 ...
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Episode 69
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5:42
Stop Being The "Magic Maker": Why Over-Functioning Is Causing Your Holiday Burnout & Resentment
Are you finding it impossible to actually enjoy the holiday season because your brain is stuck in hyper-drive, obsessively managing everyone else's emotions, menus, and memories while you slowly burn out in the backgro...
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Episode 68
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15:11
The Holiday Mental Load Relief Episode: How AI Helps Women Healers 50+ Break the Burnout Cycle
Have you ever hit December and thought, I swear I’m doing everything right, so why does this still feel like too much?Not because you’re weak.Not because you can’t handle pressure.But because the invisible emotional labor of ...
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Episode 67
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16:00
The Disconnection Epidemic: Why Women Healers 50+ Burn Out & How to Reconnect to Your Body, Relationships, and Purpose
If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “When did I stop feeling like me?” this episode explains exactly why. Burnout and compassion fatigue in women healers over 50 aren’t caused by doing too much. They’re caused by disconn...
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Episode 66
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10:37
67 Days to Rewire Burnout: The Year-End Reset Every Woman Healer Over 50 Needs
Have you ever noticed that every December you promise yourself next year will be different, yet by February you’re right back in the same exhaustion, over-giving, people-pleasing, and burnout cycle? If you’ve been wondering w...
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Episode 65
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11:02
Holiday Burnout for Professional Helpers: Stop Over-Functioning This Christmas
It's Black Friday, and if you just spent all of Thanksgiving making everyone else's holiday perfect while eating cold food standing at the sink—this episode is for you.Dr. Juls breaks down why holiday over-functioning is literally making...
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Episode 64
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20:35
The Toxic Gratitude Trap: Why Women Healers 50+ Stay Stuck in Burnout — and How to Break Free
Have you ever felt like you’re supposed to be grateful for your burnout?Like you’re drowning, but everyone keeps telling you to “focus on your blessings”?That’s not spiritual maturity.That’s toxic gratitude—and it’s keeping women...
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Episode 63
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26:19
The Performative Gratitude Trap: Why Forced Thankfulness Fuels Burnout in Women Healers 50+
Have you ever noticed that the things you say you’re “grateful” for… are often the very things burning you out, draining your energy, and keeping you from feeling like yourself?In this episode, you’ll learn three things that will ...
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Episode 62
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17:40
What Burnout in Women Healers Over 50 Really Means: It’s the Moment Your Nervous System Demands a New Life
Have you ever hit a point where you’re functioning on autopilot while quietly wondering, “Is this really my life now?” Burnout in high-achieving women healers over 50 isn’t the same burnout you experienced at 30 or 40. It’s d...
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Episode 61
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17:40
The Day I Fired My Therapist: What Every Woman Healer Over 50 Needs to Understand About Boundaries, Burnout, and Your Nervous System
Have you ever ignored your own exhaustion because “you should know better”? Or found yourself nodding politely while your therapist—or any other helper—gave you advice that made your nervous system shut down? Women healers ov...
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Episode 60
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20:02
The Identity Crisis You Can’t Ignore: Why Your Nervous System Is Rebuilding the Woman You Lost (Women Healers 50+)
Have you ever stood in your kitchen, stared into the refrigerator, and suddenly realized you weren’t actually looking for dinner—you were looking for yourself?This show helps women healers over 50 who have spent decades being the ...
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Episode 59
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26:33
The Overthinking Epidemic: Why Brilliant Women Healers 50+ Can’t Turn Off Their Minds (and How to Stop It)
Ever replay a conversation from 1997 at 2:00 AM or rewrite an email seventeen times while your brain runs a full clinical case conference in your head?This show helps brilliant women healers over 50 who are exhausted by their own ...
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Episode 58
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17:00
When Smart Women Miss Their Own Warning Signs: The Self-Neglect Wake-Up Call for Burned-Out Healers 50+
When was the last time you dismissed a symptom, pushed through pain, or told yourself “I’m fine” even though your body was clearly waving a red flag?This show helps high-achieving women healers over 50 who are experts at caring fo...
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Episode 57
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17:13
“I’m Fine” Is Killing Your Joy: Reconnecting Laughter & Life for Burned-Out Women Healers 50+
When was the last time you looked someone in the eye and said “I’m fine”—while knowing you were absolutely anything but?This show helps women healers over 50 who have mastered the art of holding it together so well that no one sus...
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Episode 56
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15:58
You’re Not Broken, You’re Lonely: The Hidden Isolation Fueling Burnout in Women Healers 50+
Have you ever ended a long day surrounded by people—patients, colleagues, family—yet felt completely unseen and profoundly alone?This show helps high-achieving women healers over 50 who are "professionally surrounded but personall...
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Episode 55
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33:13
You Are Not Past Your Prime: The Solar Plexus Reset Every Burned-Out Woman Healer 50+ Needs
When is the last time you felt truly powerful at work—deep in your bones, "this is why I became a healer" powerful?This show helps women healers over 50 who feel like their "calling" has been buried under documentation, bureaucrac...
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Episode 54
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13:38
Why You Feel Guilty Resting: The "Empathy Paradox" & How to Escape Compassion Fatigue (Women Healers 50+)
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?This show helps women healers over 50 who are stuck in the "Empathy Paradox"—whe...
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Episode 53
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36:15
Chakra Snacks & Burnout Relief: The Friday Reset Every Woman Healer Over 50 Needs to Finally Exhale
Have you ever ended a week so drained from holding everyone else together that the idea of “balance” feels impossible unless it comes with a side of chocolate and zero judgment?This show helps women healers over 50 who are tired o...
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Episode 52
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11:58
Self-Care Is Gaslighting: The Real Burnout Cure for Women Healers Over 50
Have you ever felt a flash of rage when someone tells you to "just practice more self-care," knowing full well that a bubble bath won't fix your 60-hour work week or your perimenopausal insomnia?This show helps women healers over ...
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Episode 51
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25:45
You’re Not Forgetful — You’re Overloaded: The Hidden Cognitive Burnout Crisis for Women Healers Over 50
Are you a brilliant woman healer over 50 who keeps forgetting why you walked into a room, blanking on names you know, or secretly fearing that your brain is failing you?This show helps high-achieving professionals who are exhauste...
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Episode 50
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7:06
Is Your Hard-Earned Degree Secretly Fueling Your Burnout? The Hidden Crisis for Women Healers 50+
Are you a high-achieving woman healer over 50 who did everything right—earned the degrees, built the career—yet you feel more exhausted now than when you were a starving student?This show helps brilliant women (MDs, PhDs, and adva...
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Episode 49
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25:01
Why Laughter Is a Burnout Intervention: The Cortisol-Lowering Reset Women Healers Over 50 Need
Are you a woman healer over 50 who cares so deeply for others that you’ve forgotten what joy actually feels like in your own nervous system?This show helps seasoned professionals who are running on fumes, snapping at small things,...
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Episode 48
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4:27
Stop Absorbing Everyone’s Pain: How to Hold Space Without Losing Yourself (Women Healers 50+)
Are you incredible at holding space for everyone else—but secretly feel like you’re disappearing in the process?This show helps women healers over 50 who have spent decades being "the strong one." You read the room, absorb the emo...
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Episode 47
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19:48
Meditation Is Not Optional: How to Rewire Your Brain & Stop the Mental Overload (Women Healers 50+)
Are you so mentally overloaded from helping everyone else that your brain never truly turns off—no matter how hard you try?This show helps women healers over 50 who are tired of running on fumes. If you feel like your mind i...
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Episode 46
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20:12
Clearing Energy Clutter: Why You're Still Exhausted After Rest & How to Protect Your Peace (Women Healers 50+)
Are you carrying everyone else’s emotions, stories, and crises… and quietly drowning in your own mental clutter and resentment?This show helps women healers over 50 who feel drained, foggy, and on the edge of burnout—no matter how...
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Episode 45
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32:02