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
90 episodes
Purpose After Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: Understanding the Estrogen Void in Women Healers
Have you experienced emotional exhaustion or brain fog that leaves you feeling lost and empty? This episode dives deep into the challenges women healers over 50 face, including burnout, compassion fatigue, and the impact of perimenopause on cog...
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Episode 89
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46:26
Silent Lunch Breaks and Compassion Fatigue: How Your Voice Can Fight Burnout and Reignite Your Purpose
Do you eat lunch alone, scroll your phone, sit in silence on the drive home, and feel too tired to talk—even though you ache for connection?That isn’t rest.That’s your nervous system in shutdown—and it’s making your compassion fat...
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Episode 88
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38:23
Why Fear Keeps Women Healers Over 50 Stuck: Overcoming Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
If you’re a woman healer over 50 feeling trapped in a career that drains your energy, this episode dives deep into how fear of change and emotional exhaustion keep you stuck. Learn how burnout and compassion fatigue rewire your nervous system, ...
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Episode 87
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25:43
From Purpose to Resentment: The Hidden Impact of Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Do you feel invisible at work, overwhelmed by responsibility, and silently carrying resentment while others see you as "the strong one"? If you’re ashamed of that resentment, know this: nothing is wrong with you.In this episode of Compa...
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Episode 86
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23:33
Why Rest Fails: Understanding Polyvagal Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
Feeling exhausted despite rest? This episode explores the root causes of chronic burnout and compassion fatigue among women healers over 50, highlighting why rest alone often can’t help your body recover. Dive into ...
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Episode 85
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57:57
The Body’s Silent Scream: Understanding Compassion Fatigue as Physical Injury and Somatic Healing
Are you a woman healer over 50 struggling with compassion fatigue and emotional exhaustion, feeling like a "floating head of competence" while your body silently suffers? Your chronic pain, jaw tension, and restless nights are not just signs of...
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Episode 84
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12:08
Burnout as a Biological Mandate: Why "One More Year" Costs You More
Have you ever driven to work thinking, “I can’t do this one more year”—and immediately felt guilty for even thinking it?That’s not weakness.That’s your body telling you the truth.In this episode, ...
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Episode 83
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15:51
The Floating Head Syndrome And The Real Reason You Can’t Heal Compassion Fatigue
Do you sit in your driveway for ten minutes after a shift just staring at the garage door? You aren't checking emails. You are hiding. You are dreading the moment you walk inside and someone asks you for "one more thing."You are the most...
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Episode 82
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20:22
The Good Girl Detox™: Unmasking High-Functioning Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion
Are you a woman over 50 in the healing professions feeling trapped by emotional exhaustion and high-functioning burnout? In this episode of Compassion Fatigue Cure, Dr. Julie Merriman explores the deeper roots of identity burnout in...
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Episode 81
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15:37
The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How to Actually Live Your Life Purpose
Throw away the resolution list. Seriously. Burn it. You do not need to lose 10 pounds or "work harder" to be worthy of a good year.Today, we stop trying to "fix" you because you aren't broken—you just need to feel free. In this explosive...
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Episode 80
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10:10
Who Are You Without Your Job Title and Why Identity Loss Fuels Burnout
Who are you without the stethoscope around your neck or DSM, without the title "Mom," or without that "Clinic Director" badge? If asking that question makes your chest tighten or panic rise in your throat... good.That panic is just the d...
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Episode 79
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10:33
Why the Opposite of Play Is Depression and How Play Deficiency Robs You of Your Purpose
When was the last time you did something absolutely pointless, not because it was "healthy" or productive, but just because it felt like fun? If you can't remember, your spark isn't just dim; it is suffocating under decades of duty.As hi...
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Episode 78
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10:39
Why You Smile When You Want to Scream and How the Fawn Response Fuels Compassion Fatigue
Have you ever found yourself agreeing to a favor while your stomach was physically knotting up in protest? Or perhaps you have caught yourself apologizing to a patient or family member who was actively yelling at you?You aren't just "nic...
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Episode 77
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6:00
Your Menopause Rage Is Actually A Superpower Reigniting Your Purpose
Do you feel a sudden, white-hot rage when someone asks you to do something you used to say "yes" to with a smile?Society tells you that menopause is the end—the drying up, the fading away. Biology tells a different story. Biology says yo...
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Episode 76
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5:22
Why Talk Therapy Cannot Fix Your Spiritual Burnout and The Crown Chakra Solution
You would never let a patient ignore a gaping wound, and you would never let a client starve themselves. So why are you committing that exact violence against your own soul every single day?Today, the doctor becomes the patient. We aren'...
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Episode 75
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6:39
You Don't Have Early Dementia, You Have Burnout and Menopause Brain Fog
Do you lie in bed at night, body exhausted, but your brain is frantically grocery shopping, replaying patient charts, and worrying about your aging parents like a browser with 4,000 tabs open? You are secretly terrified that your forgetfulness ...
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Episode 74
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6:10
Why You're Addicted to Being Needed and How This Leads to Burnout - Balance Your Heart Chakra
If you stopped fixing everyone's problems today—right this second—would you still feel valuable, or would you panic? If you hesitated, I need you to know something: You aren't just "kind." You are addicted to being needed.For 50 years, t...
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Episode 73
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7:01
The Good Girl Archetype Makes You Invisible Blocking Your Throat Chakra and Confusing Your Purpose
Do you walk into a room and feel like you have slowly turned into a ghost in your own life? Or perhaps you speak up in a meeting only to be talked over like you aren't even there. You aren't imagining it. The "Invisibility Cloak" of midlife is ...
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Episode 72
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6:52
Resentment leads to Autoimmune Diseases and Burnout
Resentment isn't just a bad mood. It is a biological poison. Every time you say "yes" when you desperately want to say "no," you are literally drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. If you are a healer suffering from unexplain...
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Episode 71
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7:43
Why Empathy Is Destroying Your Adrenals, Sacral Chakra Leak, and Compassion Fatigue
Do you come home after a long shift, sit in your car, and feel like your soul has been scraped raw? You feel like you have absorbed every single ounce of your patient's pain, and no matter how long you shower, you cannot seem to wash the heavin...
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Episode 70
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9:22
Why Your High Stress Tolerance Is Actually Burnout Trauma and How to Heal Your Root Chakra
Have you always prided yourself on being the one who "handles it well" while everyone else falls apart? You are the rock in a crisis, the calm in the storm, and the one who can endure impossible workloads without complaining. But what if that i...
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Episode 69
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5:34
Stop Being The Magic Maker Because 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? You are obsessively managing everyone else's emotions, menus, and memories, all while you slowly burn out in the background....
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Episode 68
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15:02
The Holiday Mental Load Relief Episode on How AI Helps 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?" It is not because you are weak, and it is certainly not because you cannot handle pressure. That deep exhaustion y...
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Episode 67
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15:52
"When Did I Stop Feeling Like Me?" The Disconnection Epidemic Fueling Your Lost Purpose
If you’ve ever caught yourself staring in the mirror and thinking, "When did I stop feeling like me?"—this episode explains exactly why.Burnout and compassion fatigue in women over 50 aren’t caused by doing too much....
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Episode 66
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10:54
67 Days to Rewire Your Brain and Wipe Out Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Have you ever noticed that every December you promise yourself "next year will be different," yet by February you are right back in the same cycle of exhaustion, over-giving, and people-pleasing?If you can’t seem to break the patt...
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Episode 65
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10:54