Burnout, feeling stuck, stress, overwhelm - things so many of us have experienced, yet something so few of us have enough support around. Erin and Dani interview The Bad Therapist™ Felicia Keller Boyle, LMFT, a business coach for therapists who is also a therapist with a private practice where she specializes in co-dependency and substance abuse. Throughout this vulnerable and empowering conversation, Felicia’s expertise, insights, and anecdotes reveal how patterns of codependency can contribute to cycles of burnout.

Whether you’re a therapist, in a helping profession, anyone who could use support around managing stress, overwhelm, over-giving - or just curious to begin learning how to identify and change codependency or symptoms of burnout in your life - this episode helps lay a foundation for moving through these aspects of conditioning to break free of codependent dynamics, start healing from burnout, and begin living a life more true to who you are.

Key highlights:

• Examining how systemic oppression, as well as codependent and capitalistic conditioning, can influence us to constantly over-extend, which can lead to harmful somatic symptoms, chronic illness, self-betrayal, overwhelm, and compound stress  - major contributors to burnout - and where to go from here

• Illuminating people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, codependency, enmeshment, and even compromise as detrimental to relationships - and how to start changing these patterns

• Tips on how to begin taking radical responsibility for your experience where you have influence (even if that circle of influence is small) while taking into account the very real-world barriers people face, especially those with marginalized identities

• Encouragement and a supportive framework for validating your struggles with stress, burnout, and overwhelm, beginning to make changes wherever you can, and getting the support you deserve

• Reframing “selfishness” as an opportunity to tune into our needs and take care of ourselves so that we can actually show up for our loved ones and the things we care about with integrity and authenticity

How to reach Felicia Keller Boyle: https://www.thebadtherapist.coach/

Find episode resources on our website: https://beinginpracticepodcast.com/