Laura @ WholeYou Resilience ☀️🌻
@wholeyouresilience.com
stress management expert, burnout prevention/recovery trainer, mind-body-spirit whisperer, wellness coach
Happy Mother’s Day to …
All the Lilly Ledbetters out there!
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never give up.
This is what a bad-ass strong woman looks like. ❤️
All the Lilly Ledbetters out there!
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never give up.
This is what a bad-ass strong woman looks like. ❤️
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy Mother’s Day to …
All the Lilly Ledbetters out there!
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never give up.
This is what a bad-ass strong woman looks like. ❤️
All the Lilly Ledbetters out there!
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never give up.
This is what a bad-ass strong woman looks like. ❤️
I don’t place significant value on made-up human holidays. I hope some day I may be able to find joy in them again. Mostly, I find them stressful as our capitalistic society exploits our obligation to participate to make money.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day!
May 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I don’t place significant value on made-up human holidays. I hope some day I may be able to find joy in them again. Mostly, I find them stressful as our capitalistic society exploits our obligation to participate to make money.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day!
🌀 🌀 Inner Listening is the Path to Freedom 🌀 🌀
#Burnout recovery demands we listen less to external definitions of self and more to the messages arising from within. The more we align with the Self, the more purposeful and vital our lives become.
It's hard because it requires we let go.
#Burnout recovery demands we listen less to external definitions of self and more to the messages arising from within. The more we align with the Self, the more purposeful and vital our lives become.
It's hard because it requires we let go.
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🌀 🌀 Inner Listening is the Path to Freedom 🌀 🌀
#Burnout recovery demands we listen less to external definitions of self and more to the messages arising from within. The more we align with the Self, the more purposeful and vital our lives become.
It's hard because it requires we let go.
#Burnout recovery demands we listen less to external definitions of self and more to the messages arising from within. The more we align with the Self, the more purposeful and vital our lives become.
It's hard because it requires we let go.
🌀 🌀 Growth Requires Discomfort 🌀 🌀
Questioning the identity we’ve built in life is disorienting, and often painful, but it’s essential for personal freedom. Only by challenging our assumptions can we begin to discover a more authentic way of being.
This is the work of #burnout recovery.
Questioning the identity we’ve built in life is disorienting, and often painful, but it’s essential for personal freedom. Only by challenging our assumptions can we begin to discover a more authentic way of being.
This is the work of #burnout recovery.
May 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🌀 🌀 Growth Requires Discomfort 🌀 🌀
Questioning the identity we’ve built in life is disorienting, and often painful, but it’s essential for personal freedom. Only by challenging our assumptions can we begin to discover a more authentic way of being.
This is the work of #burnout recovery.
Questioning the identity we’ve built in life is disorienting, and often painful, but it’s essential for personal freedom. Only by challenging our assumptions can we begin to discover a more authentic way of being.
This is the work of #burnout recovery.
🌀 🌀 Don't Mistake Adaptation for Identity 🌀 🌀
Our beliefs about “who we are” stem from roles we assumed in childhood: the responsible one, the pleaser, the rebel. These roles were survival strategies.
#Burnout recovery requires we recognize some of these ways of being no longer serve us.
Our beliefs about “who we are” stem from roles we assumed in childhood: the responsible one, the pleaser, the rebel. These roles were survival strategies.
#Burnout recovery requires we recognize some of these ways of being no longer serve us.
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🌀 🌀 Don't Mistake Adaptation for Identity 🌀 🌀
Our beliefs about “who we are” stem from roles we assumed in childhood: the responsible one, the pleaser, the rebel. These roles were survival strategies.
#Burnout recovery requires we recognize some of these ways of being no longer serve us.
Our beliefs about “who we are” stem from roles we assumed in childhood: the responsible one, the pleaser, the rebel. These roles were survival strategies.
#Burnout recovery requires we recognize some of these ways of being no longer serve us.
🌀 🌀 Our Identity is a Construct 🌀 🌀
Our conscious identities—based in the ego mind—are shaped by early life experiences, cultural expectations, and adaptive responses. They are not our true Self, but a provisional version meant to help us survive.
#Burnout recovery demands we transcend these.
Our conscious identities—based in the ego mind—are shaped by early life experiences, cultural expectations, and adaptive responses. They are not our true Self, but a provisional version meant to help us survive.
#Burnout recovery demands we transcend these.
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🌀 🌀 Our Identity is a Construct 🌀 🌀
Our conscious identities—based in the ego mind—are shaped by early life experiences, cultural expectations, and adaptive responses. They are not our true Self, but a provisional version meant to help us survive.
#Burnout recovery demands we transcend these.
Our conscious identities—based in the ego mind—are shaped by early life experiences, cultural expectations, and adaptive responses. They are not our true Self, but a provisional version meant to help us survive.
#Burnout recovery demands we transcend these.
🌀 🌀 🌀 If it matters to YOU, it matters. 🌀 🌀 🌀
"Doing it anyway” means we act with courage and clarity, knowing our efforts matter even if we receive no external validation and the outcomes don’t last forever.
#Burnout recovery demands a real mission.
"Doing it anyway” means we act with courage and clarity, knowing our efforts matter even if we receive no external validation and the outcomes don’t last forever.
#Burnout recovery demands a real mission.
May 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🌀 🌀 🌀 If it matters to YOU, it matters. 🌀 🌀 🌀
"Doing it anyway” means we act with courage and clarity, knowing our efforts matter even if we receive no external validation and the outcomes don’t last forever.
#Burnout recovery demands a real mission.
"Doing it anyway” means we act with courage and clarity, knowing our efforts matter even if we receive no external validation and the outcomes don’t last forever.
#Burnout recovery demands a real mission.
🌀 🌀 🌀 Disillusionment Demands Meaning 🌀 🌀 🌀
Understanding and accepting our goals/ideals/roles will eventually fall apart is not pessimism. True inner power begins when we accept disillusionment and choose to live purposefully in spite of it.
#Burnout recovery must transcend apathy.
Understanding and accepting our goals/ideals/roles will eventually fall apart is not pessimism. True inner power begins when we accept disillusionment and choose to live purposefully in spite of it.
#Burnout recovery must transcend apathy.
May 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌀 🌀 🌀 Disillusionment Demands Meaning 🌀 🌀 🌀
Understanding and accepting our goals/ideals/roles will eventually fall apart is not pessimism. True inner power begins when we accept disillusionment and choose to live purposefully in spite of it.
#Burnout recovery must transcend apathy.
Understanding and accepting our goals/ideals/roles will eventually fall apart is not pessimism. True inner power begins when we accept disillusionment and choose to live purposefully in spite of it.
#Burnout recovery must transcend apathy.
🌀 🌀 🌀 Collapse is a Powerful Opportunity 🌀 🌀 🌀
When what we’ve built fails or falls apart, the void makes way for deeper connection to our values, character, and calling.
Sustainable recovery from #burnout must include resolute self-discovery to re-align with our inner authority.
When what we’ve built fails or falls apart, the void makes way for deeper connection to our values, character, and calling.
Sustainable recovery from #burnout must include resolute self-discovery to re-align with our inner authority.
May 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🌀 🌀 🌀 Collapse is a Powerful Opportunity 🌀 🌀 🌀
When what we’ve built fails or falls apart, the void makes way for deeper connection to our values, character, and calling.
Sustainable recovery from #burnout must include resolute self-discovery to re-align with our inner authority.
When what we’ve built fails or falls apart, the void makes way for deeper connection to our values, character, and calling.
Sustainable recovery from #burnout must include resolute self-discovery to re-align with our inner authority.
Conscious Choices | Not Obligation Fulfillment
Actively choosing rather than reacting or staying in repetitive action involves questioning our conditioned responses and moving toward the discomfort when it aligns with our authentic personhood.
This is how we reclaim our Self from #burnout.
Actively choosing rather than reacting or staying in repetitive action involves questioning our conditioned responses and moving toward the discomfort when it aligns with our authentic personhood.
This is how we reclaim our Self from #burnout.
May 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Conscious Choices | Not Obligation Fulfillment
Actively choosing rather than reacting or staying in repetitive action involves questioning our conditioned responses and moving toward the discomfort when it aligns with our authentic personhood.
This is how we reclaim our Self from #burnout.
Actively choosing rather than reacting or staying in repetitive action involves questioning our conditioned responses and moving toward the discomfort when it aligns with our authentic personhood.
This is how we reclaim our Self from #burnout.
The life we desire lies on the other side of fear mountain.
True change requires us to move through fear, not around it. A life of meaning and vitality come when we confront what we fear and reclaim the parts of ourselves we left behind in our youth.
Authentic #burnout recovery requires courage.
True change requires us to move through fear, not around it. A life of meaning and vitality come when we confront what we fear and reclaim the parts of ourselves we left behind in our youth.
Authentic #burnout recovery requires courage.
May 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The life we desire lies on the other side of fear mountain.
True change requires us to move through fear, not around it. A life of meaning and vitality come when we confront what we fear and reclaim the parts of ourselves we left behind in our youth.
Authentic #burnout recovery requires courage.
True change requires us to move through fear, not around it. A life of meaning and vitality come when we confront what we fear and reclaim the parts of ourselves we left behind in our youth.
Authentic #burnout recovery requires courage.
➡️ Old Ways of Being are Rooted in Survival
Many of our habits and decisions are shaped by childhood / young adult adaptations aimed at safety or approval. These patterns usually persist into adulthood, unconsciously limiting our ability to thrive.
Discarding these is key to #burnout recovery.
Many of our habits and decisions are shaped by childhood / young adult adaptations aimed at safety or approval. These patterns usually persist into adulthood, unconsciously limiting our ability to thrive.
Discarding these is key to #burnout recovery.
May 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
➡️ Old Ways of Being are Rooted in Survival
Many of our habits and decisions are shaped by childhood / young adult adaptations aimed at safety or approval. These patterns usually persist into adulthood, unconsciously limiting our ability to thrive.
Discarding these is key to #burnout recovery.
Many of our habits and decisions are shaped by childhood / young adult adaptations aimed at safety or approval. These patterns usually persist into adulthood, unconsciously limiting our ability to thrive.
Discarding these is key to #burnout recovery.
Well-Balanced Isn't Flourishing
Striving to be well-balanced or “normal” is a superficial, top-down "tactic." Balance is not inherently healthy when it comes at the cost of authenticity. In this scenario, it is not an effective solution for #burnout recovery.
Solid foundations are bottom up.
Striving to be well-balanced or “normal” is a superficial, top-down "tactic." Balance is not inherently healthy when it comes at the cost of authenticity. In this scenario, it is not an effective solution for #burnout recovery.
Solid foundations are bottom up.
May 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Well-Balanced Isn't Flourishing
Striving to be well-balanced or “normal” is a superficial, top-down "tactic." Balance is not inherently healthy when it comes at the cost of authenticity. In this scenario, it is not an effective solution for #burnout recovery.
Solid foundations are bottom up.
Striving to be well-balanced or “normal” is a superficial, top-down "tactic." Balance is not inherently healthy when it comes at the cost of authenticity. In this scenario, it is not an effective solution for #burnout recovery.
Solid foundations are bottom up.
Becoming Who We Truly Are
Key to recovering from #burnout and cultivating psychological and spiritual wellbeing is owning our personal authority.
This requires confronting fears, doubts, and inherited beliefs.
Key to recovering from #burnout and cultivating psychological and spiritual wellbeing is owning our personal authority.
This requires confronting fears, doubts, and inherited beliefs.
May 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Becoming Who We Truly Are
Key to recovering from #burnout and cultivating psychological and spiritual wellbeing is owning our personal authority.
This requires confronting fears, doubts, and inherited beliefs.
Key to recovering from #burnout and cultivating psychological and spiritual wellbeing is owning our personal authority.
This requires confronting fears, doubts, and inherited beliefs.
👉 🌟 Authenticity Over Conformity
Foundational to recovering from #burnout is embracing that our life goals may not conform to societal or familial expectations. Going along to get along is death.
We must pursue our own unique path, even when it challenges norms or makes us uncomfortable.
Foundational to recovering from #burnout is embracing that our life goals may not conform to societal or familial expectations. Going along to get along is death.
We must pursue our own unique path, even when it challenges norms or makes us uncomfortable.
May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
👉 🌟 Authenticity Over Conformity
Foundational to recovering from #burnout is embracing that our life goals may not conform to societal or familial expectations. Going along to get along is death.
We must pursue our own unique path, even when it challenges norms or makes us uncomfortable.
Foundational to recovering from #burnout is embracing that our life goals may not conform to societal or familial expectations. Going along to get along is death.
We must pursue our own unique path, even when it challenges norms or makes us uncomfortable.
#Burnout is working harder within the existing system to “make it.” The endless hustle and side hustles culture into which we’ve been indoctrinated.
The theme this week is about how we begin to liberate and reclaim our Self, individually and collectively, from the toxic system we have created.
The theme this week is about how we begin to liberate and reclaim our Self, individually and collectively, from the toxic system we have created.
May 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#Burnout is working harder within the existing system to “make it.” The endless hustle and side hustles culture into which we’ve been indoctrinated.
The theme this week is about how we begin to liberate and reclaim our Self, individually and collectively, from the toxic system we have created.
The theme this week is about how we begin to liberate and reclaim our Self, individually and collectively, from the toxic system we have created.
The road to burnout looks like:
“Thirty years, two degrees and $50k of debt later, and I’m doing basically the same damn trained monkey work I did when I was 19 years old and for essentially the same pay and exploitive treatment.”
“Thirty years, two degrees and $50k of debt later, and I’m doing basically the same damn trained monkey work I did when I was 19 years old and for essentially the same pay and exploitive treatment.”
April 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The road to burnout looks like:
“Thirty years, two degrees and $50k of debt later, and I’m doing basically the same damn trained monkey work I did when I was 19 years old and for essentially the same pay and exploitive treatment.”
“Thirty years, two degrees and $50k of debt later, and I’m doing basically the same damn trained monkey work I did when I was 19 years old and for essentially the same pay and exploitive treatment.”
The road to burnout looks like:
Realizing you spent 10-20-30 years of your life working for a system that places profits over people. And you’re still living just barely better than paycheck to paycheck.
Some of us have no desire to climb the corporate ladder. We just want meaningful work.
Realizing you spent 10-20-30 years of your life working for a system that places profits over people. And you’re still living just barely better than paycheck to paycheck.
Some of us have no desire to climb the corporate ladder. We just want meaningful work.
April 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The road to burnout looks like:
Realizing you spent 10-20-30 years of your life working for a system that places profits over people. And you’re still living just barely better than paycheck to paycheck.
Some of us have no desire to climb the corporate ladder. We just want meaningful work.
Realizing you spent 10-20-30 years of your life working for a system that places profits over people. And you’re still living just barely better than paycheck to paycheck.
Some of us have no desire to climb the corporate ladder. We just want meaningful work.
The road to #burnout looks like:
Working for an organization that supports / makes its money via a system built to exploit for profit. And you realize you’re nothing but a prostitute.
Ex: Higher education so unaffordable only people with family money can afford it.
Working for an organization that supports / makes its money via a system built to exploit for profit. And you realize you’re nothing but a prostitute.
Ex: Higher education so unaffordable only people with family money can afford it.
April 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The road to #burnout looks like:
Working for an organization that supports / makes its money via a system built to exploit for profit. And you realize you’re nothing but a prostitute.
Ex: Higher education so unaffordable only people with family money can afford it.
Working for an organization that supports / makes its money via a system built to exploit for profit. And you realize you’re nothing but a prostitute.
Ex: Higher education so unaffordable only people with family money can afford it.
The road to #burnout looks like:
Work that feels meaningless.
We are wired for purpose. When your tasks are repetitive, disconnected, or void of impact, your sense of self starts to erode — and your motivation goes with it.
You’re not just tired — you’re wondering why you’re even doing it.
Work that feels meaningless.
We are wired for purpose. When your tasks are repetitive, disconnected, or void of impact, your sense of self starts to erode — and your motivation goes with it.
You’re not just tired — you’re wondering why you’re even doing it.
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The road to #burnout looks like:
Work that feels meaningless.
We are wired for purpose. When your tasks are repetitive, disconnected, or void of impact, your sense of self starts to erode — and your motivation goes with it.
You’re not just tired — you’re wondering why you’re even doing it.
Work that feels meaningless.
We are wired for purpose. When your tasks are repetitive, disconnected, or void of impact, your sense of self starts to erode — and your motivation goes with it.
You’re not just tired — you’re wondering why you’re even doing it.
The road to #burnout looks like:
When your job asks you to do things that go against your ethics or integrity (even subtly), it creates internal conflicts. Over time, that friction becomes emotional exhaustion.
Example: Selling something you don’t believe in.
When your job asks you to do things that go against your ethics or integrity (even subtly), it creates internal conflicts. Over time, that friction becomes emotional exhaustion.
Example: Selling something you don’t believe in.
April 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The road to #burnout looks like:
When your job asks you to do things that go against your ethics or integrity (even subtly), it creates internal conflicts. Over time, that friction becomes emotional exhaustion.
Example: Selling something you don’t believe in.
When your job asks you to do things that go against your ethics or integrity (even subtly), it creates internal conflicts. Over time, that friction becomes emotional exhaustion.
Example: Selling something you don’t believe in.
Here’s the truth no one tells you:
#Burnout isn’t easily diagnosed. And it isn't easily treated.
People seem like they have it all together—until they can’t fake it anymore.
We need to stop glamorizing “pushing through.”
We need to stop treating rest like a reward for breaking ourselves.
#Burnout isn’t easily diagnosed. And it isn't easily treated.
People seem like they have it all together—until they can’t fake it anymore.
We need to stop glamorizing “pushing through.”
We need to stop treating rest like a reward for breaking ourselves.
April 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s the truth no one tells you:
#Burnout isn’t easily diagnosed. And it isn't easily treated.
People seem like they have it all together—until they can’t fake it anymore.
We need to stop glamorizing “pushing through.”
We need to stop treating rest like a reward for breaking ourselves.
#Burnout isn’t easily diagnosed. And it isn't easily treated.
People seem like they have it all together—until they can’t fake it anymore.
We need to stop glamorizing “pushing through.”
We need to stop treating rest like a reward for breaking ourselves.
#Burnout doesn’t always look like a breakdown.
You don't miss deadlines.
You don't underperform.
You don't call in sick.
Between the flashes of anger and rage, you're completely numb.
Your life is a problem to be solved. Everything is an obligation bleeding your life force dry.
You don't miss deadlines.
You don't underperform.
You don't call in sick.
Between the flashes of anger and rage, you're completely numb.
Your life is a problem to be solved. Everything is an obligation bleeding your life force dry.
April 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#Burnout doesn’t always look like a breakdown.
You don't miss deadlines.
You don't underperform.
You don't call in sick.
Between the flashes of anger and rage, you're completely numb.
Your life is a problem to be solved. Everything is an obligation bleeding your life force dry.
You don't miss deadlines.
You don't underperform.
You don't call in sick.
Between the flashes of anger and rage, you're completely numb.
Your life is a problem to be solved. Everything is an obligation bleeding your life force dry.
#Burnout doesn't always look like crying on your lunch break.
It’s drinking several glasses of wine every night to forget how shitty your job is, how broken your body is, and how disappointing your life is.
It’s hating every moment…but having no idea how to get off the ride.
It’s drinking several glasses of wine every night to forget how shitty your job is, how broken your body is, and how disappointing your life is.
It’s hating every moment…but having no idea how to get off the ride.
April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Burnout doesn't always look like crying on your lunch break.
It’s drinking several glasses of wine every night to forget how shitty your job is, how broken your body is, and how disappointing your life is.
It’s hating every moment…but having no idea how to get off the ride.
It’s drinking several glasses of wine every night to forget how shitty your job is, how broken your body is, and how disappointing your life is.
It’s hating every moment…but having no idea how to get off the ride.
You were the strong one. The reliable one. The one who always pushed through.
But now, your body, your mind, and your heart betray you. Just showing up feels like a battle.
No one sees the war.
That's #burnout. That's being a zombie.
You can't solve it with the same tactics you've always used.
But now, your body, your mind, and your heart betray you. Just showing up feels like a battle.
No one sees the war.
That's #burnout. That's being a zombie.
You can't solve it with the same tactics you've always used.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You were the strong one. The reliable one. The one who always pushed through.
But now, your body, your mind, and your heart betray you. Just showing up feels like a battle.
No one sees the war.
That's #burnout. That's being a zombie.
You can't solve it with the same tactics you've always used.
But now, your body, your mind, and your heart betray you. Just showing up feels like a battle.
No one sees the war.
That's #burnout. That's being a zombie.
You can't solve it with the same tactics you've always used.