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Dear Beloved Community,
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to keep showing up for others—especially when your own tank feels dangerously close to empty.
If you’re someone who lives with your heart wide open—if you’re a helper, a healer, a parent, a caregiver, a therapist, a teacher—you’ve probably heard all the usual advice when burnout starts creeping in.
Take time for yourself.
Practice self-care.
Go on vacation.
Do more yoga.
Drink more water.
Sure, those are all lovely things. I used to do them all too. Religiously. For hours a week. For years.
But somehow, I never seemed to land in the ease and flow and grace that all the self-help gurus promised.
Something was ALWAYS missing, and so much of my life had become about keeping burnout at bay.
Here's the kicker: over the last year, I have not experienced ANY signs of burnout.
Is that because I have a stellar self-care plan? Actually, no.
I no longer engage in the Tasmanian-devil-level self-care routines of my past (watch this week's video for details!)
So today, we ask a different question about burnout and self-care - what if they were missing something all along?
This week, Texas and I unpacked the gaps in the conversation around burnout. We’ve both spent decades in the helping professions, and we’re seeing a pattern: people are burning out not because they don’t engage in self-care, but because they're operating from contraction instead of expansion.
They are showing up from obligation, from survival, from over-responsibility, from fear.
And let’s be real—you can’t sustain a healing practice from a contracted state.
There, I said it.
In the video, I tried really hard not to swear (spoiler alert: I almost made it). Because honestly, I’m quite fired up about the way burnout is being talked about these days. It feels like we’re being handed a surface-level script—one that doesn’t acknowledge the depth of what’s actually going on inside us as healers and helpers.
Texas and I sat down and got real about it. Here’s what we explore in the video:
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Why the traditional narrative around burnout just doesn’t cut it anymore
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How we got here—and why so many of us are trying to do life and work from the neck up
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What it actually looks like to return to presence
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And how expansion (not just a different kind of busy-ness masked as self-care) is the path forward
We didn’t make this video because we have it all figured out. We made it because we’re walking this path too.
We’ve both faced the unraveling.
We’ve both hit the wall at some point.
And we’ve both had to rebuild—not by hustling or grinding or taking one more course in self-care, but through connection, courage, and community.
(Now I say WE, but Texas let me do most of the talking this week - he could barely get a word in edge-wise!)
So if you're feeling like you’ve been carrying too much for too long, I want to invite you to take 12 minutes to breathe, to listen, and maybe to exhale a little. Because you don’t have to do this alone. And you were never meant to.
I hope this video reminds you of what’s already true:
You’re not broken.
You’re closer than you think.
And you're always welcome here.
With Love (and a little Sacred Fire),
Dr. Saira
P.S. Want to dive a little deeper? Get your in-person or virtual tickets to our June 7th live event here.
Practitioner Profile
Introducing Victory Peck
Advanced Consciousness Therapy (Apprentice)
If anyone knows how to keep burnout far away and remain grounded and smiling while doing it, it's our very own Victory Peck - mom of three and resourceful entrpreneur with a heart for helping and hands that heal.
Q: Tell us about yourself as a person and as a healing professional.
A: As a person, I have always had a deep level of compassion and understanding for others and a general curiosity. I like to have fun and I am a mother of three young children. My life has been a real journey – giving me a lot of opportunities to learn and grow through hard things, knowing I have the strength to heal and overcome while maintaining a level of fun. As a professional, I found a real passion in energy work and I also took schooling for massage therapy, speaking to my love of healing bodies and taking a holistic approach to the human. Lots of interesting opportunities continue to come to me through working with energy.
Q: What is your Service Signature?
A: Compassionate, non-judgemental, warm, fluid, evolving
Q: What are some of the topics that people come to you about?
A: Domestic abuse and violence, family dynamics with young children, blended families
Q: What drew you to this work?
A: I love that it is providing a way to embrace my passion in working with energy with a framework that is relatable and has language to help people access their own deeper healing.
Q: What is the hardest thing about specializing in Advanced Consciousness therapy?
A: Breaking through the constructs that we are so bound by in our society.
Q: What do you love most about your work?
A: I love that it’s giving people their power back, giving them the tools to live this way day to day, on their own with real, tangible practices that aren’t so big and out there that you can’t use them your real life.
Q: What is the one thing about this approach that most people don’t know
A: That it’s actually really simple.
Q. What would you say to someone who is unsure about trying Advanced Consciousnesses Therapy?
A: It’s valid to feel unsure because change can be scary. Learning to listen to our own inner guidance empowers us to confidently create change in our lives.
Interested in working with Victory? Book in your Complimentary Intake Call today to see if she is the healing professional you've been looking for!
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