Getting Burnout Wrong: Why Self-Care is NOT the Solution!

Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Self-care.

If you’re in the helping professions, you’ve heard it all before. But what if the mainstream conversation is missing the point?

Burnout in the helping professions is not a personal failure—it’s a symptom of a broken system and an incomplete narrative of what it means to be a human helper.

In this compelling (and swear-peppered!) episode, Texas Peck and Dr. Saira from The Expansion Project invite you to go deeper. They explore why “managing burnout” and “practicing self-care” aren’t enough—and how trying to sustain your work from a contracted, self-protective state is actually what’s draining your energy. Drawing from the teachings of Advanced Consciousness Therapy, they challenge the usual narratives and offer a radically different lens: what if the key isn’t rest, but expansion?

What if your nervous system doesn’t need to shut down, but to reorganize around a new state of being?

What if you could discover why self-care, rest, and resilience strategies aren't enough to sustain long-term impact in fields like therapy, coaching, social work, and holistic healing?

Tune in to this episode to learn:

- Why traditional self-care tools are a flimsy band-aid, not a long-term solution

- The cost of staying in survival mode, even as a healer

- What it really means to expand beyond contraction

- How the concept of Sovereign Agency frees you from the guilt-trap with high-risk clients  

This isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more. It’s time to stop surviving your calling—and start living it.  Hit the play button to learn how to heal yourself while helping others—without burning out, checking out, or selling out.