When Healing Burnout Arrives: The Initiate’s Dilemma

About this episode

The episode discusses the phenomenon of healing burnout and its implications for those seriously pursuing their healing journey.

You have been doing the work. The therapy, the practices, the retreats, the protocols. You are not avoiding your healing — you are pursuing it seriously. And somehow, the more you pursue it, the more exhausted you become. Healing burnout may have set in. This is not a sign that something is wrong with you. […]

People in this episode

Host: Gil Winkelman ND

Topics covered

• burnout
• healing
• mental health
• therapy
• exhaustion

Keywords

• healing burnout
• mental exhaustion
• therapy practices
• retreats
• healing journey

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