050 - When You No Longer Feel Excited About Your Life: The Aliveness Crisis Facing High-Achieving Women

About this episode

The episode explores the loss of excitement and aliveness in high-achieving women due to various pressures and responsibilities.

Have you ever caught yourself thinking: "I don't even know what I want anymore." Or... "Nothing really excites me the way it used to." In today's episode of The Feminine Business School, I'm exploring a pattern I see in so many ambitious, capable women: the gradual loss of aliveness. Not because they've failed. Not because they're ungrateful. Not because they lack ambition. But because years of responsibility, emotional labour, perfectionism, caregiving, achievement and chronic pressure can s...

People in this episode

Host: Ainslie Young

Topics covered

• aliveness crisis
• high-achieving women
• emotional labor
• responsibility
• perfectionism
• caregiving

Keywords

• aliveness
• high-achieving women
• emotional labor
• perfectionism
• responsibility
• caregiving
• achievement

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