Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Yeah, hey, now, yeah. Welcome back to deep down in a disfessional family. Oh hoi, my dear shit shows for any new listeners, my name is Andrea. I am a total and complete

shit show and I am the captain of this ship. Let's just pick up where we left off, okay?

Which was me feeling completely soulfully drained and hitting a wall of burnout and emotional exhaustion.

So in my last episode, I got raw and real about how the heavy toll of balancing my

personal healing with the demands of running this podcast had finally really caught up to me and knocked me

on my ass about how this constant juggling act of trying to process my own pain, my own grief,

while also trying to show up for my work and just being so focused on having to hold space for everyone else

had truly left no space for me. And how running this podcast had started to feel more like a

burden than a blessing, how the things that I once felt so passionate about, the things that had once brought me such fulfillment,

had started to feel like monumental tasks.

The joy in my work had slipped away.

I felt like I was just going through the motions,

rather being truly present in what I was creating.

And so I realized that I could not keep going on this way. And as scary as it was, I really needed to take a break, to reconnect with myself, to find my

footing, to figure out how the hell to move forward. Is this even something that I want to keep doing? Trying to

figure out, how do I be happy again? What does that even look like? And so as I, you know,

took a step back on this break. And let's be honest, it wasn't a real honest break, guys. It was a bit

of a break. I definitely scaled it back some. But the first thing that

I did was ask myself, what has made this an unenjoyable process for me? What is not working here?

What about this isn't fun anymore? What has made this more draining than fulfilling?

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