Success = Burn Out? True Or False?
“I learned to create my abundant healing business as a LEADER in ALIGNMENT with my deepest PURPOSE.”
- Nicole Barton
🔥⚡ SUCCESS = BURN OUT? TRUE OR FALSE? ⚡🔥
Oh woman, is this one thing I wish I had known when I began creating my healing spiritual business?! Yes it is. ⚡
Firstly, I ended up quitting corporate (well over a decade ago now!) because I went up in flames and burned out - so you can trust me that I know this one WELL.
And for almost a decade I played life SMALL because I was scared of being fully in my power and fully in my possibility for true 'success' and abundance.
💣 TRUTHBOMB: I had no idea my deepest fear was of SUCCESS rather than FAILURE 💣
Ok, maybe I did - to a degree - in that I was slightly aware I had some 'blocks' around success and abundance ('I can't have it ALL surely?'). And I feared failure too, obvs.
But I didn't know I was getting full on KINKY PLEASURES from AVOIDING success - in that I got to AVOID being powerful and successful.
Which meant I secretly got all the love, attention, security, control, and an easy life - basically #allthekinkypleasures - by staying as I was and not creating the vision I SAID (hear 'moaned' - over and over and over) that I longed for.
I was putting myself in VICTIM to success. Acting like it was impossible for me, whilst also sabotaging it because of fear.
And it was innocent. I didn't realise I was handing over my power to my unconscious fear of success.
I certainly didn't realise that it was due to the fear of my power.
I most definitely didn't realise that I was powerfully creating from the fear dichotomy - the untrue story - that I could "EITHER have SUCCESS OR I could stay ENERGISED".
🔥 It looked like it was an option for one or the other. Like "success = burn out" was true.
And so, I avoided so much action. I distracted, I avoided, I procrastinated, I self-sabbotaged. I said I didn't know what I wanted. I said I didn't know how to create it.
In other words, for years, I avoided creating my healing business as a legitimate, professional, thriving practice because I was in fear that I would get too successful and that would have me burn out again.
Fear was choosing to create for me - a myth that I'd not consciously chosen. And I didn't even realise.
And yet, as I've learned to embody my Feminine, I've healed so much around this. I know that this statement is NOT true.
I have learned to love the scared younger parts of me that learned I had to create my business from hustle, confusion, stress, overwhelm, and lack of support.
And I've learned to create from a place of:
🌹Relaxed softness
🌹Openness
🌹Support (from a team and systems that allow me to stay in flow)
🌹Love (for myself and my clients)
🌹Magic
🌹Power
🌹Truth
🌹Being in full expression of my Feminine (and that doesn't mean from doing less, btw - more on that another time).
Ultimately, I learned to create my abundant healing business as a LEADER in ALIGNMENT with my deepest PURPOSE.
Which - by the way - will NEVER have you burn out. And will create 'success' in a new way you never knew existed (you got to 'success' in your corporate career, right - and it didn't feel all that great?!)
Burn out is a symptom. It is a sign that you are creating from fear and that you are out of alignment with who your soul came here to be. You're out of alignment with your gifts.
Burn out wasn't created BY your career - it was created as a trauma response to what you learned as a little girl about success.
And if it's something you're still taking into your business as an aspiring Feminine healing leader, then it's a sign that you're here to redefine the dichotomy of success = burn out.
Because there is another way...
And it begins with more fully embodying your Feminine power, magic and truth. 🌹
Join our Secret Witch Society because we'll be exploring the Feminine Witch Queen next month as a healing remedy for all of the above.
All my love 🖤
if you've any questions, send me an email.
Nicole x
