Healing Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion: A Somatic & IFS Approach to Recovery
Burnout and emotional exhaustion are nervous system responses to prolonged stress and responsibility. Many people experiencing burnout are capable, high-functioning, and deeply committed, yet feel depleted, foggy, or unable to truly rest. This article explores what burnout really is, why rest alone is often not enough, and how chronic stress becomes stored in the body. It also explains how somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) support lasting burnout recovery by restoring safety and regulation rather than pushing for more effort.
Healing Anxious and Avoidant Attachment with Somatic Therapy & IFS Parts Work
If you find yourself overthinking, clinging, shutting down, or pulling away in relationships, you are not broken. These attachment patterns come from a nervous system that learned to protect you. Learn how somatic therapy and IFS can help you heal anxious attachment, ease avoidant tendencies, and create safer, more grounded relationships.
Parts Work Therapy: Healing Through Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS therapy helps you understand the different parts within you — the ones that push, the ones that protect, the ones that retreat, and the ones that care deeply. These parts all emerged to help you navigate stress, fear, or unmet needs. Internal Family Systems therapy teaches you how to meet these parts with curiosity instead of criticism. When you do, you build self-compassion, regulate your nervous system, and finally start to feel like you’re on your own team again.
Somatic Exercises for Nervous System Healing
Somatic therapy works directly with the nervous system through breath, sensation, and body awareness to support deep emotional healing. Trauma and chronic stress live in the body, not just the mind, which is why talk therapy alone is often not enough. This guide explains somatic experiencing, how trauma affects the nervous system, and why somatic counselling and Internal Family Systems (IFS) help you shift long-held patterns. You will learn beginner-friendly somatic exercises such as grounding, orienting, pendulation, and somatic breathwork to support nervous system regulation, reduce anxiety, and ease emotional exhaustion and burnout.