The road to burnout is paved with good intentions...

The saying goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", meaning even though you have good intentions your inaction or actions can lead to negative consequences or results.

I was watching the remake episode of The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 30,000 feet. The premise is an investigative journalist boards a flight only to find a tape with a true-crime podcast with the same flight number; The Disappearance of Flight 1018. With the story unfolding as he listens, the main character becomes agitated and tries to "save" everyone from the impending doomed flight. He investigates certain characters on the plane to the point he gets restrained for his irrational and suspicious behaviour until a passenger believes him that the podcast is real and that the flight will disappear off the radar. The only thing is that the passenger, unknowingly to the journalist was on a path of self-destruction and saw an opportunity to take control of the flight and crash the plane. I won't spoil the rest of the ending but the moral to the story is the investigative journalist failed to look at himself and the part he was playing as the story unfolded which had all good intentions but ultimately led to his own demise.

How many times in life do we try to control, manage and manoeuvre the people, our families, the situations around us so tightly that it becomes an exhausting job at our own expense?

Getting so caught up in trying to get everything right, we forget that life has a way of unfolding around us without the tight grip of control. The seasons change without us interfering, day turns to night and when you release yourself from the identity of being busy and the roles you play, you can fully step back and allow a beautiful aligned unfolding of how it's meant to.

This is easier said than done, especially when there is little to no support around us, and wearing these identities we have built over the years, has become our main character mask. But what if we are so busy in our busy-ness we fail to find ways to receive, fill our cup and restore? We shrink, feel hollowed out and dysregulated and the cycle repeats itself. We arrive to a place in our lives where we don't know who we are...

We were never meant to do this journey alone - the myth that women can do it all is an oversold lie that keeps the modern woman trapped in toxic and unhealthy cycles of repression and not-enoughness. It keeps us in a constant state of disregulation, stress and un-loveability because nothing and no amount of effort ever feels like it's enough.

This is why true community is important as well as cultivating healthy boundaries for yourself that align with your values. You're never too much or not enough. You are exactly where you are meant to be - you are unfolding and stripping back the mask, revealing your true beautiful nature. Step back, surrender and let life breathe for you...

When you feel the call, you will know. It will be a persistent nagging feeling - one that cannot be ignored...