Your mind alone won't get you to where you want to go..
Tracey Burns
Transformation coach For Professional Women: Empowering women to achieve fulfilment and success in a nourishing and sustainable way.
I wanted to share a bit about my journey which Im sure many can relate to:
For a long time, I was so stuck in my head, living in a state of high functioning anxiety, where stress, being addicted to challenges, being busy, and constanlty doing, had become my “normal”
You see I didn’t recognise it as stress, I didn’t see it as living in survival or in my mind. In fact I prided myself on how much shit I could get done, how much I could handle and juggle.
It had become my baseline- my body could handle a lot of adrenalin and cortisol.
It felt “normal’ to me to be operating at this level.
I was unconscious to my patterns of wanting to prove myself, this obsession with achieving, needing the external validation to feel good enough, so worried about what other people thought of me…people around me would comment on my ability to handle stress.
Underneath all of this, was debilitating self-doubt , a constant feeling of being overwhelmed. It was a relentless cycle of achieving, hustling, and doing—all to mask that persistent feeling of not being enough.
I remember one time when I was working in Advertising, I collapsed at work..I thought I had had a stroke, I couldn’t feel the left side of my body, my face was tingling, my heart was racing. I was rushed to hospital, and underwent a series of tests to find out what had happened. I was told there was nothing wrong with me and it was probably just stress.
I took myself off to the Golden Door- a health retreat in Australia, to rest, to detox, to calm my nervous system. But even then I was oblivious to the deeper patterns driving my behaviour.
It was all or nothing for me—until burnout forced me to confront the reality of my unsustainable lifestyle.
So many people are living in this way- unconsciously. Unaware of the patterns and programmes running their life.
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So many of us are living in this unconscious cycle, unaware of the patterns dictating our lives. It often takes a crisis—a breakdown in relationships, a health scare, or sheer emotional and physical exhaustion—to jolt us awake and compel us to seek change.
But even then, the journey to self-awareness is fraught with challenges. We consume endless self-help content, seek therapy, and make progress, only to find ourselves slipping back into old habits. It's a frustrating cycle—a constant battle between our minds and our spirits.
Because, change hasn't been embodied and integrated into your being.
Your mind is what created the patterns in the first place and its what t will continue to sabotage your success.
I saw this at the 3 day NTT event I was assisting at- whether it was doctors, or lawyers, teaches, traders, tradies or coaches- they all had one thing in common- they were stuck in their mind and the patterns and programs of their past. EVERY single one of them.
The key, I've come to realize, is to move beyond the confines and constructs of our minds and reconnect with our truth.
It's about releasing the energetic blocks around our hearts, healing old wounds, and embracing our authentic selves.
The mind is a powerful tool, but true liberation lies in connecting with our spirit—the essence of who we are beyond our thoughts and beliefs.
So, if you’re ready to commit to yourself, to finally break free from your patterns that are sabotaging your fulfilment and success in life, I’d love to help.
Let me shine a light on the shadows and patterns playing out in your life that are keeping you stuck and how you keep sabotaging your own success in life.