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How Your Nervous System Fuels Career Burnout
Season 2
Episode 77
Published 4 weeks ago
Description
Lucas and Luna explore the connection between your autonomic nervous system and career burnout. Drawing on Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory, they explain how chronic workplace stress keeps your body in a state of low-grade fight-or-flight, draining energy and focus long before you feel exhausted. Lucas shares how recognizing his own 'ventral vagal' shutdown helped him recover, and Luna describes a simple breathing reset she uses between client calls. This episode offers a practical framework for understanding burnout not as a mental failure but as a physiological response, plus tools to signal safety to your nervous system using social engagement cues. If you've ever felt fine but foggy, this one's for you.