Podcast Episode #18 - Burnout or Awakening? How to Know What You’re Really In
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[00:00:00] Hello, and welcome back to yet another inspirational podcast episode, brought to you by yours truly, Carina from Healery. I'm your truth speaker, truth seeker, truth keeper, and I am so glad that you're here with me today Hey, it's Carina, and welcome back to Soul Medicine. Before I even touched the mic this week, I do what I always do, I pulled the tarot cards.
I asked Spirit, "What does a collective need to hear? Not what will sound good, not what will be palatable, but what will set them [00:01:00] free?" And what came through wasn't gentle. It was a wake-up call. Queen of Cups, Four of Swords reversed, Seven of Swords reversed, Nine of Swords reversed, Five of Wands reversed.
Each one spoke the same message, "Wake up." Spirit said, "Stop romanticizing your exhaustion. Stop calling numbness protection. Stop hiding behind being the strong one." This isn't an episode to make you feel comfortable. This is a defibrillator for the soul. So take a deep breath, because this one's gonna hit where it hurts and where you're ready to heal.
You keep saying you're tired, but what you really mean is that you've been living with your light on low for too long. [00:02:00] You scroll, you soothe, you shrink. You call it being realistic, and spirit calls it forgetting. We've built an empire of avoidance. Nervous systems wired like alarms, but heart's half asleep.
You think you're surviving, but what you're actually doing is stalling your rebirth. If you've felt like your sensitivity is breaking you, it's not. It's your soul clawing at the walls of its cocoon, desperate to breathe again. And let me be blunt because, well, honesty's the best policy, right? You're overdosing on empathy and starving for truth The Queen of Cups showed me the empaths drowning in everyone [00:03:00] else's pain, calling it purpose.
The Four of Swords reversed revealed the collective pretending to rest while secretly clutching the sword of worry. And the Seven of Swords reversed, that's the moment the mask slips. The lie that says, "I'm fine," you're not fine. You're fractured. Your fractures are where the light gets in. Your compassion isn't the problem.
Your refusal to feel your own ache is. You've mistaken carrying others for connecting with them. You've mistaken busyness for devotion. And Spirit's asking you to stop betraying your own heart in the name of being good And I just want you to, for a moment, [00:04:00] close your eyes and just breathe. Take a few deep breaths in
And now ask yourself, where does the exhaustion live? Feel into it
Is it in the chest? The throat? The belly? Let your body be the guide. Let it speak to you
That heaviness you're feeling right now That's the tax you pay for betraying your own sensitivity And it hurts, doesn't it? I can feel your emotions rising as I speak this [00:05:00] truth to you. That uncomfortable wave that you know is co- coming, but you can't suppress, even when you try to swallow it back down That's not weakness.
That's truth finally pushing its way to the surface Because you're tired of fighting yourself, tired of holding it all together while quietly falling apart inside
So don't fight it anymore, darling. Here is your permission to let the tears fall freely Don't force them, don't question them, don't judge or try to fix them
Just let them fall [00:06:00] You're safe here with me now
And as you breathe Spirit shows me something Not women drowning in still water, but women rising from a cracked riverbed. The drought has ended. The first drops of rain hit the earth, and steam rises from their skin. Tears become holy water, washing dust from their faces They don't look fragile. They look reborn This is what happens when you stop holding it in.
You don't [00:07:00] break, you bloom. You don't drown, you remember how to breathe again
The Nine of Swords reversed reminded me fear is just energy with nowhere to go. The Five of Wands reversed whispered, "The war you're fighting isn't out there. It's inside you Sensitivity isn't a curse, it's a sacred intelligence. You were built with, um, an instrument of perception, a barometer of truth, and even instruments need tuning
When you clear the static, your sensitivity becomes prophecy. You start hearing spirit again, not in signs, but in silence. You stop trying to fix [00:08:00] everything and start feeling what's real. You are the river and the flame. Water that cools, fire that purifies. This is the phoenix frequency. Burn to breathe again
If you're trembling right now, good, because that's spirit moving through your nervous system, burning through what's no longer yours to hold. Now it's time to anchor that energy back into your body. I created a free guided meditation to help you ground and protect your energy, to flush out the static and come home to yourself whenever you need it.
You can download it from my website via the link in the show notes. It's free. Don't wait, just download it. Let it bring you home. And if your soul has been [00:09:00] craving connection, the real soul deep connection of a sisterhood, I invite you into the Temple of Becoming, my new soul medicine circle, a 60-minute online sanctuary on Wednesday the 26th of November at 7:00 p.m.
Australian Eastern Standard Time via Zoom. The investment is $40, and spaces are limited to six women, so the energy stays tender and true. This isn't a class, it's a remembering, a circle where the sensitive are celebrated, the weary are held, and the wild hearts come home to themselves, where strength is no longer hardness, it's the soft pulse of truth moving through your chest.
Inside this space, we'll breathe, release, and return again[00:10:00]
and again to what's real. You'll find all the juicy details in the show notes, but what matters most is this: when you step into this circle, you'll remember you are not alone. Your softness is sacred, and your quiet strength was never lost, only waiting to be seen And before I go today, I just want us to do a very quick embodiment ritual.
So I invite you to place a hand on your heart, one hand on your belly. I just want you to feel the electric hum beneath your skin That's your life force coming back online
And I want you to whisper, "I am done sleeping through my own [00:11:00] life."
And I want you to inhale like you're drawing light from the earth itself. A big deep breath in. And exhale like you're releasing centuries of silencing Oh, how good does that feel? Let that cocooned hair, let the wings sting. This is what rebirth feels like
You didn't come here to manage pain. You came here to transmute it. So ask yourself this week, "Where am I still confusing comfort with safety?" Because the soul doesn't grow in comfort, it grows in truth. Until [00:12:00] next time, when the fear rises, come back to your body and remember, just because it was doesn't mean it will be.
With love, Carina.