Episode 395: Courage, Hormones, and Healing: How to Rebuild Your Identity After Burnout with Jessica Waugh
Episode Summary What happens when the career you spent a decade building becomes a prison? Amber Fuhriman sits down with certified menopause lifestyle practitioner Jessica Waugh to unpack how childhood trauma, a devastating professional betrayal, and undiagnosed perimenopause forced a complete identity rebuild and led Jessica straight into her true purpose: helping women understand their bodies and reclaim their lives. Key Topics Covered How compartmentalized childhood trauma can stay "locked in pretty little boxes" until a career crisis blows them wide open Why women going through perimenopause symptoms are routinely gaslit by doctors and told their labs are "normal" The identity collapse that happens when you've tied your worth to a title, a certification, or an achievement Why forcing a path forward is often a signal to stop and ask what is really driving the need to control How listening to your intuition and taking the next scary step, even without a five-year plan, is what actually builds momentum Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05 Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/ Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Notable Quotes Jessica Waugh: "It basically unpacked 30 years of compartmentalized childhood trauma that I had in pretty little boxes, lots of Russian doll style, boxed up and locked up and hidden. And things that you're like, 'They're secured away, they will never come back out.' Nope, they all blew up." "Take the whisper, take the trigger, take the doubt, take the concern, take the fear as an invitation to explore." Amber Fuhriman: "Women particularly, we have this programming that you just aren't meant to fall apart. That you've gotta have it all buttoned up. That you're never supposed to have a human moment. That you're supposed to put yourself on hold for everybody around you." "I've been chasing the people running away from me. Let me save you, and then there's these people that are flailing, that are saying, 'But wait, I'm here.' And I don't even see them." Guest Info Jessica Waugh Certified Menopause Lifestyle Practitioner and National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Jessica is the founder of The Pause Effect, co-creator of Hot Flash Heroes (an annual October community education event for women), and Managing Director at eWomen Network Las Vegas. Her work focuses on supporting women through perimenopause and menopause, closing the gap between dismissed symptoms and real, personalized care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.