When under stress, your nervous system can fall into familiar protective patterns, often before you've had a chance to consciously choose how you want to respond. These patterns aren't bad. In fact, they may be part of what has helped you succeed. But when they start running automatically, they can keep you in cycles of burnout.

Understanding your go-to pattern and recognizing when it's sabotaging you vs helping you create the life you ultimately want is an important and often overlooked first step toward getting the health, joy and success you want.