You Don't Have to Perform Your Worth: Unlearning Survival Roles & Nervous System Rewiring

Ever feel like you're doing all the healing work—but still stuck in the same survival loop? In this powerful episode, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Girisha Andrea Steigler, an embodiment guide and nervous system healer, to unlearn the performative patterns that high-achieving women carry: savior syndrome, overgiving, and the constant pursuit of external validation.

Together they explore the role of fascia, trauma, and stored emotion in shaping our identity—and how somatic healing offers the key to truly "leveling up." You'll hear raw stories, scientific insight, and soul-level truths that challenge the myth that success must come from struggle.

🎁 Find Girisha's work and free offerings on Instagram @girisha.andrea.steigler

📚 Explore Kathy's books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP and How I Unlearned MY Crap — now on Amazon & bookstores worldwide.

✨ Visit https://kathybaldwin.me to start your own soul-led transformation.

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🎙️ Key Highlights:

• Crap to Unlearn: The belief that self-worth must be earned through external achievements and over-functioning. Girisha had to dismantle the survival patterns of "good girl," "performer," and "savior" to reclaim her true identity.

• Kathy's Reflection: Kathy reveals her own entanglement with performance and caregiving identities—how she collapsed after being "too strong for too long."

• Embodied Healing Wisdom: Girisha explains how trauma is stored in the nervous system and fascia, and how body-based healing—not just mindset—unlocks transformation.

• High-Achiever Burnout Signs: Chronic overgiving, boundary collapse, imposter syndrome, constant productivity pressure, feeling "never enough."

• Challenged Myths: That healing must be linear, talk therapy is enough, or success equals hustle.

• Practical Reframe: Emotions aren't problems to fix—they're messengers. And healing isn't fixing yourself, it's remembering who you are underneath the programming.

• Girisha's Gift: Listeners are invited to explore her embodied work and upcoming somatic offerings via her Instagram and healing sessions.

• 💡 Memorable Quotes:

  Girisha:

  • "The body remembers what the mind forgets. That's where the truth lives."

  • "You don't heal by thinking your way through—it's in the pause, the breath, the tremble."

  • "I had to stop performing healing and actually feel it."

  Kathy:

  • "I didn't just collapse emotionally—I collapsed energetically. And in that collapse, I heard my soul."

  • "You can't level up if you're still trying to earn your worth with every step."