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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for watching. This
shows all about giving you insights and showcasing brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
As always, I want to kick out your morning with
some motivation advice to help you to feel inspired and
energize to start your day today. I want to talk
for the importance of understanding it's never too late to
break the cycle and rewrite your story. The reality is
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most of us are stuck with the same limiting beliefs
that will remain with us day by day and decade
by decade. When the loop that plays in our minds
remains the same, it isn't surprising that we keep getting
the same undesirable results. Oftentimes, feeling stuck or frustrated stems
from being stuck in a loop of thoughts and beliefs
that no longer serve us. But the good news is
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that it's never too late to break that negative loop
and start making new decisions. In fact, you can decide
right now. You are the author, director, and main character
in your story, and every day we have the ability
to let go of the old story and rewrite it
by simply changing our beliefs. You and you alone decide
how your story goes as the scene goes, stop being
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the past, break the pattern, now or tomorrow becomes a
copy of today. Next up on the show, we have
resilience coach and award winning entrepreneur Tracy Doyle. Tracy, thank
you so much for being on the show today. How
are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm great. Thanks, It's just an honor to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, thank you for being here. You are a resilience
coach that helps women go from emotional burnout to connection.
And I know it all started because of your own
journey with burnout. So tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, you know, for me, I grew up always believing
that I had to sacrifice myself for everyone right, for
my family, for my job, you know, for just about
anyone in my life. And that belief actually took me
on a journey. And you know, for me, you know,
it was it was a story where it was December
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twenty first, it was around Christmas time, nineteen ninety nine,
and it was a cold, gray winter's day, and I'm
getting ready for work and I'd get a glimpse of
myself in the mirror. I didn't recognize myself. My eyes
were hollow, and my spirit was dim and I mean
I just looked so empty. And in that moment, I
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just was like, I'm done, you know, I'm done taking
care of my mental ill mom. I'm done being responsible
for my sister's kids because I had custody of them.
You know, I had a big job. I'm done being
you know, pulled in every single direction at work. I'm
done being the fixer. I'm done, you know. And I
thought if I just got good and drunk, maybe I'd
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crash the car. You know, this is where Burnett had
taken me. And later that night I was like jolted
awake by someone knocking on my car window and yelling
like are you okay? Are you okay? And I was
like what, Like what what have I done? You know?
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And and I my car was facing oncoming traffic. I
was a hairway from a head of the vision, and
like I was a wreck. And the shame, the guilt.
That next day, at a walk to a school meeting
because I had gone through with this, I'm crying in
the police car like please, like it's my can't handle
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a life anymore. And you know, that next day it
was like my head and my heart were fighting and
it was like, Tracy, how could you do that? You know,
and yet my heart is going Tracy, but you're still here. Yeah,
and you know, and that's what I realized. You know,
sacrifice doesn't mean abandoning yourself. It's sacrificing yourself. Doesn't mean
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abandoning yourself. It means putting yourself first while you're managing
it all. And for me, that's really the first step,
right I meant it meant for me, I had to
get help. And what felt like ten years of this
journey of getting help, you know, that's when I realized,
you know, it wasn't my job burning me out, It
wasn't my mother burning me out. It wasn't all the
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responsibilities burning me out. It was me. And you see,
I had this belief that I didn't belong and I
thought that if I sacrificed myself for everyone, and I
gave one hundred and ten percent of myself to everyone,
well then maybe I would. And so you know, when
I learned how to reshape what shaped me, that's when
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I found my way back, you know, to myself, to
my voice, to my life, and to the people that
I love. And so that's really what that journey. Really,
what that burnout journey took me through.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We live in a society that really promotes hustle culture
and to keep striving. So how do you help your
clients slow Downyeah?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, so you know, the demands out there are the
demands out there. What I've learned is that it's it's
our own inner belief that drives us to keep trying
to meet that demand. Because why we're afraid. We're afraid
we're going to lose our job. We're afraid we're going
to lose what we have, our money, our home, whatever
it is. And so on my journey, what I learned
and what I teach is that we have to recognize
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how our life experiences have shaped our thinking, how our
thinking drive us to burn out, and more importantly, to
relationship conflicts, because what happens in this hustle and bustle
is we're human doers. We do and we do, and
we do and we do and we do, and you know,
we expect everyone to understand what we're doing. And when
they don't, we start to implode, right, So we lose
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touch with ourselves, and then we start losing touch with
everyone else because we start exploding right, So we're imploding.
We're exploding. And so what I do to help others
is I help them recognize how, you know, what beliefs
are driving them, you know, what fear is triggered from
that belief and then how that fear is driving us
to these crazy places, and how do we build bridges
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back to ourselves into the people who matter in our life.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's amazing how our beliefs really shape our reality, right.
I mean, when our beliefs are off, then our whole
lives are off.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Right, exactly exactly what I learned was, you know, and
I'm going to share some things that I've learned over
the years of this journey. You know I've come to
understand by working with others, is that we're all wounded. Right.
We just hear me out on this. We've all had
experiences in our lives that shape us, right, and so
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you know, some people it's trauma. For other people, it's
a super critical parent that puts super high demands on them.
And irrespective of way over here to something where someone
will say, oh, that really wasn't a wound, what happens
is is our wounds matter because it's how we internalize it.
And so when we start internal these things, what starts
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to happen is is it shapes the belief. I'll give
you one example. So for me, my mom was she
had mental illness. She basically you know, had me as
a teenager. She married when I was seven, and my
stepdad's mom didn't accept me, and she you know, treated
me poorly. She called me names. And the way I
internalized that experience was that a huge trauma. No, but
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it was a wound because the way I internalized it
was I don't belong and that belief I don't belong
drove me, you heard it to sacrificing myself for everybody right,
took me all the way to burnout, and every time
I tried to get out of burnout, the pattern kept
repeating itself over and over and over again. So for me,
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helping others is all about helping them recognize, you know,
how those what wounds for them matter, How did it
shape them, how is it driving them? And what do
we do to reshape it? And that that's where mindfulness
comes in.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And Tracy, you talk about you had a lot of
success in your career when you first started out, but
you still felt sad so tell us about that and
how success wasn't what you thought it would be.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, you know, So for me what was happening was
I based on my experiences early on my early life experiences.
I had another experience right where my stepdad was. He
was an alcoholic, and you know, and I stepped up
for my family, and I was doing a lot of
things too as a young child to help my siblings
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and to help my mom. And so for me, that
experience shaped this belief that like, the only way to
get out is if I get out right, and I
had to achieve. So I started really focusing on school
and I became an overachiever. And so for me, you know,
that overachieving and I was what I call a human
doing right. I was doing, doing, doing, doing, doing. I
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was never taking time for myself, and the more I did,
the emptier I felt because I had nothing left to give.
I was just giving, giving, giving family, to job, to this.
And I could be sitting in a room with a
whole room full of people and feel alone and isolated
because I had disconnected so much from myself and my
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needs and my wants because I was doing for everyone else,
and overachievement and high performance took me there, you know.
And the secret thing that I learned, and I call
this the secret, but the thing for me that was
the big aha, was I was hiding behind that performance
because again I believed I didn't belong So if I
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kept achieving and achieving and achieving, you'd see me and
you'd recognize me, and you'd think I belonged to right. Meanwhile,
that was the secret behind my problem, but I didn't
know it. So I was I was actually hiding behind
that high performance and meanwhile, not at all running away
from myself and my own feelings, and not even like
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staying present in the moment. And that's again, that's where
mindfulness comes in with burnout because we you know, for
those of us who are high performance, which there are
many of us. I believe that every woman I know
is CEO of life. You know, we're just out there
taking care of all of this, and meanwhile we abandon
what's in here.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And Tracy, you are the creator of the Aurora method,
tell us what it is and how it helps people
become more resilience.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, so first let me give some background on it.
So you know, the Aurora method was born out of
various experiences in my life in the burnout recovery journey itself.
Because here's the thing. When you're trying to overcome burnout.
If anything you read from the experts, any if you
go and read studies and papers and things like that,
they tell you the number one treatment is change your
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mindset and change your attitude and outlook on life. And
when you're in the depths of burnout, you're like, how
how do I do that? So the Aurora method is
all born out of my journey for discovering how because
here's what happened for me. You know you heard my story.
I took it all the way to the end, right,
I mean, I just didn't want to live anywhere. Polease
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out there. If you're in that place, get help. The
thing with burnout is is the key signal is conflict.
What starts to happen is those wounds that they sit
in our unconscious mind, they start to distort how we think,
how we feel, and how we relate to other people,
and all of a sudden, it feels like we're in
conflict with everyone and we're reacting. And it's those reactions
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where we explode or we implode that we were like,
is this ever going to get better? So what the
arema that helps you do? It's four pieces, four parts.
The first part is really looking at how your life
experiences shape your thinking. But from there you gain emotional
clarity and looking at the patterns that it creates for
you and the conflicts that it's created. Now you're seeing
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it and you're naming it. Once you name it, you
have the ability to change it by creating your own
personalized mindfulness approach. Most people will say, use affirmations, you know,
basically do breathing exercises. And I know for me, back
when I was trying to overcome people would say just
say I'm enough. For say I'm worthy, it didn't work
for me. But now now that I know, one of
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my wounds was I don't belong. What do I say
I'm worthy? As I am, I belong right here. So
I help people get to that point of knowing what's
personal to them, and then from there it's conscious intention,
conscious action. Because burnout fractures our relationships too. Let's face it,
we don't just burn out, we start to burn out
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the people around us because of our distance. We pull
away from people because we're imploding we react to people,
so we're exploding. So what your worm method does is
help you build bridges back to others. So with that
conscious awareness, you're able to speak your truth, say what
you mean, mean what you say right, and not back
off and say no, I'm not going to do that
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because you're understanding what's striving you now, and you have
your own personalized mindfulness that you can practice daily, you
can practice in the moment, you can practice it in
a storm. And so essentially you're building bridges back to others.
You're improving your communication, you're finding your clarity, you're finding
your confidence. That's how I help others.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And you are the author of life Storm is finding
a clear sky. So how do you help people find
the rainbow after a storm?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah? After the storm? Yeah no, So Live Storm is
finding your clear sky. Actually it's my only book. And
let me just show everyone. You know what this is about.
It's my journey and the way that I structured this
is I wanted you to understand how my life experienced
to shape my thinking. And then I introduced you to
what I call the reaction cascade because for those of
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us who have those reactions and we're struggling and burnout.
It's like, here's the trigger, there's the reaction, what's in between?
And so basically what it does is it shows you,
step by step how to work through the auroramath that
I call this the Bible of the Aurora meath. That
it's all laid out here and I've written it in
a tone where I just want to be your guide.
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I want to show you how to work through it.
And that's what the book's about. And finding your clear
sky is nothing more than getting that clar that you
need to not only overcome your burnout, but have lasting
change with your burnout, because burnout can come back. And
when you learn how to, as I said, see it
and name it and change it, it's practices that you
can apply very practically every day. And let's face it,
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we all stop it. Like we go on a diet.
We stop the diet, you'll stop those mindfulness practices. But
when the storm starts to come back, you know what
to do.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What are some practical tools that our viewers can take
today to stop overthinking because I feel like a lot
of people can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, overthinking is a challenge. It leads us a lot
to the implosion, right, and to social isolation because it's
like invisible walls around us because we keep going and
going and going. That's really where the mindfulness comes in.
So you know the thing with the aurormathod is, and
I was saying this earlier. When you start to look
at how your wounds shaped your beliefs, what you then
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experience is the reaction cascade when your triggers on't explain it,
so trigger happens, that belief is awake and all of
a sudden, Oh my gosh, this is an anosecond. By
the way, I'm not good enough. Fear gets like ignited, right,
Tony Robbins says, he says three core fears. I love
his work and it keeps it simple. I'm afraid of
losing what I have. I'm afraid that I'll never get
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what I want, or I'm afraid of being less than er,
getting less than I desire. And then it takes us
into negative thinking and we're trapped in this city of limitation. Right.
That city of limitation is driven by fear, and it's like,
oh my god, if this happens, oh my god, then
that's not going to happen. Oh my god, oh wait right,
So what I teach very simple. I'm removing my fear
and I'm replacing it with what oftentimes it's I'm trusting
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that everything's going to be okay. I'm trusting that all
is well whatever it might be. And so if I'm
never going to get something, I'm trusting it's all going
to work out right, And so you have to redirect
it and you have to disrupt it. Because when we're
burned out, we feel like everything is impossible, but we're
overwhelmed with the overthinking everything's impossible. So if we're going
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to make possible, happen to disrupt it first. And the
Aurora method shows you how to do that very simply
and very practically.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And Tracy, I created my platform to inspire, to uplift
and to really showcase that anything is possible. So for
any faur of youers going through a hard time and
maybe are not seeing their dreams manifest, what would you
say to inspire and uplift?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Then I would say two things. The one is you're
not broken, and you're not broken you're brave, right because
if you recognize you have a problem, you know what
to do about it. Because there's there's a solution. And
the other thing I'll say is what was shaped can
be reshaped because once you see it and name it,
you can change it. You are empowered to actually bring
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everything you want to yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And Tracy, four of viewers that want to connect with
you and get coached with you personally, how can they do?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So? Yeah, So what I always recommend is scheduling a
one on one because you know, we're all in different
phases of burnout and I don't want anyone to think
that I'm the be all, end all and burnout, and
so I always recommend a consultative session for It's free
for thirty minutes. Meet with Tracy dot coach. Schedule that
one on one. But if you want to learn more,
you can check out my website which is Tracydoyle dot
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life t r a c Y d O y l
E dot life and meet with Tracy t r a
c Y dot coach.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Very nice. We're going to link that information below so
our viewers can see it. Racy, thank you so much
for being on the show today and keep up the
amazing work.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
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