COMPASSION FATIGUE CURE
From Burnout to Radiance for Women Healers Over 50
You’re not burned out because you’re weak, ungrateful, or doing it wrong.
You’re burned out because your nervous system has been carrying too much responsibility for too long — without relief.
This podcast exists for women who are:
Highly competent
Deeply caring
Still showing up
And quietly running past capacity
Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse.
Often, it looks like continuing to function while slowly losing yourself.
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WHAT THIS PODCAST ACTUALLY ADDRESSES
Compassion Fatigue Cure explores burnout and compassion fatigue as physiological and relational conditions, not mindset failures.
Inside the conversations, we look at:
Why exhaustion persists even after rest
How over functioning becomes a nervous system pattern
The link between caregiving, identity erosion, and resentment
Why “better boundaries” often don’t work
How chronic stress reshapes capacity, emotion, and meaning over time
This is not motivational content.
It is clinical orientation for women whose bodies are signaling overload.
IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, START HERE
If you:
Feel exhausted but can’t stop functioning
Are increasingly irritable, numb, or resentful
Wonder why success hasn’t brought relief
Sense that something deeper than stress is happening
Your nervous system is likely stuck in a survival pattern — and it needs accurate feedback, not pressure.
Identify How Burnout Is Showing Up in Your Body
Burnout does not look the same in every nervous system.
The Somatic Signature Quiz helps you identify the specific pattern your body is using to survive chronic stress — so you stop treating the wrong problem.
(This is a diagnostic starting point, not a personality test.)
Start With the Full Framework
If you want the deeper structure behind this work:
In Pursuit of Soul Joy offers a 12-week, nervous-system-informed approach to understanding burnout and compassion fatigue — and restoring capacity without dismantling your life.
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MEET YOUR HOST
Dr. Julie Merriman is a PhD-prepared counselor educator, professor, author, and burnout researcher with more than three decades of experience supporting professional helpers.
After years of leading graduate programs, directing counseling departments, and speaking at national conferences, Julie began to see a troubling pattern: the very women she served—highly intelligent, advanced-degree professionals in healthcare and mental health—were quietly burning out at alarming rates while still appearing “successful.”
Today, Julie brings academic rigor and lived experience together to guide accomplished women over 50 through the intersecting pressures of midlife, professional responsibility, chronic caregiving, and perimenopause.
Through her work at Soul Joy, Julie blends neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and compassionate storytelling to help physicians, therapists, nurses, educators, and other high-responsibility women restore capacity, clarity, and vitality—without dismantling their lives.
Whether she’s unpacking nervous-system research or sharing candid insights from her own journey, Julie returns to one grounded truth:
You’re not broken. You’re overwhelmed.
And your most meaningful chapter is still ahead.