Balance & Beyond

We explore what happens when sharp thinking is no longer enough and how trusting the body can guide braver, cleaner decisions. We share real choices we made using a simple heavy–light check and how strategy and somatic wisdom can work together.

• trusting intelligence and noticing its limits
• the shock of realising the next chapter needs feeling
• why the nervous system won’t be reasoned with
• lineage of non-feeling and learning to feel
• using heavy or light as a practical decision tool
• reshaping a program from evergreen to cohorts
• deleting 10,000 leads to restore alignment
• reconciling rational proof with embodied faith
• expanding where intelligence lives beyond the mind

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What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t time, but the stories that keep you sprinting? We shine a clear light on depletion—the bone-deep fatigue that a holiday can’t touch—and trace it back to three patterns we see in brilliant, high-achieving women: over-responsibility, perfectionism and people-pleasing. Together with Sabina, we unpack how these habits sneak in under the banner of competence and care, and why they quietly hijack your nervous system, your calendar and, ultimately, your sense of self.

Across a grounded, practical conversation, we map the invisible trade-offs: picking up what wasn’t asked, delaying until it’s perfect, saying yes to protect harmony, and losing sight of your own needs. We talk about the bittersweet moment when success lands and feels numb, the fear of “Who am I if I’m not busy?”, and the seductive fantasy of blowing up your life for relief. Then we offer a different route—stacked micro-shifts you can start today and deeper inner work that changes how you choose, ask, and rest. Think: one boundary you can keep, direct asks at home and work, “good enough” standards that restore momentum, tiny rituals that let your system land and celebrate.

We also explore why external fixes alone don’t stick without a shift in beliefs, and how community and coaching reveal blind spots you can’t see on your own. If your mornings start with a groan or your patience is threadbare, consider this your nudge: small, honest steps can move you from depleted and reactive to spacious and grounded without waiting for a perfect window. We’re opening new Balance Beyond cohorts to help unwind the patterns behind the pace and build a life that feels as good as it looks.

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We challenge three myths about work life balance and show a practical way to define it for yourself. Growth, connection, and health can coexist when you use leverage, not longer hours, and treat balance as an ongoing practice.

• myth one: there is no single formula for balance
• defining balance by personal fulfilment and season
• myth two: balance does not block career progression
• tools that compress hours into outcomes
• shifting from time spent to influence and clarity
• myth three: balance is a journey, not a destination
• three pillars: fulfilling work, present relationships, vibrant health
• simple check-ins to rebalance through change

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Ever felt strangely exhausted even when your life looks organised on paper? We dig into the quiet force shaping so many choices: the avoidance of discomfort. Not the dramatic kind, but the subtle, anticipatory flickers—a tight chest in a meeting, a delayed email reply after you set a boundary, the micro-pauses that make you want to smooth everything over. We trace how early praise for being helpful and reliable trained a deep habit of over-responsibility, and how corporate cultures double down on this by rewarding vigilance and punishing mistakes.

From there, we connect the dots between perfectionism, people pleasing, procrastination, and over-preparing. They look different on the surface, yet they share one engine: keep discomfort away. The result is the duck-on-the-pond life—calm above, frantic paddling below. Decisions slow down as we chase 95 percent certainty, energy gets siphoned into managing reactions, and even simple choices feel dense with risk. We unpack the critical mix-up between safety and comfort, and how the nervous system over-corrects by flagging everyday stress as danger.

What changes everything is tolerance. Not fake bravado or recklessness, but the skill of holding uncertainty without shutting down. We talk about building inner safety so your prefrontal cortex stays online when stakes feel high, and we use Barack Obama’s “51 percent certainty” as a practical anchor. With tolerance, boundaries simplify, decisions get cleaner, and energy returns—not because life softens, but because you stop organising around avoidance. You learn to feel a hard moment and move anyway, trusting you can re-decide on the other side.

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We challenge the myth that life will settle and explore how to build steadiness, set boundaries, and choose yourself even when everything stays messy. Practical tools help your nervous system stand down so you can find focus and joy in small, real patches of time.

• the illusion of the clear runway
• how constant bracing exhausts your nervous system
• boundaries around time, emotion and care
• practical micro-rest and micro-focus anchors
• acceptance as a path to faster adaptation
• choosing yourself without perfect conditions
• reframing this season as the real season
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If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance.

Website: www.balanceinstitute.com
Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/
Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute

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