356. Owning Your Narrative: How To Navigate Burnout & Adopt A Healthier Inner Dialogue With Liz Beecroft, LCSW
Hurdle
Emily Abbate
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Join Emily as she welcomes back Liz Beecroft, LCSW, for a powerful conversation about the mental and emotional landscape of pursuing a healthier lifestyle. Liz brings her expertise to unpack the common hurdles we face when striving for well-being, offering practical strategies for building resilience, managing expectations, and cultivating a kinder inner dialogue. Emily and Liz offer up insights on the challenges of burnout and struggling with identity, plus how to squash negative self-talk.
IN THIS EPISODE
(6:45) Liz talks about what it was like for her to play sports without the guidance of someone like a sports therapist
(7:06) Liz talks about what it was like for her to grow up with anxiety in a small town
(10:05) How to get to a place where you can be more present when anxiety feels heavy
(11:45) How to identify helpful versus harmful emotions
(16:30) Liz recommends an app called How We Feel
(20:00) How to avoid damaging your relationships by taking ownership over your actions while navigating burnout
(24:18) What the difference is between a sports therapist and performance coach
(35:50) Conversation on identity and how to cope with being a multifaceted person
(38:45) How to reflect on your core values and beliefs to articulate the different parts of your identity
(42:37) What It looks like for Liz to be a solopreneur and own her own practice
(46:55) What Liz struggles with when it comes to what she shares on the Internet
(51:10) What Liz sees when she looks in the mirror and why this question makes her emotional
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
How To Make An Action Plan & Beat Overwhelm
SOCIAL
@emilyabbate
@hurdlepodcast
OFFERS
ASICS | Join me for the 5th annual ASICS Blue Jean Mile. Each mile is a step towards awareness and funds for mental health awareness. Learn more at Asics.com.
Lagoon Sleep | Head on over to LagoonSleep.com/Hurdle and use code “HURDLE” at checkout for 15% off
PILLAR | Head to PillarPerformance.shop, or for North American customers, head to TheFeed.com and use the code "HURDLE" for 15% off your first purchase.
JOIN: The Daily Hurdle IG Channel
ASK ME A QUESTION: Email [email protected] to ask me a question!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We're all first time humans. |
| 0:02.5 | We are going to learn. |
| 0:04.0 | We're going to change our minds. |
| 0:05.4 | We're never on a straight shot anywhere. |
| 0:07.9 | We take one step in any direction. |
| 0:10.5 | We're either going to keep going in that direction because we're going to realize if we're doing things right or we're going to learn from it. |
| 0:16.1 | And that's going to help us go in a different direction. |
| 0:40.8 | What's happening, everyone? Emily Abadi here. You are listening to episode 356 of hurdle, a wellness focus podcast where I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest highs and toughest moments to essential |
| 0:45.3 | tips on how to live, a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through our fair share |
| 0:51.8 | of hurdles. My goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move |
| 0:57.5 | with intention so that you can stride towards your own big potential and, of course, have |
| 1:03.3 | some fun along the way. |
| 1:06.1 | For today's conversation, I am bringing in my buddy Liz Beacroft. She's a licensed clinical social |
| 1:13.9 | worker and she specializes working in athlete and high performer mental health. This is Liz's |
| 1:21.5 | second appearance on the show. I'll link her first episode in the show notes when we spoke about |
| 1:26.1 | how to make a five-year plan and be |
| 1:28.8 | overwhelm. And today, she's back talking about mental strategies to show up as your most |
| 1:35.5 | authentic self, among many other things. We get into everything from how to own your no and |
| 1:42.2 | navigate overwhelm to speaking of overwhelm, how to navigate |
| 1:47.1 | burnout and the importance of speaking to others about what it is that you are going through. |
| 1:53.7 | Maybe that's a therapist. |
| 1:54.8 | Maybe that's a life coach. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Emily Abbate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Emily Abbate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.