Welcome to Alive and Well, the podcast for the new era of high achievers.

You're done burning out, and you're ready to lead, work, and live in a rhythm that honors

both your brilliance and your body. I'm your host, Michelle Grocer. I'm a trial attorney turned nervous system strategist, and I've

lived the burnout story. I know what it's like to chase your goals at the expense of your well-being.

And I also know it doesn't have to be that way. Here, we're redefining success. It's where productivity feels peaceful,

boundaries feel like freedom, and energy comes from within. Each week, I'll share practical

tools for nervous system regulation, time mastery, and somatic strategies so you can show up with clarity,

calm, and confidence in every part of your life. Because you, my friend, were given a spirit

of power, love, and a sound mind. So here's to life and living it fully. This is the path to feeling alive and

well. Let's dive in. What's up you guys? It's Michelle here. Welcome back to Alive and Well. So glad you're

here today. This episode's going to be a big one, I think, because if you

are someone like I was, who's been doing all the work, right, all the quote-unquote work,

really working on your mindset and reframing your paradigms and working on your thoughts and

reading the books and listening to the

podcast and journaling and all the things and for some reason you still feel edgy exhausted

emotionally flat or maybe just like you're constantly white knuckling it just to get through the day

first of all it's not that you're doing it

wrong. It's just that you're actually working with the wrong tool for the job. And that's

really what we're going to unpack today. Why mindset work, as powerful and as necessary

as it can be, often isn't enough to help you truly

recover from burnout. So we're going to talk about what your nervous system actually needs.

And then I want to talk about how to start accessing a kind of regulation that, to be

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