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Heal, Survive & Thrive!

You are NOT the "Go-To" Person.. You are the Avoidant Person

Heal, Survive & Thrive!

Stephanie Lyn

Education:self-improvement, Self-improvement, Education

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Stephanie opens up about what it’s really like to be the “go-to” person the one everyone calls when they need advice, support, or a shoulder to lean on. While it can feel good to be needed, it often comes with a hidden cost: exhaustion, resentment, and burnout. Stephanie dives into why so many of us fall into this role, the toll it can take on our well-being, and what it looks like when it starts to drain your energy and happiness. She also shares her own experience of stepping back from this label, the pushback she faced, and how she learned to protect her energy without losing her compassion. If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the weight of everyone else’s problems, this episode will help you see why it happens and remind you that it’s okay to take care of yourself first. Tune in to learn how to set healthier boundaries, reclaim your energy, and show up as the best version of yourself not the burnt-out one.   For more information visit her at www.StephanieLynLifeCoaching.com   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StephanieLynCoaching LTK: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/StephanieLynStyle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielyncoach/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeg1m9pu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephanielyncoaching   Thank you for your love and support! Stephanie

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Heal, Survive, and Thrive. I am sitting here just had lunch. So we have energy right now. It is a beautiful fall day. And I love having these chats with you guys. And I wanted to talk this week about, you know, I was sitting and I was thinking about the simple fact that for me, I have always been the go-to person.

0:27.1

I've always been the go-to person in my family.

0:30.6

I feel like majority of my friends had always come to me for advice or a favor or I'm just, I've always been that kind of person.

0:41.2

And I think sometimes we can wear this, I'm the go-to person with a badge of honor.

0:47.2

We look at it like we're so needed, we're so valued, where, you know, everyone wants to be around us everyone needs something from us so that must mean we're doing something right and it's while it's a great quality because it probably means you're also a really good person and you do care and you want to help it can also be something that you've just trained people to do you've trained people

1:12.8

to realize that you are the person that they can go to for every little anything

1:18.3

whether it's event session whether it's a favor whether it's advice whether it's

1:22.1

whatever and you will be there and again I'm not trying to like say that it's a bad thing to be there for friends and family,

1:29.3

but I know for me personally, being the go-to person, like I think it's about retraining people

1:37.3

to look at you differently.

1:39.3

So, and you know what I mean.

1:41.3

You're that one person that everyone calls when something goes wrong. You're the one

1:45.1

person that gets the late text message at night because someone needs advice or someone needs help

1:50.7

and you respond and you pick up. You're the one person who is going to step in and fix things

1:57.2

and handle people's problems and make everything better and you're going to help with

2:03.2

anything that someone needs and you know you can nine times out of ten I know me I can handle

2:09.8

emergencies really well like if something starts you know shit's hitting the fan like I'm

2:14.9

full on I'm there I got it I'm organized I am that

2:17.7

person so you're now the go-to person whenever someone needs you because this is again

2:22.9

this is how you've just trained everyone the problem is is that you get burnt out you

2:28.4

get resentful you get exhausted you know your nervous system gets hijacked for sure

2:33.7

because if you're always

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