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Burnout, Self-Care, Productivity Ellyn Schinke | Head Coach, Tutor, & Notion Nerd Burnout, Self-Care, Productivity Ellyn Schinke | Head Coach, Tutor, & Notion Nerd

Nervous System Regulation: When Self-Care Becomes Another Job

Nervous system regulation is everywhere right now, and somewhere along the way it turned into another productivity hack: timers, streaks, wearable scorecards, breathwork squeezed in before the next meeting. In this episode I talk about a weekend sauna-and-cold-plunge trip that cracked this open for me, and three specific ways regulation gets quietly swapped for performance: the Optimization Trap, the Free Pass corporate wellness gives itself, and the Suppression Swap that looks like regulation but isn't. Your nervous system isn't a lever to pull for more output, it's data your systems should actually respond to. If this one lands, hit Follow and send it to someone who's currently optimizing their way past what their body is trying to tell them.

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