People pleasing rarely looks like a problem. It looks like being dependable, reliable, the one who always says yes.

Content note: this episode contains a personal account of burnout including a period of intense despair. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust. If you feel unsafe or unable to cope right now, please contact local emergency services or a crisis support line.

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Chris Wilson sits down with Vienna based psychosocial counsellor, trainer and author Iris Muche to look at how people pleasing quietly drives burnout. The link between being productive and being likeable, where the pattern is learned, and what the first honest no actually feels like.

Drawing on her own burnout and years of psychosocial training, Iris treats people pleasing as a learned pattern rather than a character flaw, which makes it something you can work with.

• The productivity and lovability link, and how early it gets wired in
• Where the pattern comes from, and why it is so well rewarded
• What the first honest no feels like, and what happens after it

Season 2, Episode 9

Find Iris Muche: https://www.irismuche.com and on Instagram at @irismuche

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Burnout does not only live in the mind. It shows up in the face: the jaw you clench, the brow you hold, the tension you stopped noticing years ago.

Chris Wilson sits down with Vienna based face yoga teacher and presence work practitioner Nathalie Romina Marktler to talk about what faces hold and why we so rarely notice. Nathalie describes her work as presence rather than cosmetics, and guides Chris through a live jaw release you can follow along with.

If burnout has left you tense and unable to switch off, this is a gentle place to start rather than a technique to master.

• What the face holds, and why the tension stops registering
• Face yoga framed as presence work rather than appearance
• A live jaw release you can follow along with

Season 2, Episode 8

Find Nathalie Romina Marktler: https://mirrorencounters.com and on Instagram at @mirrorencounters

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High performers are often the worst at resting, and it is not because they do not know how. It is because rest has to be earned first.

Simone Arlits spent more than fifteen years in corporate leadership before her body told her what her calendar never had. She talks with Chris Wilson about why rest gets treated as a reward rather than a strategy, about the giver pattern that keeps people available past the point of usefulness, and about the practical changes that make slowing down possible without guilt attached.

They also get into hustle culture, and what she found helped her own recovery.

• Why rest gets framed as something you earn, and who that serves
• The giver pattern, and how it outlives the job that created it
• Small practical changes that make slowing down survivable

Season 2, Episode 7

Find Simone Arlits on LinkedIn, and on Instagram at for.rest.mentoring

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