What happens when the ambition that drives your success starts to drain the joy out of your life? For many high-achieving individuals, burnout doesn't happen overnight. It builds through perfectionism, people-pleasing, the pressure to achieve, and the belief that rest can wait until everything else is done.

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara sits down with Desislava Atanasova, a burnout psychotherapist who helps executives and high-performing individuals reconnect with themselves and their needs. Desislava shares her personal experience of burnout while managing a corporate office and building her private psychology practice, and how it changed the way she thinks about success, productivity, and balance.

Together, they explore the patterns that keep us stuck in the burnout cycle, why asking for help can feel like weakness, and how easily we begin to confuse our achievements with our identity.

This week’s episode invites you to look at your relationship with success and consider what might need to change. From learning to recognize what drains your energy to reconnecting with your needs, boundaries, and the things you enjoy, this conversation offers a different way forward. One where success isn't measured only by what you accomplish, but also by the joy, freedom, and fulfillment you experience along the way.

Some key takeaways from this episode:

• Recognize the patterns behind burnout. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, overachieving, and struggling to set boundaries can keep you pushing long after your body is asking for rest.
• Separate your identity from your achievements. Your job, productivity, and accomplishments are part of your life, but they don't define who you are.
• Reconnect with your needs and energy. Pay attention to what gives you energy, what drains you, and what brings you joy outside of work.
• Redefine what success means to you. Create space for more freedom, flexibility, and enjoyment instead of constantly chasing the next goal.

This episode is a reminder that burnout can be a signal that something needs to change. You don't have to wait until you're completely depleted to start listening to yourself and creating a different way of living and working.

About Desislava

Desislava is a burnout psychotherapist who helps executives and high-performing individuals reconnect with themselves, understand their needs, and find a healthier approach to success. Having experienced burnout herself as a high achiever and workaholic, she now develops burnout and stress-management programs to help others rediscover their potential, confidence, and joy in life.

Website: https://www.desislava.de/

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What happens when you stop performing for approval and start living from the truth of who you are?

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara is joined by Dalia MarOm, a certified hypnosis and sound healing practitioner, retreat and corporate wellness facilitator, and creator of Sonic Hypnotics. With more than 12 years of experience in the healing arts, Dalia shares her journey from performing and corporate work into the healing work she now feels deeply aligned with.

Together, they talk about using the body and voice as pathways for healing, the power of sound and hypnosis, and what it means to reconnect with your own essence. Dalia also opens up about entrepreneurship as a spiritual journey, learning not to take rejection personally, and the challenge of balancing motherhood, business, purpose, and your own wellbeing.

This week’s episode invites you to look at where you may be performing, overgiving, or carrying expectations that were never yours to begin with. What would change if you gave yourself permission to come back to yourself and trust your own voice?

Some key takeaways:

• Why reconnecting with the body can help us move beyond simply talking about what we’re experiencing
• The journey from performing for approval to using your authentic voice
• Why alignment can feel like everything suddenly starts to make sense
• How boundaries, nervous system regulation, and self-care create more space for what truly matters
• Why rejection and other people’s opinions don’t have to determine your sense of worth

Dalia also shares how sound healing and hypnosis can work together to help people reconnect with themselves, work with subconscious patterns, and create space for new patterns to emerge.

About Dalia

Dalia MarOm is a certified hypnosis and sound healing practitioner, retreat and corporate wellness facilitator, with over 12 years of experience and 500+ hours of professional training. She has a lifelong background as a performing artist, singer-songwriter, and actor, beginning in childhood.

Her work brings together sound healing and hypnosis with somatic practices, therapeutic yoga principles, Reiki, breath, voice, and guided meditation to support nervous-system regulation, deep relaxation, and meaningful transformation. She also specializes in Past Life Journeys and Life Between Lives Journeys.

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What if the problem isn’t that you’re not working hard enough, doing enough, or trying the right strategy? What if there are deeper patterns quietly shaping your success, relationships, money, health, and the way you show up in your life?

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara sits down with Daune Thompson, TEDx speaker, Success Alchemist, and Soul CEO Activator, for a deep conversation about the subconscious patterns that can keep high-achieving people stuck, even when everything looks successful on the outside. Daune shares how her own journey through overgiving, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and the pressure to prove herself ultimately led her to understand that we often spend our energy fixing the problem instead of looking at the pattern underneath it.

This week’s episode invites you to look at where your own patterns may be showing up, especially around receiving, money, visibility, relationships, and success. Because sometimes the next level isn’t about doing more. It’s about seeing what has been running the show beneath the surface and learning to lead from a deeper place.

Some key takeaways:

• Why success on the outside doesn’t always mean you’re living in alignment on the inside.
• How people-pleasing, overgiving, and self-abandonment can become hidden drivers of success.
• Why money and other areas of your life can reveal deeper patterns around receiving, worthiness, and control.
• How learning to recognize the patterns beneath your circumstances can help you stop chasing results and start leading your life differently.

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns even after you’ve achieved the success you wanted, this conversation will give you a different way to look at what’s really happening underneath.

About Daune

Daune Thompson is a TEDx speaker, success alchemist, and Soul CEO Activator who helps high-achieving leaders flip the switch on limitations personally and professionally to unlock unshakable confidence, and lead with unapologetic truth.

IG: @ideserveitnow and Website: https://ideserveitnow.com/

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