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Mental Health Transformation | Burnout to Becoming — Riki

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📣 Your anxiety is lying to you👇For years, I thought my anxiety meant…🔴 I wasn’t coping.🔴 I wasn’t strong enough.🔴 I needed to “fix” myself.💬 Comment “CALM” if you’re tired of feeling anxious all the time and I’ll send you the free training that helped me move from survival mode to actually feeling calm and in control again 💖But here’s what I wish someone had told me sooner…Anxiety isn’t a sign that something is wrong with you.It’s your body saying…“You’ve been carrying way too much for way too long” 🤍🔖 Not just work.😞 Other people’s emotions.👫 Other people’s expectations.😫 The pressure to hold it all together.😞 The need to keep proving yourself.😭 The hypervigilance.🤯 The overthinking.😩 No wonder your nervous system is exhausted. 🙇‍♀️ No wonder your body is asking you to slow down.❌ You don’t need to become stronger.‼️ You’ve just been strong for too long.🥹🥹You don’t have to earn your rest❣️ You don’t have to justify needing support and you certainly don’t have to carry everything on your own.👉 Your nervous system isn’t asking you to become someone new.It’s asking if it’s finally safe to stop surviving ❤️💬 Comment “CALM” if you’re tired of living in survival mode and I’ll send you the free training that helped me finally understand my anxious mind 💖#AnxietyHealing #NervousSystemHealing #BurnoutRecovery #HighAchievingWomen #selfcompassion by @compassionwithriki

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Your resentment is trying to tell you something 👀For years… I thought resentment was about other people.The friend.The colleague.The family member.The person asking too much.The person crossing my boundaries.The person taking more than they gave.But honestly?!Some of my deepest resentment wasn’t towards them.It was towards ME.I know… OUCH 🫠☑️ For saying yes when I wanted to say no.☑️ For staying quiet when something didn’t feel right.☑️ For abandoning myself to keep the peace.☑️ For choosing other people’s comfort over my own.And the thing about resentment?It keeps score.🔴 Every ignored need.🔴 Every swallowed truth.🔴 Every boundary you didn’t set.🔴 Every time you betray yourself.It remembers.So now when resentment shows up, I try not to judge it.I get curious.💭 What is this resentment trying to tell me?Usually the answer is simple.There’s a need I haven’t acknowledged.A boundary I haven’t communicated.Or a part of me I’ve been ignoring.Resentment has become one of my greatest teachers.💬 Comment “BOUNDARIES” if you’re done carrying what isn’t yours and I’ll send you the free training I wish I had sooner.#Boundaries #PeoplePleasingRecovery #SelfTrust #NervousSystemHealing #selfcompassion by @compassionwithriki

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Of course, healing became another thing to accomplish 😅Here me out 👇Without even realizing…I turned healing into another thing I needed to be “amazing” at.📚 Read more.🧘‍♀️ Meditate longer.📝 Journal every day.🎧 Listen to more podcasts.And don’t get me wrong, I genuinely LOVE all of these 👆I still journal, read, go to therapy and nerd out over psychology books 🤭The problem was never the habits‼️The problem was the pressure.Somewhere along the way, I turned healing into another finish line. 🥰 My best friend (we’re basically the same person in different bodies 😂 same dysfunctional upbringing, overachieving tendencies, similar identity built around excelling at literally everything 🙃) started therapy a few years after me. A year in, she asked her therapist with complete seriousness🤓So when do I get to ace this? 🏆I genuinely LOVE all of those things. 🤍 OF COURSE SHE DID 🤪We turned healing into an exam 🙇‍♀️If you’ve ever thought…💭 Why am I not further along?💭 I should be healed by now.💭 Maybe I’m just doing it wrong.Can I remind you of something? 🤍Healing isn’t something you earn.It isn’t another mountain to climb.It’s the first place you get to put the backpack down.And maybe…That’s what your nervous system has been asking for all along ❤️💬 Comment “LOVE” if you’re ready to stop performing healing and I’ll send you the free training that helped me step out of survival mode and into self-trust 💖 by @compassionwithriki

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7 days ago

If everything feels like too much… this one is for you 👇👇Overwhelm isn’t your personality.👉 It’s survival mode!!You might not realize it yet but…😩 You’re exhausted.Not because you’re weak but because you’ve been disconnected from what you actually need for so long.🧠 You overthink everythingBecause you’ve stopped trusting yourself and started trusting fear instead.🙆‍♀️ You say “yes”….Even when every part of you wants is screaming to say “no” and you call it being “nice.”Why? Keeping other people happy once felt safer than disappointing them.🏃‍♀️ Rest feels uncomfortable…because your nervous system has learned to associate “doing” with safety.So if slowing down feels hard, you’re not failing!! You’ve just been practicing survival for a very long time.🥺 You look like you have it all together!But underneath, your body has been running on stress for so long that overwhelm feels normal.🛠️ You keep trying to fix yourself… instead of finally listening to yourself.👇 Here’s what I wish someone had told me years ago…Nothing is wrong with you. Period.You are not an overwhelmed person‼️You’ve just spent so long abandoning yourself that overwhelm started to feel like your personality.You’ve just lived in survival mode for so long…that your nervous system started believing it was home.And the most beautiful thing? 🥹If your nervous system learned survival…It can learn safety too ❤️💬 Comment “READY” and I’ll send you my free masterclass Overwhelmed Isn’t Who You Are where I’ll show you exactly how I stepped out of survival mode and started trusting myself again 💖#BurnoutRecovery #NervousSystemHealing #HighAchievingWomen #Overwhelmed #selftrust by @compassionwithriki

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🥹 I thought I’d left a piece of myself behind…I thought leaving Dubai would be the hardest goodbye 💔But I’m learning…I wasn’t attached to the place.It’s the feeling of being completely myself 💖☺️ The joy.🥰 The freedom.💃🏻 The version of me that came alive every time I danced.And maybe that’s the most beautiful realization of all…That feeling was never tied to a place.It was always mine to carry ❤️p.s. I still do miss so many pieces of my home including @nkdstudiosofficial 🙏 @meerrajairaj 🩵🩵 by @compassionwithriki

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Can we talk about this for a second? 😅For the longest time, I thought I needed more time.📥 Less work.🗓️ A lighter schedule.⏰ Fewer commitments.And while those things helped…They didn’t really solve the problem.Because even when I had free time, my brain was still busy 🤯🔴 Thinking about everyone else.🔴 Worrying about everyone else.🔴 Trying to keep everyone happy.🔴 Trying not to disappoint anyone.🔴 Managing everyone else’s emotions.🫠 EXHAUSTING.That’s when I realized:I wasn’t just carrying my own life.I was carrying responsibility for everyone around me too 🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️And no amount of free time fixes that‼️One thing I’ve been practicing lately is catching myself whenever I feel responsible for someone else’s reaction, mood or choices.And asking:💭 Is this actually mine to carry?Simple question.Huge shift.👇 If you’re exhausted all the time, it might not be because you’re doing too much.It might be because you’re carrying too much!!💬 Comment “TRUST” if you’re tired of being everything for everyone and I’ll send you the free training I wish I had before I burnt out 💖 by @compassionwithriki

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I don’t dream about holidays the way I used to anymore 🥹💛No one tells you this about burnout recovery👇I no longer spend my life waiting for weekends.Or the next holiday.Or that one trip that will finally make everything feel okay.Because I realized:👇❌ I was never craving a holiday.✅ I was craving a life that felt like mine 💖A life where I didn’t need to escape every few months just to breathe!That’s exactly why I left my corporate job.Not because I hated working.Because I wanted to build a life I didn’t need to escape from.That doesn’t mean every day feels magical, it doesn’t!! 😅 😞 I still feel anxious.😩 I still have hard days.🤯 I still get overwhelmed.But I don’t wake up wishing my life away anymore‼️And for me…that’s one of the greatest definitions of freedom ❤️💬 Comment “FREEDOM” if you’re ready to build a life you don’t need to escape from and I’ll send you the free training that helped me start doing exactly that 💖#BurnoutRecovery #NervousSystemHealing #HighAchievingWomen #HustleCulture #mentalhealthjourney by @compassionwithriki

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A lie about laziness👇👇Our cultures feeds us lies about laziness.It tells us “something is wrong with you if you are failing to HUSTLE NONSTOP, TO MEET THESE UNATTAINABLE STANDARDS OF PRODUCTIVITY set for you”.When our beautiful bodies break down, tells us to stop…we are conditioned to think the opposite → we need to beat ourselves up for feeling tired, “weak”…We think the problem is:🔴 our “laziness”🔴 our inability to push through 🔴 our failure to manage our timeBut NO ⛔️The problem is our hustle culture that taught us our worth is measured by our productivity‼️When our body feels exhausted, it’s not a deficiency!!💌 It’s a message.Pay attention to your body 🤍👇 And here’s the ironic part 🤭I’ve built a life that gives me the ultimate freedom 💫 ❤️ The freedom to choose myself.💗 The freedom to move across the world when my heart tells me to.💛 The freedom to spend unhurried time with the people I love.🩵 The freedom to slow down without asking for permission.And yet…A part of me still feels like I have to earn that freedom 😅I’m still unlearning decades of conditioning that taught me to earn my worth through doing.So for now…💚 I’m just fully leaning into this move.💚 Listening to my body every single day.Even when it goes against years of conditioning.If you’ve been here for a while, you’ll know I’ve shown up on social media every single day for the last 2 years.This time…I didn’t❣️Not because I am lazy.I’m choosing to trust my body.⭐️ I’m letting myself just be.⭐️ I’m letting myself enjoy this season.⭐️ I’m letting myself settle into this new chapter without rushing to “get back.”And honestly…And honestly?I think the real work isn’t building a life that gives you freedom.It’s learning to finally receive it 🌟 I believe this version of me is the one I’ve been trying to come home to all along ♥️#mentalhealthjourney #burnoutrecovery #nervoussystemhealing #highachievingwomen #braveheart by @compassionwithriki

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From Dubai to Bangalore, (Dog travel from Dubai to India )together 💛🐶She did every bit of the paperwork herself — I was just there to guide her through the process. No agents, no unnecessary charges.Actual costs:✔️ Export Certificate – 100 AED✔️ Import Permit – ₹1,000✔️ Emirates Pet Ticket – 1,840 AEDThat’s a saving of nearly 4,000 AED compared to what many agents quote.You can do it too. DM me if you’d like my help and step-by-step assistance. ✈️🐾#pettravel #dubaï #dogtravel by @compassionwithriki

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I thought I hated my job 😅Turns out I was exhausted from living a life that didn’t feel like mine.Oof.That one took me years to understand.On paper, everything looked good.👩‍💻 The career.💵 The paycheck.🤑 The promotions.🏘️ The life I thought I was supposed to have.But underneath it all?I felt disconnected:From myself.From my needs.From what I actually wanted.And I see this all the time with my clients…We get so busy doing what’s expected of us that we stop asking ourselves a really important question:💭 Do I actually want this?Not what looks good.Not what makes sense.Not what everyone else thinks you “should” do.The burnout wasn’t coming from work alone.It was coming from constantly choosing a life built around other people’s expectations.And every time we ignore ourselves…Our body notices.Our exhaustion notices.Our nervous system notices.Because self-abandonment is exhausting 🫠One question that’s helped me more than any career advice ever has:💭 If nobody else’s opinion mattered, what would I choose?Sit with that one.💬 Comment “FREEDOM” if you’re tired of repeating the same patterns and I’ll send you the free training that helped me become myself again 💖 by @compassionwithriki

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You don’t have a burnout problem.Okay maybe you do 😅But hear me out for a minute...The thing that finally changed my life wasn’t learning how to “manage” burnout.It was realising how often I was abandoning myself👇🔴 Ignoring my needs.🔴 Pushing through exhaustion.🔴 Being the easy one, strong one…🔴 Saying yes when I actually wanted to say no.And then wondering why I felt so resentful all the time 🫠💬 Comment “CALM” if you’re tired of being everything for everyone and I’ll send you the free training I wish I had before I burnt out 💖For the longest time I thought burnout was caused by work.But looking back?I realize that it happened due to years/decades of leaving myself out of the equation.And honestly, I still catch myself doing it, especially when:💛 When I’m scared.🧡 Life feels uncertain.💚 When anxiety shows up.The difference now is I notice it sooner and ask myself:💭 What would I do if I stopped abandoning myself for a second?Try it.The answer is usually very revealing ✨💬 Comment “CALM” if you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed all the time and I’ll send you the free training that changed everything for me 💖 by @compassionwithriki

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Nobody tells you this about burn out 👇👇💭 Comment “RESET” and I’ll send you the free training on how I went from survival mode to actually feeling calm and in control again 💖A few years ago, I burnt out.Like properly burnt out…Quit my corporate job 3 years ago ➡️ gifted myself a gap year to just breathe and recover ➡️ before pursuing coaching full-time (because I really didn’t want to carry my old patterns into this chapter 😅)And if I’m honest...I genuinely thought rest was going to “fix” everything.✅ A break.✅ A holiday.✅ A few months off.✅ Some space to breathe.And don’t get me wrong...It did help 💖But I realised…I wasn’t exhausted because I needed a break from work.I was exhausted because of the way I was living🔴 The pressure.🔴 The perfectionism.🔴 The people pleasing.🔴 The inability to slow down without feeling guilty.🔴 The constant feeling that I needed to earn my worth.And the hardest part?I carried a lot of those patterns into recovery too 🫠Different goals.Same pressure.Different environment.Same nervous system.These days, whenever I feel overwhelmed, anxious or emotionally exhausted, I try asking myself:💭 Where am I abandoning myself?💭 What am I trying to earn right now?💭 What am I carrying that isn’t mine?Those questions usually tell me a lot more than another productivity hack ever could.So if burnout keeps finding you, maybe the question isn’t:“What should I do to recover?”Maybe it’s:“What is this trying to show me?”💬 Comment “RESET” if you’re tired of confusing burnout with discipline and I’ll send you the free training that helped me break that cycle 💖 by @compassionwithriki

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