Burnout Solutions

Mona Tippets, RN, Certified Life Coach
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This podcast is all about understanding why your brain and nervous system get stressed and how to rewire to recover from feeling burned out and overwhelmed. I help healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, veterinarians with burnout. I am a Certified Life Coach and help clinics and hospitals with staff workshops to teach emotional resiliency skills and how to resolve stress and burnout. I also work with clients one on one.

  1. 3D AGO

    E57: Work and Play, Episode 1: Why Rest Feels So Hard for High Achievers

    Work and Play, Episode 1: Why Rest Feels So Hard for High Achievers Mona kicks off the summer Work and Play series by exploring why rest can feel uncomfortable—or even impossible—for high achievers, especially in healthcare. She invites listeners to examine the stories they were handed about work, productivity, and worth, sharing how nonstop work was modeled in her own farm upbringing and later reinforced in medical culture. Mona explains how chronic overworking affects the nervous system, keeping people stuck in fight-or-flight or shutdown instead of returning to a calm, connected ventral vagal state where true rest happens. She also reviews the Maslach Burnout Inventory’s three markers—emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced accomplishment—and offers three categories of genuine recovery: physical, psychological, and social, emphasizing that relief isn’t the same as recovery and that small intentional moments matter. 00:00 Summer Series Kickoff 02:02 Why Rest Feels Hard 05:20 Work Ethic Origins 10:04 Healthcare Hustle Culture 12:49 Nervous System and Rest 15:55 Burnout Warning Signs 18:17 Guilt and Caring Roles 19:44 Three Types of Recovery 23:18 Micro Moments of Rest 24:06 Reflect and Wrap Up To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    28 min

  2. APR 27

    E 56: How to Give an Intentional Yes

    Episode 56: How to Say an Intentional Yes Mona shares takeaways from attending the Idaho PTA convention as a middle school PTA President, including the growing need for volunteers and how easy it is for high achievers to say yes too fast and then feel overwhelmed or resentful. She explains that the issue is deeper than “just say no,” often rooted in patterns like people pleasing, avoiding conflict, chasing praise, or identity tied to performance, and how those fear-based yeses can lead to burnout. Mona offers a simple framework of five questions to help make a strategic yes: what you’re saying no to, whether it aligns with your real values, if it helps you grow, whether it benefits the people you love and your community, and if your future self will thank you. She also encourages pausing before answering and reviewing commitments weekly. 00:00 PTA Convention Story 02:03 Why We Overcommit 04:42 Patterns Behind Yes 08:19 High Achiever Identity Trap 12:05 Five Questions Framework 13:16 Question One Tradeoffs 15:14 Question Two Values Check 17:03 Question Three Growth Test 19:06 Question Four Who Benefits 21:14 Question Five Future Self 22:44 Courageous Yes Mindset 25:21 How To Implement Daily 28:28 Final Recap And Goodbye To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    31 min

  3. APR 20

    E55: What I do as a Nervous System Resilience Life Coach and Free Regulation Tools

    What I do as a Nervous System Resilience Life Coach and Free Regulation Tools Mona answers a listener question: what a life coach specializing in nervous system resilience actually does. She explains that she helps busy high achievers notice their stress-response patterns, build regulation, and gently rewire those patterns so they can change behaviors and feel more fulfilled—without needing a perfect, calm life. Mona shares that she works both with groups (staff trainings, lunch-and-learns, retreats) and one-on-one deep dives, using training and certification in a modality developed for caregiving professions and mentored by Dr. Eric Gentry. Using a personal trainer analogy, she frames regulation as something built gradually through consistent practice, then breaks it into proactive (building baseline capacity) and reactive (in-the-moment tools), offering practical micro-moment strategies to complete the stress cycle throughout the day. 00:00 What I Do 00:58 Busy High Achievers 03:12 Groups vs One on One 05:16 Workplace Stress Spread 07:25 Trainer Analogy 10:23 Regulation Takes Time 12:26 Proactive vs Reactive 15:02 Stress Bucket Ladder 18:47 Micro Tools List 24:57 Wrap Up and Next Steps To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    28 min

  4. APR 13

    E54: Habits Help if They are Anchored in Regulation

    Habits Help if They are Anchored in Regulation Mona speaks to caregivers and high achievers—healthcare workers, teachers, and parents—who are great at showing up for others but often struggle to care for themselves because their systems are overloaded. She explains how constant decision-making drains the prefrontal cortex, adds stress to the nervous system, and can lead to procrastination, avoidance, and a freeze response that feels like lack of motivation. Instead of more willpower or control, Mona introduces cognitive scaffolding: external structures and predictive patterns that reduce decisions, create predictability, and help the nervous system feel safe and regulated. She shares examples like church routines, nightly family prayers, morning workouts, evening walks, menu planning, and finishing charting at work, highlighting how habits can lower mental load, reduce internal negotiation, and support consistency without perfectionism. 00:00 Caregivers Neglect Themselves 01:08 Identity of the High Achiever 02:24 Messy Closet Wake Up Call 04:09 Fewer Decisions Not Discipline 05:41 Decision Fatigue and Stress 07:36 Cognitive Scaffolding Explained 10:27 Predictive Patterns in Real Life 13:28 Dinner Planning and Work Boundaries 17:14 Freeze Response and Indecision Loop 20:16 Why Habits Calm the Nervous System 23:00 Wrap Up and Next Steps To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    26 min

  5. APR 6

    E53: The Sneaky Habits that Sabotage Your Goals

    The Sneaky Habits that Sabotage Your Goals This episode explores why high achievers struggle to change long-standing behaviors and argues that inconsistency isn’t a discipline or motivation problem, but begins “seconds earlier” in subtle, believable thoughts and nervous system states that predecide actions. Using examples like hitting snooze, skipping workouts, and overeating, it explains how neuroplasticity reinforces familiar mental “roads” and how the brain’s motivational triad (seek pleasure, avoid pain, conserve energy) prioritizes short-term relief over long-term goals. It connects hyperarousal fight-or-flight in healthcare shifts to exaggerated thinking, lost perspective, reactivity, and contagious stress that drives a full-day cascade of poor choices. Common predictive patterns include perfectionism and procrastination/delay. Tools offered include noticing nervous system state, interrupting belief in thoughts earlier, zooming out to the known outcome of the pattern, and working with a coach for incremental, personalized change. 00:00 Stuck In The Cycle 01:15 Consistency Beyond Control 03:05 Moment Before The Moment 06:53 Predictive Patterns Explained 07:53 Motivational Triad Trap 11:39 Nervous System In Charge 13:03 Healthcare Shift Spiral 17:33 Perfectionism Procrastination Delay 22:41 Tools To Interrupt Patterns 25:36 Coaching And Closing Takeaways To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    29 min

  6. APR 4

    Easter- The Message of Hope for Our Humaness

    Easter- The Message of Hope for Our Humaness This is a special episode where Mona explains her beliefs and what she has learned about the nervous system and the human brain and how it has brought her more compassion for her mistakes and helps her forgive other people. She explains a great metaphor on why to rely on Jesus by "yoking yourself" with him to help create an intentional, joyful life. The Easter celebration is not only a historic event that actually took place but a way to celebrate how we each are saved from physical and spiritual death. You may or may not agree with these views, either way, thanks for listening with a curious perspective. To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    13 min

  7. MAR 30

    E52: Consistency or Control? A Message for High Achievers

    Consistency or Control? A Message for High Achievers The episode explores how high achievers often mistake consistency for tighter control, rigid rules, and perfect execution, which can create fear-driven pressure, black-and-white thinking, and hyperarousal that eventually leads to burnout and collapse into hypoarousal (“what’s the point?”). It contrasts compliance/control (following external rules) with true consistency as reliable, sustainable action rooted in identity and internal motivation, and argues that resilience depends on nervous system regulation and flexibility. The host shares a NICU story where a planned feeding schedule was disrupted, illustrating that flexibility is a skill, not weakness, and that consistency means responding wisely when reality doesn’t match the plan. Key ideas include planning for setbacks, distinguishing flexibility from “giving yourself a pass” by still moving toward the goal, and viewing consistency as a dial—returning and adjusting intensity rather than all-or-nothing perfection. 00:00 Why Control Fails 03:23 Control vs Consistency 04:41 Hyperarousal Consistency 07:34 NICU Flexibility Lesson 12:25 When Control Collapses 13:38 Resilience Zone Habits 15:55 Flexibility vs A Pass 17:15 Consistency Is a Dial 19:45 Where You Tighten Up 22:21 Parenting and Adaptability 24:19 Resilient Consistency Wrap To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    26 min

  8. MAR 23

    E51: Loving Yourself to Health- A Webinar Replay with April Diaz

    Loving Yourself to Health: Nervous System, Emotional Eating, and Sustainable Habits If you want to learn more about breaking emotional eating habits, get this course! For only $37 Mona shares the audio from a February community webinar with life coach April Diaz on “loving yourself to health,” focusing on emotional eating and how sustainable habits come from nervous system safety rather than self-criticism or pushing harder. She explains how habits are automatic, why food can become a learned signal of comfort and safety, and how stress states (hyperarousal, freeze, shutdown) shape thoughts, motivation, and follow-through. Using Yerkes-Dodson and polyvagal theory, Mona contrasts fear-driven control with the “zone of resilience,” where trust, connection, and gentle motivation support long-term change. She offers practical ideas like building a regulation menu, increasing awareness of cues, and making small nutrition shifts, then coaches a participant through late-night eating by exploring daytime nourishment, planning, and alternative calming routines. 00:00 Webinar and Course Intro 01:24 Meet April and Mona 03:32 Why Habits Feel Hard 08:14 Food as Safety and Connection 12:10 Hunger and Learned Patterns 14:05 Why Emotional Eating Happens 16:47 Stress Curve and Polyvagal Map 21:07 Hyper vs Hypo Arousal Thoughts 24:26 Emotional Eating as a Signal 26:04 Inner Critic and Self Judgment 29:08 Awareness Tools and New Habits 31:24 What Safety Really Means 31:55 Zone of Resilience 32:53 Food Trust Mindset 33:56 Toddler Brain Cravings 35:52 Reparenting With Needs 38:38 Regulation Menu Ideas 40:59 Gut Brain Nutrition Tweaks 43:09 Night Eating Q and A 52:15 Closing Reflections Need some help with emotional eating? Here is the full course. Only $37 To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here.

    54 min
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This podcast is all about understanding why your brain and nervous system get stressed and how to rewire to recover from feeling burned out and overwhelmed. I help healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, veterinarians with burnout. I am a Certified Life Coach and help clinics and hospitals with staff workshops to teach emotional resiliency skills and how to resolve stress and burnout. I also work with clients one on one.

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  • Creator
    Mona Tippets, RN, Certified Life Coach
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    58
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Mona Tippets Coaching All Rights Reserved.
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    Burnout Solutions