High achievement is often worn like a badge of honor, but there is a dark side. Joining us today on the podcast is TEDx speaker and Trauma-Informed Transformative Coach helping High-Achieving and High-Functioning women, Sunitha Sandeep. Today, we dive deeper into the dark side of high achievement, the 5-P Pentagon that women must navigate, and mindset changes to feel less burnout and more peace.
Today we discuss…
- The dark side of high achievement
- Can modern women actually have it all?
- How can you know what “all” means to you
- Shame, guilt, and comparison with others
- Shifting from outside focus to internal focus of what you really want
- The “5-P Pentagon”: Profession, Partner, Parent, Passion, and Purpose
- Mindset changes that must happen in order to find peace when being pulled in all directions
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Show Notes: The Dark Side of High Achievement
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Joining us today on the podcast is TEDx speaker and Trauma-Informed Transformative Coach helping High-Achieving and High-Functioning women, Sunitha Sandeep. If you joined us at The Supermom Summit this year, you might have caught Sunitha speak to us about having it all. Today, we dive deeper into the dark side of high achievement, the 5-P Pentagon that women must navigate, and mindset changes to feel less burnout and more peace.
I am excited to introduce you to Sunitha!
Today we discuss…
- The dark side of high achievement
- Can modern women actually have it all?
- How can you know what “all” means to you
- Shame, guilt, and comparison with others
- Shifting from outside focus to internal focus of what you really want
- The “5-P Pentagon”: Profession, Partner, Parent, Passion, and Purpose
- Mindset changes that must happen in order to find peace when being pulled in all directions
- Tapping into your core emotions
- Not feeling grateful and then feeling guilt and shame about it
- Giving yourself compassion above all else and getting curious about emotions instead of trying to escape them
- The pressure to “do” even when trying to cope with burnout, stress, and overwhelm
- Stuck energy within your body and learning to release it
- How to use boundaries and practices to develop trust within yourself
Are you interested in finding out more about Sunitha Sandeep?
Watch Sunitha Sandeep’s TEDx Talk
About Our Guest: Sunitha Sandeep
Sunitha is a TEDx Speaker and Trauma-Informed Transformative Coach helping High-Achieving and High-Functioning women break-free from their inner struggles of anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, fear to reach higher professional success with deep personal fulfillment.
She is a certified Meditation/Mindfulness Teacher, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Trauma Support Specialist, Spiritual Coach & an Integrative Wellness Inner-Transformation Coach.
She is also Technical corporate leader, multi-pageant winner (Mrs India DC, Maryland Virginia 2021 and Mrs India USA Runner Up 2022), a singer, wife & a mom
She is a thought leader who has been actively challenging the cultural fallacy that stress, struggle and burnout are a prerequisite for creativity, happiness and success.
Her work is on awakening modern-day women who juggle between the 5Ps of Profession, Parenting, Passion & Purpose and help them to find peace and fulfillment, yet thrive in an increasingly chaotic world.
Her mission is in exploring and unleashing human potential using Ancient Wisdom, Scientific Healing and Conscious Living.
Coming from a high-performing corporate leadership background, being a trauma survivor herself and having recovered from severe anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, insomnia, tension myoneural syndrome, chronic pain & chronic fatigue syndrome, she has had the first-hand experience of a radical inner-transformational journey.
She teaches life-transforming methodologies intricately weaving eastern practices of contemplative awareness inquiries & mind-body-heart-energy connection with western practices of somatic trauma healing, positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy & emotional intelligence.
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About the Host: Lori Oberbroeckling
Lori Whitney Oberbroeckling is a mom of four, corporate leader, podcaster, productivity expert, and author of the book Secrets of Supermom: How Extraordinary Moms Succeed at Work and Home & How You Can Too!
She is passionate about helping parents who want fulfilling careers–or side hustles or passion projects–while also wanting to feel present and connected to their families.
