{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Katie Boyer in the hot seat ","description":"In this emotional and deeply relatable episode of Listen Bitch Presents: Tell Me Why You’re Special, I sit down with Katie Boyer to talk about burnout, mental health, chronic stress, people-pleasing, healing, and rebuilding your life after emotional exhaustion.\n\nKatie shares her experience working in an extremely high-stress library environment that slowly destroyed her physical and mental well-being. She opens up about reaching a breaking point, experiencing suicidal thoughts, and realizing she could no longer sacrifice herself trying to meet impossible expectations.\n\nWe discuss boundaries, work-life balance, emotional burnout, stress-related health issues, authentic living, self-care, mental health recovery, people-pleasing, toxic productivity culture, healing from overwhelm, and learning to prioritize yourself without guilt.\n\nKatie also shares the incredible physical and emotional changes that happened after reducing stress — including improved sleep, hormone regulation, weight loss, reduced anxiety, enjoying the outdoors again, and reconnecting with peace and joy.\n\nThis episode dives into mental health awareness, emotional healing, stress management, authentic relationships, self-worth, recovery from burnout, and the courage it takes to walk away from environments that are slowly destroying you.\n\nIf you’ve ever felt trapped in stress, overwhelmed by expectations, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from yourself… this conversation will probably hit you straight in the chest.\n\nThis is a powerful episode about healing, boundaries, reclaiming yourself, and remembering that your life matters too.","author_name":"Listen Bitch Presents TELL ME WHY YOU'RE SPECIAL","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166895-listen-bitch-presents-tell-me-why-you-re-special","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43445070/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}