If the thought of saying "no" to someone seems impossible, this track will help you understand why that is so difficult and give you strategies to get more comfortable. As a recovering people pleaser, I can show you how to make boundaries work for you. In the end, we'll go through some exercises to get you started on your boundary journey.

This track helps people pleasers say "no" by providing understanding, strategies, and exercises for setting boundaries.

Boundaries For People Pleasers- Yes, You

Some strangers walk among us that never get stressed out. (I know... I'm jealous, too.) What are the secrets that keep them resilient to stress and the chaos around them? What do they have that you and I don't? Listen to find out the secret to their stress-free bliss.

Discover the secrets of stress-free strangers and how they stay resilient in chaos in this informative audio clip.

Secrets Of The Never Stressed

For the ambitious and high-achieving it can be tough to want to do all of the things while keeping your stress levels in check. Stress, frustration, and overwhelm can take over when "go-getters" go after too much. Here are three strategies to keep you reaching for the stars while keeping an eye on your mental health.

"High achievers can manage stress with 3 strategies to reach their goals while keeping an eye on their mental health."

Ambition Without Stress And Overwhelm?

You could stress about how stressed out you are. Or, you could pretend your stress is non-existent. Learn how to become a carefree person and live more in the moment. Honestly, most people already fake it till they make it. Why not do that with your stress?

Learn to become carefree and fake it till you make it with stress to live in the moment.

How To Pretend Your Stress Doesn't Exist

Your boundaries - or even no boundaries - teach people how you expect to be treated. Learn to create boundaries that will teach people to treat you with respect, kindness, and attentiveness. Boundaries shouldn't be confrontational, rather they should be communicated clearly. In this track, you will learn the difference between a boundary and a rule, have a better understanding of what makes a boundary successful, and what they need to be connected to help you enforce them meaningfully. In the end, I will help you get started on your boundary creation journey with an exercise.

Learn to set boundaries that teach people how to treat you with respect, kindness, and attentiveness. This track explains the difference between a boundary and a rule and how to enforce them meaningfully.

Empower Yourself To Create Boundaries

Does complaining reflect a deeper unhappiness with yourself? Complaining can serve a useful purpose, but when you chronically complain you are likely not taking responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. You also become the creator of high stress and feelings of overwhelm. Find out what your complaining actually means and what you should do instead.

Chronic complaining reflects an unhappiness with oneself, leading to stress and overwhelm, and suggests a need to take responsibility for thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Complaining: Sign Of Deeper Unhappiness?

Without boundaries, you miss out on better opportunities, more meaningful relationships, and confidence. Are you experiencing any of these 5 situations? Of course, I won't leave you hanging. I'll get you started on solving your lack of boundaries with a quick exercise at the end.

Setting boundaries is crucial for better opportunities, relationships, and confidence. Learn to set boundaries with a quick exercise provided in this article.

5 Mistakes You Make Without Boundaries

You are probably familiar with the saying, "Under promise and overdeliver." Overdelivering has a darker, overwhelming side that many of us think is perfectly normal. Is overdelivering what's killing your performance and keeping you from the success you want?

Overdelivering may be hindering success and performance, despite being considered normal, according to the concept of "Under promise and overdeliver."

What Overdelivering Really Costs You

As we go through life we accumulate people/things/obligations that no longer fit or resonate with our life as time goes on. You change. Other people change. Hanging on to these people/things/obligations may cause a lot of stress that you may not be fully aware of. So, how do you know what and when to let go?

Learn to let go of people, things, and obligations that no longer align with your life, as clinging onto them can cause unnoticed stress and hinder personal growth.

Recognize What No Longer Serves You

Most people operate with the wrong definition of perfectionism, so they miss the signs and symptoms. Also, many confuse the traits of being a perfectionist and think of themselves as high achievers. I am sharing 10 traits of a perfectionist and how they differ from a high achiever.

Learn the difference between perfectionism and high achievers through 10 traits outlined in this article.

What Is Perfectionism?

Building mental strength and resilience isn't always included in the burnout recovery process - but it is critical. Its' benefits are numerous, but the most important is how it can stop anxiety and stress before it even starts. Learn how to build your mental strength and resilience muscle with five quick daily exercises.

Building mental strength and resilience is critical in burnout recovery, as it can prevent anxiety and stress; learn how with five daily exercises.

An Antidote To Anxiety & Stress

Emotional exhaustion is easily dismissed because it doesn’t seem like anything more than a string of bad days, bad moods, and annoying people. But this string of stressors and stressful events has led you to be chronically stressed. Burnout is just around the corner - but it doesn't have to be! Learn four ways to subdue your emotional distress and lower your stress levels.

Learn 4 ways to subdue emotional distress and lower stress levels to avoid burnout, which is caused by a string of stressful events.

What To Do When Emotionally Exhausted

These five stress relief techniques are proven to work - no matter what life throws your way. If you are burned out, stressed out, anxious, or overwhelmed, keep these in your back pocket to help you in a pinch.

5 proven stress relief techniques to keep in your back pocket for times of burnout, anxiety, stress, or overwhelm.

5 Tips For Stress Relief In A Pinch

Are you creating a boundary or a rule? The two are often confused with each other. Learn the difference between the two, as well as, the one truth about boundaries that you need to get on board with in order to create and enforce effective boundaries.

Learn the difference between creating a boundary and a rule and the one truth about boundaries to effectively enforce them.

Defining Your Boundaries

Did you know that achieving your goals can make other people happier, too? When you focus on your own happiness first, you have a better chance of making others happy. In this track, we'll talk about how to get over the temporary discomfort you feel when enforcing your boundaries so you can focus on your goals. In the end, I'll give you the steps that will lead you to successfully creating boundaries that will help you achieve your goals.

Achieve your goals and make others happy too by enforcing boundaries; this track will guide you through temporary discomfort towards success.

Using Boundaries To Achieve Your Goals

Some days it seems like your life is so hard, while others' lives seem easy or effortless. How did you manage to board the struggle bus, while they zip by on the bullet train? Find out if you have one (or more) of these five habits that could be making your life a daily uphill climb.

Identify 5 habits that make life harder than it needs to be, and learn how to avoid them in order to stop struggling.

Why Is Your Life So Hard?

In the real world, people would treat us with respect and honor our boundaries. Learn how to enforce your boundaries with confidence and handle those who disrespect and/or ignore your needs. Quick hint: The people who are most troubled by your boundaries are the people who benefitted the most from you not having any.

Learn to enforce your boundaries with confidence and handle those who disrespect them, as those who benefit from your lack of boundaries will be the most troubled.

Enforcing Boundaries & Consequences

You may think having strong boundaries isn't any big deal, but what your unhealthy and/or lack of boundaries tell others is a story you may not like. Find out the message your unhealthy boundaries are sending because it might help you discover what has kept life exhausting and frustrating.

Unhealthy or nonexistent boundaries can send a negative message, leading to an exhausting and frustrating life; understand their impact.

What Your Unhealthy Boundaries Confess

There is a cognitive array of processes that aren't talked about much that make up your psychological immune system. This system occurs when it senses you need to be protected from something bad. Learn how you can wield yourself to protect yourself from stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

Discover how to tap into your psychological immune system, a set of unexplored cognitive processes, to shield yourself from stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

Do You This Natural Buffer To Negativity

Do you constantly have to be a busy bee? Check out these six signs that you may be obsessed with being productive and it is contributing to your stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

Constantly being productive may cause stress, overwhelm, and burnout - check out these 6 signs to see if you're obsessed with productivity.

Obsessed With Being Productive?

There are stories you tell yourself that lead you to or keep you burned out. They become part of your belief system, which directs your decision-making, your actions, and your thinking. These stories keep you from getting what you really want, help maintain your high-stress levels, and cause you more problems. So, why do you keep telling them to yourself and others? What about them keeps you stuck with these tall tales on repeat?

Self-limiting stories lead to burnout and hinder success by directing decision-making, actions, and thinking, causing stress and problems.

Stories That Keep You Burned Out, Stuck

If you are stressed out, and working through burnout recovery, it can be tough to identify what is keeping your stress levels high at work. Here are three sneaky ways that raise your stress levels that you may not be aware of.

Stressed and recovering from burnout? Learn three sneaky ways that may be raising your stress levels at work in this concise guide.

3 Sneaky Ways Your Stress Levels Rise

Happy people have different habits, behaviors, and mindsets that allow them to be more productive. While you know happiness is contagious, what about their higher levels of productivity? If you are burned out, can you just hang around a happy person and absorb their superpowers? In this track, I'll share the five "secret" habits of happy people that support their productivity.

Happy people have different habits, behaviors, and mindsets that allow them to be more productive, and this article shares the five "secret" habits that support their productivity.

Why Are Happy People More Productive?

Handling emotionally charged situations when you are burned out is hard. Here are five strategies that help you defuse a stressful situation while maintaining your sanity.

The text suggests five strategies to handle emotionally charged situations and defuse stress when feeling burned out, preserving one's sanity.

Navigating Emotional Minefields

When you are burned out, dealing with difficult people is... excruciating. You are already short on patience, not wanting to deal with much, or are in the mood to negotiate. However, if you can cut off the stress response that automatically kicks in, you can use one of my 11 strategies to deal with difficult people when you are burned out.

When burned out, dealing with difficult people is excruciating, but using one of 11 strategies can help cut off stress responses.

Dealing With Difficult People

Jennifer Bassman

Burnout & Boundaries Strategist, Author

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Most of us end up in "Survival Mode" to get through the motions of life and do what we need to do when our life gets hectic. Then, we get stuck. Let's talk about how to get out and lower your stress and overwhelm.

Escape "Survival Mode" by addressing stress and overwhelm in order to move forward and thrive in life.

Are You Stuck In Survival Mode?

It’s exhausting and disappointing to base one’s identity on their accomplishments. And, it’s devastating to think you’re only as good as your last achievement. Yet, we keep moving the goalposts to what would make us feel successful or like we're "enough." It's time to set those goalposts in cement and I'll show you how.

Stop defining yourself by accomplishments and chasing success - set concrete goals for fulfillment and self-worth.

Keep Moving Goalposts To Success?

For most of us, there is fear underneath that flood of stress and guilt when we know it’s time to take a break. These feelings can be crippling. Often, the day(s) off get tainted by the stress and guilt you feel about not being at work or where you’re “supposed to be.” So, the day(s) are anything but relaxing. Here's how to retrain your brain to destress and relax.

Learn how to overcome fear and guilt to take a truly relaxing break by retraining your brain to destress and relax effectively.

Feel Guilty for Relaxing?

You are stressed out, exhausted, and at the end of your rope. Is it possible that you are putting too much pressure on yourself? See if these five tell-tale signs are fit and what to do next.

Identify five signs of self-imposed pressure causing stress and exhaustion, and learn how to address them.

Are You About To Blow?

Is it possible that the stress in your life comes from a lack of boundaries? Boundaries aren’t just about learning to say no. Find out how boundaries can clear the obstacles that are getting in your way personally and professionally.

Setting boundaries can alleviate stress and remove obstacles in personal and professional life beyond just saying "no."

Acknowledge You Need Boundaries

Before you burn it all to the ground, consider if it's time for a life reset instead. (Although, I totally get why you'd rather burn it all down.) I see you! You used to be the ambitious, motivated person who would try anything once. Now, everything just seems overwhelming. Try these five ideas to reset your life without the hassle of clean-up.

Consider a life reset instead of burning everything down; here are five ideas to help you reset without the hassle of clean-up.