#108 – Doing Too Much, Feeling Everything: Dr. Danielle Griffin on Breaking the Overachiever Burnout Cycle
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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Danielle Griffin — somatic exercise therapist, certified hypnotherapist, and former higher education researcher — to talk about something most high achievers never want to admit: the body keeps score, and burnout doesn’t just live in your mind.
Danielle walks me through how years of unprocessed workplace stress, grief, and pressure physically manifested in her own life — and how she discovered somatic healing and hypnotherapy as the entry points that finally allowed her to change. What I love about her approach is how accessible it is. We’re not talking about hour-long meditation sessions or clearing your schedule. We’re talking about 90-second pauses between Zoom calls that actually shift your nervous system.
We also get into the workplace mental health conversation — why giving employees a meditation app isn’t enough, what organizations are getting wrong about burnout, and why most people don’t unwind until day three of a five-day vacation (and then immediately crash back into stress the moment they return).
Danielle also shares how her Rise and Renew retreat came out of watching people try to rest without the tools to actually do it — and why having guidance matters more than having willpower.
And yes — we do a live 90-second somatic practice in the episode. You’ll feel it.
If you’re a high achiever who’s been pushing through, telling yourself you don’t have time to pause, or wondering why vacations aren’t fixing things — this one’s for you.
Learn more about Danielle here: https://www.drdaniellegriff.com/
Chapters:
[00:00] Why vacations don’t actually reset you
[04:00] Danielle’s story: workplace trauma, grief, and hitting the wall
[09:30] What somatic healing and hypnotherapy actually are
[14:00] How chronic stress becomes chronic pain
[22:30] Why workplaces keep getting burnout wrong
[26:00] Live 90-second somatic reset practice
[30:30] The mind-body connection and how to use it
[37:00] Working with pushback and resistance
[41:30] Practice in everyday life
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