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She had the PhD, the healthcare leadership job, and the burnout badge of honor. Then COVID and E. coli said, “Sit down.” So she did – and stood up for her life.
Before she became a burnout coach and psychology-whisperer to high achievers, Jesseca Tighe was a therapist-turned-healthcare exec just trying to keep it all together. She had the title, the inbox, and the never-ending calls at all hours.
But the truth? She was one exhale away from collapse.
Then the curveballs came in fast – first COVID, then E. coli, then back-to-back losses that left her physically wrecked and emotionally cracked open. But it was in that wreckage – jobless, speechless, and horizontal on the couch – that Jesseca decided to finally listen to her body and rebuild from scratch.
Today, she helps other overworked, under-nurtured women trade burnout for boundaries, and reconnect with the lives they almost forgot they wanted.
Quote:
“Burnout doesn’t always blow up your life – it seeps in like water under a door.”
Links:
Website: soulutionsforhealth.com
Facebook: Jesseca Tighe
Instagram: @jessecatighe
LinkedIn: Jesseca Tighe, Ph.D. - Leadership Coach
Chapters
1. Climbing the ladder, burning out, and the HVAC guy epiphany (00:00:00)
2. Burnout in a blazer: pivoting, then crashing with COVID and E. coli (00:03:50)
3. Healing like it was her job (literally eight hours a day) (00:06:10)
4. Losing three colleagues and waking up to the real cost of burnout (00:07:30)
5. What burnout actually is (and the three medical types you’ve never heard of) (00:09:00)
6. Why smart, driven women miss the signs until it’s too late (00:12:45)
7. The asset that turns into a defect when we ignore the tripwire (00:14:20)
8. Burnout as a dog whistle: how to hear what your body’s saying (00:16:30)
9. Creating space in your nervous system before change can happen (00:18:00)
10. Rest, recovery, and the behavioral drift that drags us back (00:20:15)
11. Work addiction, loyalty guilt, and the jacket-on-chair contest (00:23:30)
12. When her narcissistic mom moved in (and the mama bear line got crossed) (00:25:40)
13. Trauma loops, tapping, and rewiring old emotional patterns (00:29:00)
14. Who she works with now (hint: people on the brink, ready to choose themselves) (00:35:00)
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