The Life I’m Keeping

Somewhere along the way, self-care got hijacked. It became a 27-step skincare routine, a $90 sound bath, and a sourdough starter you never finished. But real self-care, the kind that actually keeps you functioning, leading, loving, and showing up, is far less glamorous and far more important. In this final episode of the resilience mini-series, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin gets honest abo...

Your relationships, at work, at home, with friends, are either fueling you or draining you. And most of the time, the biggest obstacle isn't the other person. It's not knowing what you actually want, or not having the tools to ask for it clearly. In this episode, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin gets specific about the interpersonal effectiveness skills that help professional women build heal...

You're not too emotional. You're under-resourced, and nobody taught you how to name what you're feeling, let alone regulate it. In this episode, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin tackles emotional regulation head-on: what emotions actually do for us, why some women feel things more intensely than others (hint: it's often biology, not weakness), and how to build a practical skill set for managi...

The project is on fire. Your coworker just dropped the ball. Everything is changing at once and your nervous system is in full alarm mode, heart racing, thoughts spiraling, and every instinct telling you to either explode or disappear. Sound familiar? In this episode, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin walks you through exactly what to do when distress hits hard and your whole brain feels offli...

Mindfulness isn't about emptying your mind, sitting in silence, or buying a $400 meditation cushion. It's about building space, between the trigger and the reaction, and that space is where your power lives. In this episode, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin cuts through the noise around mindfulness and gives professional women a clear, practical, judgment-free framework for what it actually i...

You started the day fine. By 4pm you were snapping at people you love, checked out at dinner, or just completely done, and you don't know why. The answer isn't weakness, poor discipline, or not being cut out for the life you're building. It's your window of tolerance. And once you understand it, you'll never look at your stress response the same way again. In this opening episode of a brand new mi...

You already know how to solve a problem at work. You're good at it. But what happens when the problem doesn't have a clean solution when it's a relationship, a pattern, or a situation you can't just fix your way out of? In this episode, therapist and entrepreneur Liz Burgin breaks down the four choices you actually have when life presents a problem: solve it, feel better about it, tolerate it, or...