For high-achieving adults still carrying childhood survival strategies
You were the gifted child. The one who learned early that love came with conditions. Praise when you achieved. Affection when you pleased. Safety when you disappeared.
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Now you're burnt out. Exhausted by perfectionism. Paralyzed by procrastination. Drained by people-pleasing. Doubting what you know.
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These aren't personality flaws. They're nervous system patterns — survival strategies you developed when your real self wasn't safe.
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What saved you then is costing you now.
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This guide uses somatic coaching techniques — breathwork, nervous system regulation, and body-based practices — to help you recognize these patterns and begin the work of letting them go.
I'm Yuliya — a breathwork facilitator, nervous system witch, and guide for people breaking free from the patterns that keep them small.
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I was born in Ukraine, escaped a volatile upbringing through a scholarship to NYU Abu Dhabi, and spent years moving through countries without a home base, achieving my way through burnout, living for a decade in a functional freeze state until my body refused to cooperate anymore.
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I learned somatic work the hard way — by needing it. I'm certified in Conscious Connected Breathwork, nervous system work, stress resilience and burnout coaching, and meditation.
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This guide was born from my own breaking point — from the practices that taught my body it was safe to stop performing. Safe to be myself. Safe to trust.
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You found this because your body remembers. The return to wholeness begins here.
Inside this guide: Somatic tools for gifted adult burnout
Gifted adults develop specific survival strategies to cope with conditional love in childhood.
This guide maps six patterns common in former gifted children:
✓ Perfectionism - I can't start until I know exactly how to do it right
✓ Procrastination - I avoid the things that matter most
✓ People-pleasing - Saying no feels like cruelty
✓ Fixing/Savior patterns - I'm responsible for everyone's problems
✓ Overachievement - I can't rest without guilt
✓ Self-doubt - I've learned not to trust what I know
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You'll discover:
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The narcissistic wound: how conditional love creates these patterns
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The nervous system response: why burnout is your body's final refusal to keep performing
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The political dimension: how systems weaponize your survival strategies
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Somatic breathwork practice (Journey 1): A 15-minute guided somatic meditation to begin nervous system regulation
