Yekaterina Benson is a life and health coach helping women in leadership and high-pressure jobs reclaim their energy and feel great despite stress, overwhelm, and high demands at work.

RADICAL REDIRECTION: A journal

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A mental reset & mindful pause for women who are doing it all: long hours at work, high mental load, personal goals, self-growth.

Let’s talk about increasing your capacity, becoming unfazed by stress, steadying your moods, and increasing your energy. Raising your self-love, self-worth, and self-confidence.

Plus, I know you’ve got big dreams. Let’s discuss those, too!

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Why Your Brain Won't Let You Rest (And What to Do About It)

You want to rest, but your mind just can’t turn off.

Even if you relax with a show or a night out, as soon as it’s time to sleep, your mind keeps you up.

Or worse: maybe your mind keeps coming up with things you need to do before you rest. Like Cinderella: get through ALL the chores, the whole to-do list, and then MAYBE you can relax…

Either way, let’s talk about what to do when your mind won’t let you rest!

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Supporting Energy in Summertime

For some of us, summer is a time to relax, enjoy the outdoors, slow down a bit, take vacations, hang out with friends and family. For others, it’s a really busy season, with tight deadlines, lots of extra work, personal projects, and social obligations. Whichever way your summer goes, it’s important to prioritize our energy. Find out how best to do that for all 4 energy types.

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4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (II)

How to start recovering from the four types of burnout: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Why we should maintain healthy energy levels of all four types. How to learn to feel your different energies, when they’re low, and when you’re approaching burnout.

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4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (I)

It’s all energy. But thinking of it as an all-encompassing, generic term is not helpful when we’re trying to troubleshoot our energy: make it more stable, figure out why it’s low, or make it stop crashing every so often. In order to properly diagnose and heal burnout, it’s important to be able to distinguish between the 4 types - and know what to do for each.

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Career Longevity: What it’s About

To quit or not to quit? What is career longevity, and how to achieve it? What four aspects are important to career longevity, avoiding burnout, and living in alignment with your life’s mission.

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