Reclaim Your Energy and Feel Vibrantly Alive Again
Imagine waking up each day feeling refreshed, with a clear mind and a heart full of compassion.
You've learned to channel your energy without depleting your own reserves, and now you have the juice to enjoy personal passions, connect with loved ones, and still feel vibrant at the end of the day.
You've embraced the art of giving without depleting yourself.
"I’m All Tapped Out – I’ve Got Nothing Left to Give. I Just Don’t Have the Energy to Care Anymore.”
When your literal job is to take care of other people, it’s easy to wake up one day and realize …it feels like that’s all you’re ever doing.
This seems like a standard part of life when you’re in one of the helping professions – whether you’re a nurse, physical therapist, bodyworker, therapist or counselor, in-home caregiver, coach, energy worker, or one of a thousand other careers that involve caring for other people’s health and well-being, supporting them through hard times, and the sacred act of service to another human being.
Any of these describe your current situation?
You’ve been working in one of the caring professions for a while now.
And it feels like you just give and you give and you give. You’re exhausted, drained, and totally worn out.
You have a sneaking suspicion that making a difference with people requires a little sacrifice…or a lot…but you don’t enjoy that part of the package.
It doesn’t seem like you ever get enough time or energy available for you. Why does working in your dream field feel like it’s killing you??
You’re a long-term caregiver for a family member or loved one… and you’re not even getting paid to do all of this.
Sure, you love this person so much it’s a no-brainer to take care of them. But… the day-in day-out reality of it is taking a toll on you that you didn’t expect.
It’s more work (and more paperwork) than you could have anticipated. You find you don’t have the bandwidth to take great care of both of you…so you prioritize them.
It leads to resentment of this person you love so much. And that sucks.
You’re starting out in your brand new career, hopeful and optimistic.
They told you in school to watch out for burnout, so you want to get ahead of the curve.
The idea of having to quit now when you’re just getting started, or ending up a cynical old salt, terrifies you and turns your stomach.
You love learning how to do your job well and want to avoid the pitfalls. But no one seems to be talking about the part of the job that sucks out your energy!
You long for a life where you get to do the work you love - and instead of draining you, it fuels you.
There’s one word that causes an immediate blood pressure spike in many people in the helping professions: “burnout.”
Burnout is terrifying, because we can see it as a real possibility (or, fuck, a current reality) in our lives. It looms large. It seems to have many unknown causes, and the solution is even more hazy and unclear.
What do you do when your job is the thing that feels like it’s taking the most from your life? When the vocation you loved has become a giant energy-sucking vampire that barely seems worth the life-force it drains from you? By the end of the day, you can’t even get up off the couch to take off your scrubs and do something fun – where did your energy go? It can start to feel like a bad marriage.
Does this sound dramatic? That’s because it feels dramatic. It feels catastrophic.
You started taking care of people professionally because you truly, authentically care. You want people to be healthy, to be happy, to be safe and cared for and fulfilled and thriving. It matters to you. You like helping people, goddammit! You don’t want to burn out and leave the work you love.
Waking up and dreading caring for others feels like wearing iron weights on your shoulders. The disappointment. The sheer resentment. The aching loss of what you used to love doing.
You think: “What happened? Where did all that clear, go-getter energy go? …Will I ever get it back again?”
You can have as much energy as you need, at your fingertips, at any moment. And you won’t even have to take a weekend seminar.
Mastering your energy is a lot more simple than it seems. You just have to learn how to do it and then apply that knowledge until it’s second nature. Bingo!
Applying your energy where you want it to go can be as basic as choosing where you put your attention throughout the day and cultivating the relationships that fuel you up. (In fact, we’ll talk about both of these strategies in the course.)
“Fueling up” isn’t a new concept – we all have a metaphorical fuel tank of energy and we use it to do everything in our lives. Every tank has limits, and so we have to fuel up constantly. We eat enough calories to keep our bodies happy, we seek joy and love to refill our tanks, and we sleep every night to top it up for the next day.
How we spend our energetic fuel is driven mostly by our habits.
Just like putting a little energy every day into flossing gives you better teeth and healthier gums, the ways you divide up your attention through the day give you the results that you have in your life.
The issue is that most of us habitually siphon off the gas tank little by little over the course of our day, through bad mental and emotional habits – without even realizing it.
Every day, these little moments, these tiny imperceptible habits, build a world in which you cannot help but find yourself with nothing left in the tank at the end of the day.
What you need isn’t a 26-hour day or a vacation on the beach (although both would be nice) — you need to master how you use your energy.
Bad energy habits include:
taking on others’ emotions and baggage
scattering your attention
ignoring your body’s messages & your intuition
prioritizing other people over yourself
It isn’t your fault if you’ve developed these unhelpful habits – most of us have been trained into them since childhood by caregivers and a culture that didn’t know better. We have so few examples of good habits that we can all be forgiven for our ignorance here.
But the good news is it actually doesn’t take very much change to start feeling really good! To find motivation and joy in your new habits, and to discover how huge your fuel tank really is. You are much more powerful than you think you are.
Your energy is the currency that runs your life. You get to spend it however you want it.
The secret is this: you can unlearn those bad habits, take back your energy, and live an awesome life with a great career doing the work you love – and your work actually refuels you.
Imagine waking up each day feeling refreshed, with a clear mind and a heart full of energy. You've learned to channel your care without depleting your own reserves, and now you have the juice to enjoy personal passions, connect with loved ones, and still feel vibrant at the end of the day.
Introducing…
Awakened Vitality: The 13-Week Recharge
Increase your vital energy, find peace of mind, and build boundaries that others want to honor.
Awakened Vitality has three goals:
Stop blowing your wad (energetically).
Recognize and plug the energy drains in your life. You will be shocked at how much of a difference it makes!
Direct that energy into what matters.
Focus your renewed energy on what truly enriches your life. Embed your new energy habits into your daily routine.
Make your new paradigm the new normal.
Reinforce your habits, creating systems for your life that support you. No matter what comes up (or who comes around), you’ll be able to maintain your energy boundaries with grace.
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This is the missing piece of your education: how to maintain a long, vibrant career doing work you love, while feeling filled-up and passionate throughout your life.
When I went to massage school over a decade ago (wow, I feel old), some of my teachers mentioned in passing (1) the high burnout rates among massage therapists, (2) that we had to protect our joints at all costs so they wouldn’t break, and (3) that sometimes people just burned out anyway, even if their joints were fine.
The average massage career at that time was only 5 years long, and most of the massage therapists leaving the profession left in their first year, citing the high emotional drain as one of their reasons.
YIKES.
So did they teach us how to prevent all that burnout that had nothing to do with the joints, and everything to do with the emotional and energetic components of the job?! Nope. Not at all. We each had to figure that one out on our own.
Or just…not.
Maybe your education was similar to this. There is a world of knowledge that we require in order to do our jobs well, to do them safely, and to treat our clients and patients with the respect they deserve.
You have a set of specialized skills that you hone each day, such as demonstrating how to use a foam roller without wanting to die, moving an entire human being larger than you who really doesn’t want to go anywhere today, mobilizing a person’s frozen shoulder and melting fascial adhesions, and writing more patient chart notes than anyone should ever have to. This is the knowledge you know so well you barely have to think about it – you just do it.
But there is another realm of knowledge that we need in order to treat ourselves with the respect that we deserve.
This is the knowledge of how the emotional and energetic side of our work actually works, the knowledge of why we feel drained and depleted and can take on other people’s energy, so that we can change our old habits and let our work fuel and fulfill us instead of exhaust us. It isn’t any harder than the more technical parts of the job.
Instead of only mastering how to care for others, you must learn to care for yourself at the same time.
And then one day soon you realize you don’t even have to think about how you’re managing your energy – you’re just doing it.
Awakened Vitality is the classwork we all need to fully round out our professional lives. It wasn’t given to us as a basic part of our education, and that’s the mistake I’m here to correct.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transform your daily grind into a wellspring of energy, creating a sustainable balance that leaves you rejuvenated and empowered, in just 9 weeks.
Let’s talk about how that’s possible…
What’s Inside
Awakened Vitality is designed with 3 sequential modules that will lead you, step by step, to build on each new skill and exercise as we go. Each module represents an important, integral step on the path to reclaiming your potential, full energy as a human being and not taking on other people’s stuff.
The three modules consist of…
MODULE 1: RECLAIM YOUR ENERGY
Identify the drains on your energy that leave you stagnant, stuck, tired, and burned out, and plug the hole.
Learn to let go of other people’s emotions or energetic bullshit, to shield yourself from it, and how this all works in the first place
Discover the hidden energy patterns that have been holding you back and keeping you stuck for years…or maybe even your whole life.
Set boundaries that make other people happy to say yes to you.
Reclaim the full vitality you haven’t felt in YEARS by clearing out old emotions.
Learn the missing piece to turn your “self care routine” from just another thing to do…into the rituals that energize you.
MODULE 2: YOUR ENERGY SET POINT
Discover your natural “energy set point”: the familiar state that your nervous system unconsciously resets to – and how you can adjust this set point to naturally start freeing up new energy in explosive batches, faster than you ever expected.
Learn to invest your newfound energy into what truly matters.
Establish these energy practices as your new normal, effortlessly.
Discover how your boundaries open doors to deeper connections with people.
Identify resistance for what it actually is – and how to move past it easily.
Shift into a whole new paradigm of how you relate to yourself, the people in your life, and how you live. You will never be the same.
MODULE 3: SYSTEMATIZE IT
The End of Backsliding. Learn foolproof methods for locking in these new techniques and new mindset…forever.
Go beyond “aha” moments to directly applying your spiritual insights into your life.
Make your new energy boundaries so easy that they take zero work to maintain.
Learn to navigate the tricky waters of changing relationships as you evolve beyond your previous set point.
Put your new habits on autopilot to maximize your newfound energy resources.
Learn what you’re really capable of when you harness all of your abundant, creative, human energy for your own causes and creations.
Celebrate your transformation and set goals for continued energy growth.
The next step in your evolution – professionally and personally.
How It Works
Emails are sent directly to your inbox twice each week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Each lesson takes about 15-30 minutes.
The course is expected to take 14 weeks, allowing time for practical application along the way.
Materials include written, easily-digestible lessons + accessible, hands-on exercises + practical homework.
Some emails will include embedded audio for guided meditations and exercises to do with your eyes closed. (Transcripts are provided.)
Now is the perfect time to buy while the course is in Beta – the price is more than 50% off! As we’re still smoothing out the wrinkles, you’ll have immediate access to me for any questions. All you’ve gotta do is press the “reply” button on any email in the series.
This is the most hands-on period of the course for me, so sign up now to take advantage of the limited-time personalized feedback available. And as the course evolves over time, you’ll receive immediate updates on new material. It’s a win-win!
In exchange, I request that you offer your honest feedback and let me know how Awakened Vitality is helping you to reclaim your energy, refuel your life, and break the cycle of burnout forever.
Picture it:
Nine weeks from now, you're thriving with a surplus of energy. You're saying 'no' without guilt, 'yes' to what you love, and you're caring for others without running on empty.
You come home after work and feel jazzed to take up your favorite hobby, a new creative pursuit, or play a sport or instrument again.
You feel engaged and passionate at work again.
You truly understand what a “work-life balance” is supposed to feel like.
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About the Founder of Awakened Vitality
Slade Powell, LMT (he/they) is the creator of The Diamond Room newsletter (often referred to as “the only email I actually want to open”) and Awakened Vitality, a digital course in creating energetic boundaries for people in the helping and caring professions. He hosted The Diamond Room podcast for three seasons over two years; it is currently archived and available on Spotify and iTunes.
A professional massage therapist for over 10 years, Slade specializes in deep tissue myofascial work, migraine relief, injury treatment, and bindegewebsmassage. He is a master-level Reiki practitioner and teaches meditation with a rotating band of rogue meditators at Kaleidoscope Meditation Group in Seattle, WA, USA.
Slade taught himself energy work after a few years in massage practice, when he kept tripping over people’s chakras. Having developed his methodology for setting and keeping energy boundaries relatively early in his career, Slade now incorporates many types of energy work to address the source of his clients’ varied issues.
Slade once made a high school art project out of hot-gluing together $1.92 in pennies to form one enormous mega-penny. It got an A.
FAQs
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Yes! Awakened Vitality is for anyone who would like more energy at their disposal. If you’re not feeling depleted and exhausted, you will still get a huge boost of energy, as well as future-proofing yourself in your new career with these essential building blocks laid at the foundation.
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Absolutely, my friend. If you’re feeling energetically drained or depleted, you will still gain an enormous benefit from this course, no matter what industry you work in. This course is definitely for you.
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Yes! In fact, if you don’t see results from Awakened Vitality in the first 30 days, you can get a full 100% refund, no questions asked.
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