July is the Halfway Point: Time to Reset Before the Next Burnout Cycle Begins

Mid-year calendar check-in: July is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and reset. Is your year going the way you hoped? Therapy for therapists in Texas can help you realign before burnout takes over.

July is here again. If you’re a therapist, caregiver, or natural-born helper, it probably snuck up on you while you were too busy juggling everyone else’s needs. You’ve already survived the chaos of “May-cember”,  those overwhelming last few weeks of the school year where every activity, celebration, and end-of-year obligation gets jammed into a single month. And now it’s summer, but nothing about it feels slower or more spacious. You’re still booked, still exhausted, still holding it all together for everyone else… without school or childcare to lighten the load. Does the vacation you scheduled even qualify as a vacation if you’re already stressed out by the packing and coordinating?

Here’s the truth: if you don’t hit reset now, July will turn into August, then the holidays will blindside you, again. Then, you’ll end up in the same shit-storm spiral you swore you wouldn’t repeat.

This is your mid-year moment.
Not just to pause, but to pivot.

Let’s Be Honest: Is This Year Going How You Imagined?

Back in January, maybe you had big intentions.

You were going to rest more.

Prioritize yourself.

Schedule that therapy appointment.

Use all your PTO.

Ask for the raise you deserve.

Break the pattern of overcommitting and under-receiving.

So, be honest with yourself:

• Has this year gone the way you hoped it would?

• Are you feeling supported emotionally, physically, and logistically?

• Is what you’re doing actually working for you?

• Can you imagine living this way for the next 5 years?

These questions aren’t meant to shame you.
They’re here to wake you up.  Because you need to reconnect with yourself.

Because the patterns you’re in didn’t start this year (or maybe even this decade)… and they won’t magically resolve on their own.

The Myth of “Pushing Through”

If you’re like most of my clients (and, truthfully, like me at times), your first instinct might be to just get through summer. You’re telling yourself, “Once school starts, it’ll get better,” or “After this busy season, I’ll take a break.”

But here’s the thing:
You said the same thing in January.
And March.
And May.

You’ve been pushing through so long that you’ve lost track of what you’re even pushing toward. And what’s worse, there’s no one throwing you a parade for it. Just more expectations. More exhaustion. More disconnection from yourself. I know that no matter how fast you run away from yourself, you are still standing in the same place.

The burnout isn’t a surprise to you, and it’s not your fault. It’s a system failure.
And the system isn’t just your calendar; it’s how you’ve been taught to attach your worth to being needed. It’s how you are deeply competent and often praised for how much you give, but that same praise has become a prison. You’ve said yes for so long, you don’t know what you would say no to, even if you had the space to do so.

What If You Used July to Reset?

Mid-year doesn’t have to mean crisis.
It can mean clarity.

Here’s what I ask my therapy clients in July — especially my fellow therapists, helpers, and emotionally overextended fixers in Texas:

• What are you proud of from the first half of the year?

• What habits, roles, or expectations do you want to release?

• What would a more sustainable second half of the year actually look like?

Not the Pinterest-worthy version of your life.
Not “ideal Aubrey on her best day.”
But realistic. Grounded. Doable. Supportive.

You are past the point of just needing a break, a splash or self-care, or an employee appreciation pizza party. You are burning alive, inhaling the smoke instead of getting out of the burning house. Instead of continuing to set yourself on fire, let’s walk through the wreckage together and rebuild.

You’re Not Lazy. You’re Under-Resourced.

I want to say this clearly:
You are not failing because you’re tired. You’re not failing at all.
You’re tired because you’ve been doing too much for too long with too little support.

Most of my clients aren’t strangers to hard work. In fact, they’re so good at working hard and taking care of others that they don’t realize their baseline is full-blown depletion. Your 50% is other people’s 120% effort.

If you’re constantly saying:

• “I’m just so behind.”

• “I can’t even think straight lately.”

• “There’s no time for me to rest.”

• “I wonder how much a barista makes..”

• “What if I just walked away from it all?”

That’s not laziness. That’s burnout. That’s compassion fatigue.
And it’s the kind of burnout therapy that I can help unravel because I understand the unique emotional labor of being the one everyone turns to. I know the guilt while fantasizing about cancelling everything for the day and sitting in silence, of just wanting someone to not need ANYTHING from me for one day. Let me help you step out of survival mode and into something more sustainable.

You Don’t Have to Wait for January

You don’t need a new planner.

You don’t need a total life overhaul.

And for god’s sake, you don’t need to start a new diet or exercise plan.

You just need to start where you are, right now, and get honest.

If you’re ready to reset and build a life that you don’t want to escape from, I can help.
Book a consultation today HERE.

Let this July be the turning point. Because you deserve more than survival mode.

Therapy for Therapists in Texas (and the Helpers Who’ve Been Doing It for Free)

If you’re a licensed therapist, social worker, nurse, educator, nonprofit worker, or just the “strong one” in your family, you already know what it’s like to hold space for everyone else. You’ve been doing it for years, professionally or unofficially.

But who’s holding space for you?

My practice specializes in therapy for therapists in Texas — and for anyone who’s ever been the go-to, the peacekeeper, the person everyone leans on when things go wrong.

Together, we create a space that’s not about fixing anyone else…
It’s about reconnecting you to you.
It’s about building a life that doesn’t require constant self-sacrifice.
It’s about rest, recalibration, and reclaiming the version of you that doesn’t have to burn out to be valuable.

Want to learn more about me? Read more HERE.