Meet Jenna Walden, Registered Psychotherapist & Founder of The Burnout Bar

THE HUMAN BEHIND

THE BURNOUT BAR

I Was Tired of Just Getting Through My Life.

And I had a pretty good life.

That was the confusing part.

I loved my family. I had worked hard for my career. I had things I was incredibly grateful for.

And I was still overwhelmed, irritable, exhausted and constantly thinking about the next thing that needed to get done.

I didn’t want a different life.

I wanted to actually feel like myself inside the one I already had.

Maybe you know the feeling ..

Nothing was “wrong” ... but I wasn’t okay.

I was doing all the things.

I was working, building my career, being a mom, being a wife.. keeping track of appointments, meals, schedules, laundry, work, groceries and approximately 700 tabs open in my brain at all times.

From the outside, life kept moving. But inside? I felt like I was always on.

Resting made me feel guilty.

One more question could make me irrationally irritated.

Everything felt urgent. And even when I finally had a minute to myself, my brain had absolutely no idea how to turn off.

Sound familiar?

I thought I needed to get better at handling my life.

Turns out, I needed to understand why I was living it like everything was an emergency.

I Needed to Stop Living in Survival Mode...

I'll be so dang honest, learning to understand my nervous system changed the way I looked at burnout.

- I started noticing the patterns underneath the overwhelm.

- Figuring out why slowing down felt uncomfortable.
- Figuring out why I felt responsible for everything.
- Why boundaries came with guilt.
- Why my body could be exhausted while my brain refused to stop.
- Why “just take some time for yourself” never seemed to fix anything.

And instead of constantly asking:

“What is wrong with me?”

I started asking:

“What is my body trying to tell me?”

That question changed a lot.

and that's how we got here ...

This space is built for women like us.

The women who don't necessarily want to quit their jobs, leave their relationships, or move to Bali and meditate for six hours a day... although that sounds wonderful. 😂

You love your life.

You’re just exhausted from carrying it.

The Burnout Bar exists to help overwhelmed women understand what’s happening underneath the burnout, work with their nervous systems, protect their capacity and start feeling like themselves again.

Without burning their whole life down to do it.

START WITH THE FREE RESET

okay but who am i?

Hey, I'm Jenna!

I'm a Registered Psychotherapist, educator, business owner, wife, mom and fellow recovering “I'll just do it myself” woman.

Professionally, my work focuses on anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, motherhood, mental load and helping women better understand the patterns keeping them stuck in survival mode. But The Burnout Bar isn't about me standing on the other side telling you I have life completely figured out, because absolutely freaking not. 😂

It's about combining what I know as a therapist with what I've learned as a woman actually living this stuff.

I want psychology, nervous-system education and practical tools to feel understandable, relatable and (most importantly) usable in your actual life.

Because insight is great, but I want you to be able to do something with it.

WHEN I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BURNOUT,

you can usually find me:

→ Reheating the same coffee for the third time.

→ Chasing around my toddler, Stella.

→ Hanging out with our border collie/lab, Molson.

→ Creating something for The Burnout Bar when I definitely said I was going to stop working.

→ Building a slower life with my family.

→ Sending my husband a Reel while he's sitting approximately six feet away from me.

Basically:

I'm therapist, mom, business owner and woman figuring it out right alongside you.

SO .. where do you start?

You don't have to figure that out alone.
Whether you just realized "oh shit, I might actually be in survival mode" or you're ready to start changing the patterns underneath it, there's somewhere to begin.