What Are We All About?

Hi, I'm Sarah Rose

Fresh Rise Group Founder + Creator of Calm in the Chaos!

Mid-career women, like you, are feeling less happy, more stuck, on the brink of burnout, and just trying to figure out how to fit busy work + life together!  Does this sound familiar?

About 9 years ago, I started to feel chronically stressed and overwhelmed in my workplace. Luckily at that point I was pregnant and that maternity leave came at the perfect time!  I returned with my tank refilled and a clean slate on my to do list.  However, I quickly found myself back in leadership trying to juggle all of the things, helping all of my colleagues, holding responsibility for it all, throw in COVID, and I found myself back on the point of what I now know as overwhelm + close to burnout. I was working long hours, feeling like there was never enough time, like everything was hard and complicated, and to be honest, just feeling like a failure.  It was then that I realized there had to be more options for me. I started a personal journey of reflection, exploring energy, coaching, researching about employee engagement and burnout, observing my colleagues, analyzing strateiges - you get the idea!

I started to pay better attention - I realized that when I was feeling exhausted by work, I felt even more exhausted at home. The guilt kicked in because I had nothing left to give my family. So, I'd try something and it might work for a week or two but boom, back in overwhelm. I laugh at myself now: I had undiagnosed ADHD, mid-life hormone changes happening, and a job that had no clear end points.

What I didn't know at that point is you actually do BURNOUT.  It's not just a thing people talk about.

You can't keep going and you won't have control over when that hits. You actually start to not care.  Like you feel like none of it matters. Deadlines don't matter. Relationships don't matter.  Money doesn't matter.  It's like a work-focused depression.

It's like your brain hits a point where it just says, "Lady, I quit, you should of listened to me and you didn't - we are done here!" 

It happened to me not once but two freaking times before I really had to pay attention.  

It was time to to start a new beginning. Frankly, I didn't get the choice. So, here we are, wrapping up all of the hard knocks of life with all of the best tips, tools, and perspective tricks that one finds on their way out! I've learned so much on this journey, it's time to share it. 

This is why I Calm in the Chaos exists for each of you.  I needed to know that I wasn't crazy. I needed to know that there were better ways of working. I needed to know someone else was in the same boat. I needed connection around these topics.

"You are more powerful, more creative, and more in control of the design of your work + life than you realize."

- Sarah Rose