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Shannon Bergstrom joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to talk about perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the cost of chasing impossible standards. A teacher, wife, and mother, Shannon shares how childhood loss shaped her instinct to keep the peace - and how two experiences of burnout finally taught her to listen to her body.

After losing her younger sister as a pre-teen, Shannon found herself internalizing emotion and quietly managing everyone else’s comfort - a pattern that followed her into adulthood. It took two significant episodes of burnout for her to connect the dots between that early experience and the way stress was showing up in her body. In this conversation, she talks candidly about setting boundaries, releasing the need for external validation, and trusting her body’s signals as part of her resilience practice.

If you’ve ever sought your worth through other people’s approval, this episode offers a path back to yourself.

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