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“Melissa’s passion is contagious - she doesn’t just speak, she ignites. She has a gift for moving people from burnout to purpose, helping them reclaim their energy and joy.”
Angela Vissia
let’s MEET Melissa
Do you dedicate your life to helping others, yet struggle to prioritize your own well-being? What would it look like to finally break this exhausting cycle? With nearly 70% of helping professionals experiencing chronic burnout, this crisis demands real solutions. Melissa Pickle guides overwhelmed helping professionals from exhaustion to sustainable balance through lived experience, evidence-based strategies, and immediately actionable tools. Having navigated her own burnout journey, she understands the "helper's paradox" that makes accepting support so difficult. With a B.A. in Psychology, M.Ed., and Associate Certified Life Coach credential with a Health and Wellness Certification, Melissa translates stress science into practical techniques that fit real, busy lives. Audiences leave her presentations with renewed energy, clear priorities, and a personalized wellness toolkit they can implement immediately, transforming burnout into balance.
After Hearing Melissa Speak, Your Audience Will:
Recognize burnout's early warnings: Identify the physical, emotional, and mental signs of burnout and compassion fatigue before exhaustion forces them to stop, with specific daily practices to intervene early.
Break free from burnout myths: Recognize the false beliefs keeping them trapped in exhaustion cycles and implement proven strategies that transform overwhelm into sustainable balance.
Build sustainable self-care systems: Learn practical, enjoyable strategies that address their physical, mental, and emotional needs without adding more stress to already full schedules.
Complete their body's stress cycles: Engage in evidence-based techniques to actually discharge stress through movement, breathing, and connection rather than letting it accumulate in their nervous system.
Without strategies to break the burnout cycle, helping professionals will continue to leave their chosen fields or to disengage. Book Melissa today!
MELISSA in ACTION
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MELISSA’S KEYNOTE TOPICS
TAKING CARE OF YOU: BREAK FREE FROM BURNOUT
This keynote explores how the "me last" mentality prevalent among helping professionals leads to burnout and compassion fatigue, and why engaging in meaningful self-care is vital not only for your own wellbeing but also for your ability to effectively serve those around you.
FROM BURNOUT TO BALANCED: DEBUNKING BURNOUT MYTHS THAT HOLD US BACK & WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
In this deeply personal and research-backed keynote, you'll discover why traditional approaches to preventing burnout often fail, challenge five myths that keep helping professionals trapped in cycles of exhaustion and overwhelm, and learn what actually works to break free and live a more balanced life.
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MELISSA’S WORKSHOP TOPICS
Breaking the Stress Cycle: A Science-Based Approach to Managing Stress and Preventing Burnout
Participants learn to identify their physical, emotional, and mental stress responses as well as how to complete their stress cycles to break free from the pattern of suppressed emotions and ongoing stress.
Recognizing & Combatting Unhelpful Thoughts
This session explores how your thoughts contribute to stress levels and teaches you to identify unhelpful thought patterns while learning specific strategies to replace them with healthier thinking habits.
Emotionally Exhausted to Firmly Flourishing
This workshop focuses on identifying the signs and symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue, learning practical self-care strategies to implement immediately, developing a personalized self-care action plan, and completing a self-assessment tool measuring burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction.
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