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Above the Line Living: From Burnout to Embodied Truth | Ep 260
Stress / Self-Care Episode 260 • 28th February 2026 • Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call! • Melissa Deally
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What happens when outward success no longer matches your inner truth? 💫 In this episode, Carolyn Cooper shares her bold “vision quest” moment—quitting her job, selling her house, and traveling Europe to rediscover herself—and how it sparked a life devoted to helping women heal burnout and self-abandonment.

Together, Carolyn and Melissa dive into why so many high-achieving women put themselves last, and how self-care, self-love, and radical honesty become gateways to deeper peace and purpose 🌿. Carolyn also breaks down her powerful AIM High Method—Truth, Transmutation, and Transmission—and opens the door to her daily rituals, including Magnified Healing, that help her stay grounded, aligned, and impactful.

If you’re craving clarity, calm, and a reconnection with your authentic self, this conversation is an invitation to listen inward—and rise above the line 🔥🎧

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Are you ready to rise above old limitations and ignite your purpose with love at the center?


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Episode Summary:

Carolyn's journey of self-discovery @ 00:00

Carolyn shares her story of being a driven, high-achieving woman who felt something was missing despite her outward success. She describes quitting her job, selling her house, and traveling to Europe on a "vision quest" at age 30, which helped her start listening to her inner voice and trusting herself more. This led her to start her own consulting business and eventually focus on supporting women who are struggling with burnout and self-abandonment.

The importance of self-care and self-love @ 05:15

Carolyn and Melissa discuss how women are often programmed to prioritize everyone else's needs over their own, leading to depletion and loss of identity. They emphasize the importance of self-care, self-compassion, and honoring one's authentic self as the path to greater peace, purpose, and impact.

Carolyn's AIM High Method @ 16:55

Carolyn outlines the three phases of her AIM High Method: 1) Truth - honestly examining one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; 2) Transmutation - going through a process of inner transformation and aligning with one's true self; and 3) Transmission - living from a place of grounded, authentic presence and using that to positively impact the world.

Carolyn's morning routine and Magnified Healing @ 39:43

Carolyn shares details of her morning ritual, including journaling, voice work, and the practice of Magnified Healing, which she says has been transformative for her and allows her to connect with higher realms and hold sacred space for healing. She emphasizes the importance of small, consistent daily practices in creating lasting change.

Carolyn's invitation and final words @ 51:34

Carolyn encourages the audience to have hope, trust their inner wisdom, and take steps to honor and reclaim their authentic selves. She offers a 21-day "Above the Line Living" audio gift and invites listeners to connect with her further through her website, social media, and upcoming challenges.


About the Guest:

Carolyn Cooper is a seasoned guide and mentor for high-capacity women whose outer success no longer matches their inner truth. Over four decades, she has walked beside leaders, healers, and visionaries who are done performing and ready to come home to who they really are. She created the AIM High Method, a three-phase journey of Truth, Transmutation, and Transmission that helps women release self-abandonment, regulate their leadership, and redesign life and business around their Authentic Identity, so peace, purpose, and impact can expand without costing them their soul.

Contacts:

carolyn@theinspiredconnection.ca

www.theinspiredconnection.ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredconnectioninc/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inspiredbusinessdevelopment/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.coopermcouatt

Love Inspired Leadership Podcast: https://love-inspired-leadership.captivate.fm/

Connect with Carolyn: https://go.oncehub.com/ConnectwithCarolyn

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.


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