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Episode 100: What to Do When You Feel Unappreciated at Work and in Life? | Our 100th Episode and What We’ve Learned

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When Angela and I recorded our first podcast episode back in 2018, neither of us knew where this journey would lead.

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Over the years, we’ve shared conversations about work, family, leadership, communication, resilience, health, and the many ways relationships influence our lives.

We laughed together.

We learned together.

And through it all, Better relationships begin with understanding and respect.

Episode 100 allowed us to pause and reflect not only on the feeling of being unappreciated but also on everything this podcast has taught us.

Some lessons came from our own experiences.

Others came from guests who shared their stories.

A few came from you, our listeners, whose questions and suggestions inspired episodes we might never have even considered otherwise.

One of the things we have learned is that relationships continue to grow when we are willing to listen with compassion and explore different perspectives.

This is what we hope this podcast is: a place where meaningful conversations help us better understand ourselves and the people around us.

Whether you have been listening since our first episode or have only recently discovered the podcast, thank you for sharing this journey with us.

We are grateful you are here, and we look forward to continuing these conversations with you in the upcoming episodes.

Here’s to building better relationships at home, at work, and everywhere life takes us.

Discover the Building Better Relationship Journal & Meditation to Empower you for Beautiful Relationships.⁠ Video made in Lumen5.

Patti’s Links:

To schedule a life and work-life balance coaching or Reiki session

If you would like to learn more about working with Patti for coaching services⁠⁠

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast ⁠⁠

Angela’s Links:

Angela’s new eBook, The Empath’s Guide: How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy ⁠https://bit.ly/empathebook1⁠

Join Angela’s online Movement Class 7 pm Mondays, Sydney time ⁠https://classbento.com.au/dance-healing-feel-more-relaxed-and-at-home-in-your-body⁠

Join Angela on Facebook: Energy and Dance Healing for Intuitives⁠ www.facebook.com/groups/energydancehealing/⁠

BBR Intro and Outro video made in @headlinerapp 
The welcome and thank you graphic videos were made in @Canva

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. The coaching tools, personal experiences, and Reiki principles shared are intended to support personal growth and healthier relationships. They are not a substitute for professional medical, mental health, legal, or financial advice. Please seek guidance from a qualified professional for your individual circumstances.

#BuildingBetterRelationshipsatHomeandWork #CoachingForInspirationWithPatti #WorkLifeBalance #Leadership #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth #Podcast

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Episode 98 – Stop Absorbing Your Partner’s Energy (Stay Connected Without Losing Yourself)

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Do you absorb your partner’s or others’ emotions or feel emotionally drained after difficult conversations? 

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Many caring people find themselves carrying more than their share of emotional weight.

You want to help. You want to be supportive. You want the people you care about to feel better. But along the way, you may begin to absorb their stress, anxiety, frustration, or overwhelm as if it were your own.

This can happen in relationships, with your partner, in friendships, families, and even in the workplace.

Before you know it, you’re emotionally exhausted.

For example, someone shared a challenge they were facing. Your spouse is stressed, a coworker is frustrated, a family member is overwhelmed, or a friend needs support.

Hours later, you realize you’re still carrying the weight of that conversation and rethinking it over and over. 

Many caring, compassionate people unintentionally absorb others’ emotions. While empathy is a beautiful gift, carrying everyone else’s emotional load can leave us drained, overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted, and disconnected from ourselves.

There is a difference between supporting someone and carrying others’ emotions.

Supporting someone allows us to:

  • Listen with compassion
  • Offer encouragement
  • Be present

Carrying someone else’s emotions often looks like:

  • Worrying about them long after the conversation ends
  • Feeling responsible for solving their problems
  • Absorbing their stress as if it were your own
  • Feeling emotionally exhausted afterward

Self-Reflection Questions to Ask Yourself:

The next time you feel emotionally overwhelmed after a conversation, pause and ask:

  • What emotions belong to me?
  • What emotions belong to the other person?
  • What do I need right now to feel grounded?
  • Am I supporting or am I carrying the emotions of others?

These questions can create awareness and help you reconnect with yourself.

The strongest relationships are not built by carrying everything for one another. They are built through connection, communication, respect, and emotional awareness.

Thank you for being here.

Discover the Building Better Relationship Journal & Meditation to Empower you for Beautiful Relationships.⁠ Video made in Lumen5.

Patti’s Links:

To schedule a life and work-life balance coaching or Reiki session

If you would like to learn more about working with Patti for coaching services⁠⁠

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast ⁠⁠

Angela’s Links:

Angela’s new eBook, The Empath’s Guide: How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy ⁠https://bit.ly/empathebook1⁠

Join Angela’s online Movement Class 7 pm Mondays, Sydney time ⁠https://classbento.com.au/dance-healing-feel-more-relaxed-and-at-home-in-your-body⁠

Join Angela on Facebook: Energy and Dance Healing for Intuitives⁠ www.facebook.com/groups/energydancehealing/⁠

BBR Intro and Outro video made in @headlinerapp 
The welcome and thank you graphic videos were made in @Canva

Disclaimer: This podcast episode is intended for educational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical.

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Episode 95 – What Healthy Support Actually Looks Like in Teams and in Families

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Many of us capable, reliable, and caring people find ourselves becoming the “go-to” person.

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In this Building Better Relationships at Home and Work with Angela and Patti Podcast in Episode 95, we explore the difference between helping and over-functioning and how to support others without taking over.

At work, that might look like finishing a task for someone because it feels faster.
At home, it might mean solving a problem for someone you love to make things easier for them.

Most of us genuinely want to be supportive. We want to help the people we care about. We want to make things easier for our team, our family, or our friends. And often we step in because we see a problem and we know we can fix it.

But sometimes support can quietly turn into something else.

It can turn into carrying more than our share.
It can turn into stepping in too quickly.
And sometimes, without meaning to, it can even prevent someone else from growing.

As you think about support in your own life, you might reflect on a few questions:

• When do I tend to step in quickly to help?
• What signals show up in my body when I feel responsible for solving something?
• What might change if I paused and asked what kind of support is actually needed?

These small moments of awareness can help us create support that builds confidence rather than dependency.

Sometimes, a thoughtful conversation and a fresh perspective can open the door to meaningful change.

Thanks for listening to or watching this video. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe. 🙂

Disclaimer: This podcast and blog content are for educational and reflective purposes and not intended to replace professional medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice.

Patti’s Links:

To schedule a life and work-life balance coaching or Reiki session

If you would like to learn more about working with Patti for coaching services⁠⁠

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast ⁠⁠

Angela’s Links:

Angela’s new eBook, The Empath’s Guide: How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy ⁠https://bit.ly/empathebook1⁠

Join Angela’s online Movement Class 7 pm Mondays, Sydney time ⁠https://classbento.com.au/dance-healing-feel-more-relaxed-and-at-home-in-your-body⁠

Join Angela on Facebook: Energy and Dance Healing for Intuitives⁠ www.facebook.com/groups/energydancehealing/⁠

Discover Dance Healing In-person in Sydney or Online ⁠https://dancewithangelahealing.as.me/dancehealing⁠

BBR Intro and Outro video made in @headlinerapp.

The welcome and thank you graphic videos were made in @Canva.

This Video was streamed in StreamYard.

Posted in Blog, Leadership Inspiration, Personal Inspiration, Podcasts, Video, Work-Life balance, YouTube

From Chaos to Calm: Coaching Tools to Design a Life You Love

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In this episode of The Coach’s Corner, host Davina Lyons sits down with Patti Oskvarek, a Life, Leadership, and Work-Life Balance Coach and Reiki Master, for a powerful conversation about confidence, boundaries, and creating a life with intention.

Click to watch this podcast episode of The Coaches’ Corner.

Patti shares her personal journey from shyness and people-pleasing to finding her voice and helping others design a life they truly love.


Through coaching, Reiki, affirmations, and reflective practices, she guides individuals toward calm, clarity, and meaningful personal growth, both at work and beyond it.


✨ In this episode, we explore:

Finding balance in a busy, demanding world, letting go of people-pleasing and honoring boundaries, leading with intention and inner peace

🔗 Learn more about Patti and her work:

To schedule a life and work-life balance coaching or Reiki session

If you would like to learn more about working with Patti for coaching services⁠⁠

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast

To learn more about Davina Lyons | “Mama Lyons.” Empowering authentic growth through storytelling, mindset, and resilience.

Davina’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@risingresilience1

Davina was on Building Better Relationships at Home and Work with Angela and Patti podcast Episode 56 – Being Your Authentic Me in Relationships

👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who needs a little more calm and clarity in their life.

This video was streamed in StreamYard.

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Episode 93 – Overwhelmed Inside, Guarded Outside: The Intimacy Disconnect

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What if the pressure to appear calm, competent, and capable is actually what’s draining you the most?

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Many professionals and caregivers feel an unspoken expectation to hold it all together. In Episode 93 – Overwhelmed Inside, Guarded Outside: The Intimacy Disconnect, we explore how this pressure can quietly disconnect us from ourselves and others.

Connection doesn’t have to be deep, intense, or exhausting. Sometimes, it just needs to feel safe.

At home, a supportive connection might mean asking for quiet time without guilt. At work, it could mean proactively sharing your progress on a project to reduce anxiety.

When you notice overwhelm:

  1. Take a Pause
  2. Offer yourself compassion
  3. Choose one small action that supports connection

Podcast Affirmation

Even when I feel overwhelmed inside, I am learning how to stay gently connected on the outside.

If this blog and video spoke to something you’ve been carrying quietly, consider staying connected. Subscribe, listen along on YouTube or Spotify, and return whenever you need a moment of calm, clarity, and encouragement.
Thank you for being here.

Click to Schedule a life, work-life balance coaching or Reiki session with Patti.


#WorkLifeBalance
#HealthyBoundaries
#LeadershipWellbeing
#RelationshipsAtWork
#RelationshipsAtHome
Posted in Blog, Building Better Relationships Podcast, Podcasts, YouTube

Episode 88 – Healing the Habit of Over-Responsibility in Relationships at Work and Home ❤️

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Have you ever felt like you’re the one who has to keep it all together?
That if you let go, everything might fall apart?

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In this episode, we’re exploring something so many of us quietly struggle with: the habit of over-responsibility.

We might feel like the one who’s always holding it all together in life, work, and relationships. But here’s the truth: we were never meant to carry it all.

✨ We don’t have to over-function to be valuable.
✨ We don’t have to say yes to everything to be loved.

Let this episode be a gentle reminder that healing begins with letting go and that healthy, balanced relationships are possible when you lead with love and boundaries. ❤️

🎙️ Thanks for listening. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.

*Special offer from Angela: online sessions normally $125 USD, now just $87 (prices in AUD)

*Exploring Feeling Responsible For Other People’s Actions (Coaching for Inspiration with Patti – Exploring Life and Work with Patti Podcast Episode.

*⚖️ To find out more about the Work-Life Balance Affirmation Cards ⚖️

*Discover and purchase the Building Better Relationship Journal & Meditation to Empower you for Beautiful Relationships.⁠ 

The opening video of Building Better Relationship Journal & Meditation was made in @Lumen5  

Angela’s Links:

Angela’s new eBook: The Empath’s Guide: How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy

Energy Healing and Protection for Empaths – Join our Next Zoom Class Here

Join Angela on Facebook: Energy and Dance Healing for Intuitives

Discover Dance Healing with Angela

Patti’s Links:

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast

Patti’s YouTube channel

For all of Patti’s social media, products, and services 

BBR Intro and Outro video made in @headlinerapp  

The welcome and thank you graphic videos were made in @Canva

DISCLAIMER | These videos are for educational purposes, entertainment, and from our opinions and points of view.

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#BurnoutRecovery
#WomenInLeadership
#HealthyBoundaries
#SelfCareIsStrength
#EmpoweredLiving
#CoachingForHealing
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 Episode 87 – Trust Yourself: How to Define What’s Right or Wrong for You!

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Do you listen to your intuition?

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In this insightful podcast episode, (we) Angela and Patti explore powerful tools for personal growth and emotional healing. We discuss the importance of setting healthy boundaries, listening to intuition, and using movement therapy to connect with one’s body.

Angela shares how dance healing helps break free from people-pleasing patterns and create space for receiving what you truly want. Patti opens up about overcoming overthinking and trusting your inner guidance.

Together, we offer practical advice on cultivating self-awareness, emotional balance, and stronger relationships. This episode provides valuable insights for anyone looking to empower themselves, build healthy boundaries, and embrace a more fulfilling life.

💭 Questions to Ponder:

1. How can we learn to trust our intuition when making decisions at home or work, especially when those decisions might conflict with others’ expectations?

2. What strategies do you recommend to set healthy boundaries in personal and professional relationships while still staying true to ourselves?

3. How do you build better trust in what is wrong and right for you?

Thank you for tuning into this Building Better Relationships at Home and Work episode with Angela and Patti! We hope that the insights shared by Angela and Patti have inspired you to embrace your personal growth journey, trust your intuition, and cultivate healthier, more fulfilling relationships—starting with the one you have with yourself. Remember, setting boundaries, listening to your inner guidance, and using tools like movement therapy can help you feel more connected, empowered, and open to receiving all you deserve.

If you’ve found value in this episode, we encourage you to share it with others who might benefit from these powerful practices. Stay tuned for more episodes with tips, real-life stories, and actionable steps to help you grow and thrive.

🎙️ Thanks for watching this video. 🙂 Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.

Discover the Building Better Relationship Journal & Meditation to Empower you for Beautiful Relationships

👉 Angela’s links:

Angela’s new eBook

The Empath’s Guide: How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy

Energy Healing and Protection for Empaths – Join our Next Zoom Class Here

Join Angela on Facebook: – Energy and Dance Healing for Intuitives

Discover Dance Healing with Angela

👉 Patti’s Links:

To schedule a life and work-life balance coaching session.

If you want to learn more about working with Patti for coaching services.

⚖️ To find out more about the Work-Life Balance Affirmation Cards ⚖️

⚖️ Want to learn more about a Work-Life Balance Plan ⚖️

Exploring Life and Work with Patti – From Chaos to Calm Podcast.

For all Patti’s social media, products, and services.

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Posted in Blog, Chilling with Patti and Lynn, Inspirational Moments, Personal Inspiration, Podcasts, Video, YouTube

Patti and Lynn’s Paintings Progress

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Here’s the painting progress of Patti and Lynn’s paintings from Episode 2 – ☕️ Paint, Sip, and Relax: Watch Us Create 🎨🖌️.

Click to watch Patti and Lynn’s Paintings Progress Video.

Click to watch the full video of Episode 2 – ☕️ Paint, Sip, and Relax: Watch Us Create 🎨🖌️.

Slideshow video was made in‪@canva‬

The slideshow video music was from YouTube Audio Library Title: Pienso Viento Artist: Casa Rosa

🎙️ Don’t forget to like, subscribe, share, and comment.

Thank you for chilling with us! 😀

We (Patti and Lynn) talk about everyday situations that can arise in our lives. Two friends who have known each other for four decades want to share fun life adventures, life experiences, and life lessons to bring positivity into the world. 🦋

To learn more about Patti’s coaching services.

#chillingwithPattiandLynn #inspiration #lifecoaching #painting #personalinspiration #podcast #youtubeseries #shortvideo #videoshort #paintsipandrelax

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Episode 2 – ☕️ Paint, Sip, and Relax: Watch Us Create 

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🤔 What are some things you do to have ease in your life? 

In this episode of Chilling with Patti and Lynn, we share about finding peace and balance in our lives. 

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Come on in and chill with us. 

☕️ We are sipping tea, painting, and chatting about our life adventures while painting and sipping tea. 

🎨🖌️ We share our paintings, tea time adventures, and painting experiences.  

🎨🖌️ Hey, Bring out your favorite beverage and craft project, and paint with us. 

☕️ “Sip back and relax.” This saying was on our tea bag from @LiptonEn (not a sponsor). We’re enjoying our Black Tea bags with hot water and Irish creamer. 

How about commenting on the name of the traveling plant? 

🎙️ Don’t forget to like, subscribe, share, and comment. 

Thank you for chilling with us! 😀

We (Patti and Lynn) talk about everyday situations that can arise in our lives. Two friends who have known each other for four decades want to share fun life adventures, life experiences, and life lessons to bring positivity into the world. 

🦋 To learn more about Patti’s coaching services.  

We designed the Chilling with Patti and Lynn Logo in @Canva and @Bitmoji. 

We designed this episode’s Thumbnail in @Canva. 

⏳ Time Stamps  

00:00 Introduction 

00:27 Introducing our painting projects 

004:17 Painting starts 

05:50 Sharing about tea adventures 

22:47 Sharing about previous painting adventures 

34:31 Asking for more names for the Travel Plant 

38:13 Thank you for coming and chilling with us 

DISCLAIMER | These videos are published for educational purposes, entertainment, and from our opinions and points of view.  

Posted in Blog, Podcasts, Video, Work-Life balance

Voices of Resilience Video Series, Ep. 6, featuring Patti Oskvarek

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I was featured in the Voices of Resilience Videos Series by the founder, Davina Lyons. A place dedicated to helping parents raise confident, resilient kids ready to thrive in today’s world.

🎥 Welcome to the Voices of Resilience Video Series, Ep. 6, featuring Patti Oskvarek 🎥

Click to watch the video of Voices of Resilience at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=477239682123606&rdid=S4vWcijIRNBw4weg

Patti Oskvarek of Coaching for Inspiration with Patti. Patti is a Certified Professional Coach and Certified Master Coach specializing in Work-Life Balance and Leadership coaching, Reiki Master, and Podcaster. Patti inspires others to pursue their passions in life through their relationships, careers, business, and leadership development.

She became a Coach and Reiki practitioner to help people follow their hearts, use their talents, and live purposeful, balanced, and fulfilling lives. With a unique approach to coaching, Patti has dedicated herself to helping others find passion, purpose, and confidence in all they do.

Her theory is that to find business success; you must know how to find happiness in other areas of life and understand that you must learn to achieve the true meaning of work-life balance. Patti is committed to helping managers, supervisors, and others become better leaders and live more purposeful, balanced lives outside work.

This impactful series, brought to you by Rising Resilience, is your go-to for inspiring stories, actionable strategies, and empowering conversations about building resilience in every area of life.

🎬 Please tune in and join us on this journey to resilience!

Go to the website to learn more about Davina Lyons’ Rising of Resilience.
at https://risingresilience.org/the-resilience-hub

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