About 

Your Coach: Nicole

Why We Started

Coaching Process

Your Coach: Nicole Castillo

I am currently in my mid-twenties, Latina, have two invisible disabilities and live my challenges daily. My first experience with burnout came from working endlessly to escape my traumatic environment in Austin, TX, to move to Seattle, WA, only for a global pandemic to rupture the world. Later that year, I would get the news that my body was betraying me, resulting in me choosing a hysterectomy to preserve my life…

During this time, I was also experiencing workplace abuse that contributed to my burnout; being gaslighted left and right while worrying about the end of my life resulted in a year-long burnout cycle that I felt entirely powerless to.

Growing up as the parentified eldest daughter in a patriarchal Mexican household, my inherited beliefs were to fight against my intuition and just. keep. going. That left me hitting rock bottom after surgery and quitting that job. I pushed so hard that my burnout caught up to me, and I went into a year-long freeze response. I lost everything and had to build myself from scratch.

During that time, I finally did the internal work. I found my personal spirituality, went to therapy, and got diagnosed with a myriad of things. Over the course of 12 undiagnosed years of Endometriosis, undiagnosed ADHD, and a lifetime of mental health struggles and abuse, even through these experiences, that year was the hardest fight of my life.

I’ve worked against myself, I’ve worked against traumatic internal family systems, abusive workplaces, racial biases (even as a light-skinned Latina), internalized shame, colonization, and much more, and I know just how fucking hard it is to keep going.

I have built myself from nothing to pursue a person whom the old me would have been intimidated by because of how inherently powerful she is.

That’s why I started Holistic Burnout Solutions, to become the light I needed in my darkness… And hopefully, the light in yours.

Why we started

Everyone holds the power of choice. The world fights against that power, but with the right tools, anyone can fight back with compassion and nurturing. That’s not to say that it gets any easier, or that you’ll be cured of burnout, but that you can change your mindset to overcome it. I know you have worked hard to find something that “Fixes” everything, and that’s why you’re here.

Too often we beat ourselves up for not meeting our expectations. That disrupts our nervous systems, perpetuates colonization and burnout culture, and deepens our shame which becomes a fact rather than a belief. Every time you fail, every time you don’t meet your (or someone else's) needs or expectations, every time you say yes when you want to say no, it leaves a soul wound. You deserve to heal that wound with gentleness and confidence.

We started Holistic Burnout Solutions to fill the hole in the care teams of those who have been othered, those who don’t have a centralized place to focus on healing without the lens of capitalism, colonization, or an expectation to achieve “Doneness”. We believe everyone deserves to have someone on their care team who will challenge them past their own beliefs to become their best-embodied self, even when it feels like the world is against them every step of the way.



Nicole’s Coaching Process

  • First Steps

    Following our initial Meet and Greet we will schedule an Introductory Session to see if you’re still on board with the process. In that session we will begin breaking down and pinpointing the specific issues you’re experiencing in your world so we can begin addressing them with a small, medium, and large goal framework.

  • Next Steps

    Your small goals are the tangible, visible wins that keep you engaged and motivated to continue making progress towards your larger goals.

    Your large goals are your abstract ideas of self that you hold to remember your “why,” the big things you want to work towards are then broken up into visible milestones, or medium goals.

    Your medium goals are the measurable progress points that create a roadmap to achieving your larger goals. These are the tangible skills, tools and strategies we create specifically for you that integrate into your daily life. We will continue the trial and error/accountability process until you begin meeting some of these larger goals.

    In all of this work we also begin challenging belief systems, incorporate education and have discussions about your value systems and even more to holistically guide you into a safe and secure being.

  • Last Steps

    We will continue the process of addressing issues, setting and adjusting goals, celebrating your small, medium, and large successes, and education process until you feel that it’s time to graduate from our services.

    Given that this is meant to be a space to begin the process of shedding and growing, we advocate for YOU to advocate for yourself in the entire process. Everything is collaborative and nothing is set in stone.

    Feel free to end services at any point or maintain them for as long as you need. This is your journey.

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