Hey, Uprooted Fam 👋🏾 thank you for tuning into ‘Uproot Your Thoughts’ on the Uprooted Network. This is the segment where we examine our lives, thoughts, and trauma as we build the bridge to the lives we want to live. Because we often form our beliefs and thoughts from what we see and hear this space focuses on pulling out the negative and rerooting ourselves in positivity. In today’s episode Hanna, or Rutha as the fam calls her, dives into a deep conversation with the lovely Bilen. As her friends know her, Len, is a behavioral therapist by day working with #autistic children and a passionate mental health advocate in her #Tigrayan # EastAfrican communities. In this episode, they dived deep into where our drive for success can lead us to burnout, the rocky road it is finding out what your passion about and then going after it. There were so many gems on how to navigate parental relationships as #firstgen kids communicating across languages and cultures. Let us know what part spoke to you in the comments ❤️Follow & Support BilenIG: https://www.instagram.com/lennn_bbFollow & Support UprootedMerch: https://uprooted-network.myshopify.com/Website: www.uprootednetwork.comLinktree: https://linktr.ee/uprootednetworkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/uprooted.network/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uprootednetworkSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0b1BVM7nFPZlqdnJMaKMO0Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-uprooted-podcast/id1533777465?uo=4 Timestamps: 2:58 Bilen’s introduction 6:00 checking in with Bilen to see how her heart is and what she’s giving herself grace on 10:15 Bilen shares how she started to become okay with not completing tasks as expected/in a fast manner 15:30 discussing causes of burnout 20:00 we share examples of times we realized burnout was physically affecting us 25:40 using different “tools” for different reasons and seasons 32:10 discussing the extra push for education and success that comes from our parents 38:00 journey of our families immigrating to a new country and what that looked like 45:40 common addiction of ‘boon’/coffee in our households 47:15 having to show up for ourselves first before others 51:53 Hanna shares her experience doing grad school with no breaks, experiencing her first #anxietyattack 55:18 how the Uprooted Network came to life 57:50 importance of an occasional change of environment 1:04:40 Bilen closes with what seeds she’d like to plant for herself and what seeds she’d like to leave behind