We've all been sold a lie that rest is earned.
That pause means weakness.
That stopping is quitting.
What if we decided together that strategic stopping is the most powerful thing we can do?
Who's in?

Your body knows what you've been carrying.
It knows where the exhaustion lives. The Exhaustion Map is a guided body scan + art practice that helps you witness where you're holding exhaustion, tension, and contraction in your body.
Human Design reveals the energetic blueprint you were born with—how you're designed to make decisions, where your energy flows, and where you're most vulnerable to depletion.
Most women leaders burn out because they're operating against their design—forcing strategies that work for others but drain them.
When you understand your Human Design, you can see:
Get your free Human Design chart here and begin to lead from your design—not someone else's blueprint.


After 20 years in educational leadership and navigating a life filled with adventures, stressors, and everything in between, I've learned a few things about living a sustainable life on the other side of exhaustion and burnout. Over the years, I have learned something crucial: The burnout epidemic isn't about a lack of resilience.

It's about fundamentally broken systems that profit from exhaustion.
I am done being polite about it.
Most burnout advice treats exhaustion like a personal failure. My work opens you up to the information your body is giving you and helps you decode what it's actually saying.

In our work together, I bring big, bold energy to deep transformation work. I believe in cultivated silence AND disruptive truth. I practice what I teach - which means I have learned through lived experience what happens when we ignore our body's wisdom, and what becomes possible when we finally listen.
This work is not widely known. It's not advertised. It's offered only to those who are called.
As a curandera, carrying practices passed down through my Mexican Indigenous lineage. This work includes limpias (energetic cleansing), pláticas (sacred conversation), prayer, mantra, tarot, and intuitive reading.
This is medicine for those ready to honor their ancestors, heal ancestral wounds, and reclaim the gifts living in their lineage.
Sessions are held in person or virtually. By invitation or inquiry only.
If this calls to you, reach out at patricia@patriciarundblade.com


You've been running on empty. Forcing your way through alone or giving yourself away. Your body is asking you to pause.
The Restoration is a 6-week container where you return to your body, restore your life force, and release what's no longer yours to carry.
As a consultant with Educational Organizations, I work with school districts on standardized assessment training using the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA-3) and the Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-4) and systems transformation - bringing two decades of expertise to educational institutions ready to move special education teachers beyond burnout culture. Email me for more details: patricia@patriciarundblade.com

Burned & Reborn: 10 part series of Exhaustion & Emergence
Burned & Reborn. isn't another productivity hack or self-care checklist. This is the private podcast for people who've hit the wall and are finally ready to listen to what it's trying to tell them. The episodes in this podcast take you through my story of complete burnout, life debilitating exhaustion to the point of wanting to commit myself, and the tools and practices that brought me back to my center, my core self and living a sustainable life free of burnout.
One price. Lifetime subscription.

Patricia doesn't deliver tepid wellness advice or surface-level self-care tips. She brings two decades of leadership experience, a bankruptcy story, and bold truth-telling about the systems that create burnout in the first place. Your audience will leave with practical tools they can use immediately AND permission to stop performing resilience they don't feel - which means higher retention, better performance, and teams that actually want to show up. She's the speaker for organizations ready to have honest conversations about sustainable success instead of perpetuating burnout culture.
Why high-achieving women need to unlearn hustle culture to reclaim sustainable power
Understanding your unique energy design to prevent burnout before it happens
How broken systems profit from exhaustion and what we can do about it
The burnout crisis isn't a personal failure problem - it's a systemic design flaw that profits from your exhaustion. In this talk, Patricia exposes how traditional productivity culture keeps high-achievers trapped in unsustainable patterns and offers a radically different framework for reclaiming your energy and power.
For women over 40 who've been conditioned to equate worth with productivity, strategic rest feels like giving up. Patricia dismantles the hustle culture mythology and teaches audiences how to recognize rest as the most powerful leadership move they can make - backed by energy design principles and real-world transformation stories.
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