Live From Capacity: Full Moon Series

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This post reflects aspects of long-term marriage, neurodivergence, PTSD, caregiving, trauma, faith and recovery after infidelity. Find a gentle guide on engaging with this type of post in greater detail in my content notice.
Please engage gently — for yourself and others.

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If You’re Tired, You’re in the Right Place

If you found this work because you’re exhausted, conflicted, numb, burned out, spiritually worn down, or quietly holding more than most people see—you don’t need to catch up or figure anything out first.

This space exists for people who are already responsible, already trying, already carrying a lot.

You are not behind.
You are likely overloaded.

What This Space Is About

This work is rooted in one core truth:

Capacity matters more than cultural expectations

Here, we talk about:
🌙Caregiving without martyrdom
🌙Faith without over-discipline
🌙Marriage and family life without self-erasure
🌙Wellness without perfectionism
🌙Rest without guilt
🌙Endurance with dignity

This is not a place that tells you to “push through,” “try harder,” or “optimize your life.”

It is a place that helps you stop blaming yourself for limits you didn’t choose.

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What This Is Not
Let’s be clear, so your nervous system can relax.

This is not:
🌙A self-improvement program
🌙A healing challenge
🌙A productivity framework
🌙A spiritual performance plan
🌙A “do more” lifestyle

You won’t be asked to:
🌙Journal consistently
🌙Track perfectly
🌙Be vulnerable on demand
🌙Perform insight
🌙Relive trauma to heal it

You are allowed to read quietly.
You are allowed to skip.
You are allowed to take what helps and leave the rest.

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Who This Is For

This space is especially for you if you:
🌙Are a caregiver (in any form)
🌙Live with chronic stress, trauma history, or neurodivergence
🌙Are rebuilding trust, health, faith, or marriage
🌙Feel spiritually sincere but worn down
🌙Are tired of being strong
🌙Feel shame for needing rest

You don’t need a diagnosis or a label to belong here.

If your life requires endurance, you are already qualified.

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How to Use This Work (There Is No “Right” Way)

You can engage with this work in whatever way fits your capacity:

🌙 Read One Thing

Choose one post that feels relieving—not challenging.

🌙 Return Seasonally

Many people come back during:
🌙Winter
🌙Burnout
🌙Crisis
🌙Trauma anniversaries
🌙Major transitions

🌙 Use the Language

You don’t have to do anything.
Sometimes the most helpful part is having words for what you’re experiencing.

🌙 Share Selectively

The partner/family sections exist so you don’t have to explain yourself from scratch.

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A Gentle Orientation: The Moon Series

One of the core resources here is the Live From Capacity Full Moon Series.

Each month offers:
🌙A seasonal reframe
🌙A cultural belief to release
🌙A capacity-honoring truth
🌙Optional, low-demand reflection
🌙Language that protects relationships

You do NOT need to start at the beginning.
You do NOT need to read every month.
You do not need to remember where you left off.

This is NOT a program.
It’s a reference point.

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Trauma-Informed Note (Please Read)

This work is designed for people who are already highly aware.

That means:
🌙Reflection is optional
🌙Insight is not required
🌙Self-awareness is not the goal

If paying attention to your inner world feels overwhelming or unsafe, rest instead.

Nothing here requires you to open yourself up before you feel supported.

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If Faith Is Part of Your Story

This space is:
🌙Faith-safe
🌙Non-coercive
🌙Non-performative

It acknowledges that many people were:
🌙Spiritually over-disciplined instead of cared for
🌙Taught to equate exhaustion with holiness
🌙Shamed for limits

Here, faith is framed as:
🌙Stewardship, not self-abandonment
🌙Rest, not retreat
🌙Honesty, not denial

You will not be told to pray harder to fix what requires care.

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Where to Go Next (Choose One—Or None)

If you want a next step, here are a few low-pressure options:

🌙 Start With a Relief Month

Many readers begin with:
🌙January (Containment)
🌙February (Permission)
🌙December (Rest)

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Explore Fuel Flow

If you’re looking for a capacity-aware approach to nourishment, rhythms, and daily life:

Work With Me

If you need guided support through:
🌙Caregiving burnout
🌙Recovery seasons
🌙Faith fatigue
🌙Rebuilding health or trust

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One Last Thing Before You Go

You don’t need to become someone else to deserve rest.

You don’t need to prove how hard things have been.

You don’t need to “catch up” here.

This space exists because good people are tired—and that deserves care, not correction.

Take what helps.
Leave the rest.

You are allowed to live from capacity.

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WELLNESS THAT WITHSTANDS
Rooted. Resilient. Restored.
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Nicole Burch is a CertifiedTrim Healthy Lifestyle Coach, author, and holistic family life mentor who helps women and families rebuild from the inside out. Through her work, she guides others toward resilience, restoration, and peace—teaching that true healing begins at home. As the owner of Life in the Treehouse, Nicole helps women and families overcome burnout, find food freedom, and create sustainable wellness that lasts. Her work weaves together the practical and the profound—showing that peace is possible even in the busiest, most complicated seasons of life.

Whether she’s helping clients balance blood sugar, restore energy, or reconnect with joy, Nicole’s mission remains the same:
to help women and families live Rooted in Rhythm—anchored in peace, balanced in body, and guided by grace.

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I am celebrating five years of being a Certified Trim Healthy Lifestyle Coach. I have lived an abundance of seasons within just these five years. I was a nursing mom, pregnant multiple times, survived a traumatic pregnancy loss in 2022, lived in survival mode from 2022-2025 while being an ambassador for survivors of sexual assault and facilitating the legal aspects of a criminal trail against the perpetrator for those assaults, almost died due to pulmonary embolism after my eighth child was born in 2023, and somewhere in there lost and gained 80 pounds after identifying binge-eating disorder as a new challenge. I KNOW too well that life slows down for nobody and no situation, and every meal is a new opportunity to be a begin-againer!

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Nicole Burch is a Certified Trim Healthy Mama Lifestyle Coach, independently offering services based on the THM plan. This coach is not an employee or agent of Trim Healthy Mama, LLC. Coaching services are independently managed, and THM is not responsible for results, business practices, or claims made by this coach.