How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Build Empowering Ones

Jenny Hale’s Top Quotes

1️⃣ “Nobody ever died from feeling an emotion.”
2️⃣ “Calm isn’t depression — it’s calm.”
3️⃣ “Workaholics are addicted to their own adrenaline.”
4️⃣ “Safety is the real source of strength.”

⏱️ YouTube Chapters

00:00 — The Drive That Almost Broke Me
Jenny shares her high-achieving early career and the burnout that made her question everything.

07:15 — The Moment I Could Have Chosen Rest
A friend’s rehab stay reveals how deeply work addiction is normalized — and how choice can look invisible.

13:30 — When Success Turns Into Burnout
An “eight-week” contract spirals into 15 months of exhaustion. Jenny learns that doing more isn’t always growth.

19:45 — Fear Behind the Hustle
She traces her relentless drive back to childhood survival wiring — “run or die” as an identity.

26:00 — The Breakdown That Became a Beginning
A business crisis, emotional collapse, and one therapist’s offhand comment begin to unravel decades of repression.

33:00 — Feeling Everything for the First Time
Emotions return “like cataract surgery — suddenly everything in colour.” Jenny learns to regulate instead of suppress.

40:00 — Addicted to Our Own Adrenaline
She reframes workaholism as a chemical dependency — adrenaline as both drive and drug.

46:15 — Teaching Calm as a Skill
Jenny explains how she helps clients replace urgency with regulation and build emotional literacy.

52:30 — Safety Changes Everything
Through deep attunement, she experiences genuine safety for the first time — the body’s true foundation for calm.

57:30 — Rewriting the Rules of Success
Her journey culminates in The Hale Method — redefining performance as nervous-system coherence, not hustle.

The Hidden Addiction of Achievement

Jenny Hale didn’t call herself a workaholic. She called herself effective. The faster she worked, the more people admired her. For years, her identity was built on efficiency — the more she achieved, the safer she felt.
That illusion held until 2005, when her body collapsed. What she once called drive turned out to be adrenaline — a chemical dependency disguised as productivity.

“I thought I was just someone who got things done,” she recalls. “But I was really running from stillness.”

When Burnout Becomes a Mirror

Jenny’s burnout didn’t appear out of nowhere. She had watched a friend enter rehab for stimulant use and wondered, Why do we have to have an addiction before we get to rest?
Two weeks later, she ignored her own warning and took another contract. Fifteen months later, she couldn’t get out of bed.

She describes this time not as failure, but as feedback: “Burnout is the body’s way of telling the truth when the mind refuses to.”

The Comment That Changed Everything

It wasn’t a grand breakthrough that shifted Jenny’s path. It was a casual comment from a psychiatrist about postnatal depression that triggered a cascade of buried memories.

Within days, decades of suppressed emotion surfaced. “It felt like cataract surgery — suddenly everything in colour,” she says.

For the first time since childhood, Jenny could feel. And it was overwhelming.