Overcoming Burnout: The Extraordinary Transition from Attorney to Energy Healer

Are you ready to let go of burnout and awaken your energy?

Join us for an inspiring conversation with  Tracy M. Inscore, Esq. , an attorney turned energy healer.

Tracy shares her transformative journey from the high-pressure world of law to the holistic realm of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and energy healing.

She opens up about her unique childhood within a doomsday cult and how this has shaped her approach to healing and self-perception.

We also delve into the power and potential of EFT, a practice rooted in traditional Chinese Medicine, proven to help with anxiety, PTSD, and more. Tracy sheds light on how to engage the body, nervous system, and subconscious mind to process emotions effectively.

We explore the often overlooked impact of family influences and subconscious programming on unique burnout archetypes. Tracy also shares her mission through her work with Bar and Beyond, using her experiences to help others avoid burnout and foster a healthier work-life balance.

Get ready to hear her advice on preventing burnout, establishing a healthier work-life balance, and tapping into your innate healing power.

So buckle up for this enlightening episode with Tracy M. Inscore, Esq.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:48

Hello everyone, welcome to their spiritual spotlight series. Today I am joined by Tracy N Score. She is an attorney turned energy healer, specializing in helping other lawyers and high stress professionals recovering from burnout. She is also a certified emotional freedom technique tapping practitioner, which is quite amazing that you do that, tracy. Thank you so much for coming to the spiritual spotlight series.

Speaker 2: 1:12

Thank you for having me, Rachel. I'm so excited to be here.

Speaker 1: 1:14

You too. I love people that do EFT. I think it's such a transformative modality that I think a lot of people aren't quite aware of. But let me ask you this question your transition from attorney to energy healer is nothing short of extraordinary. Can you maybe share what catalyzed monumental shift in your career?

Speaker 2: 1:40

Sure, I do still practice law part-time, in addition to working in my practice, but basically I felt compelled down this path because of my own burnout. Probably about just five years into practicing law I really hit a wall. I was severely depressed, anxious, binge drinking. No one knew how much I was struggling. On the outside I looked like it. I had it all together. I was a top performer and represented one of the largest companies in the world and outwardly was thriving. Then I felt like a total imposter too, because my outer reality was so different from my inner world. After about five years I just left full-time practice, took a six-figure pay cut as a result and went in-house. I was a law professor for a while as well, continued to practice part-time. I was even a fitness instructor.

Speaker 2: 2:46

What I learned was that burnout is never really about the job, because I managed to burn out doing all those other more fun things too. I thought it was the full-time law practice that was the problem. It wasn't I was the problem. It was the energy that I brought into anything that I did. My marriage relationships didn't matter what it was. I would overperform, overfunction. It really was a pattern within me. The burnout was just a symptom of these much deeper issues that started off on a long path, a long healing path, of addressing those. I discovered EFT was blown away at how effective it was and just knew that I needed to bring this to fellow lawyers especially.

Speaker 1: 3:38

I find it very interesting that it sounds like you were a high-functioning professional but, like you said, you were struggling internally. Did you have a moment where you're like and then you still work part-time as a lawyer? Did you have a moment where you're like this isn't working anymore?

Speaker 2: 3:55

Yeah, I and I felt like something was wrong with me. I would look around and think, like this seems to be coming so easily to everyone else. Maybe this just wasn't the right career path for me, maybe I just can't cut it as a lawyer, and so I definitely did sort of blame my choice of profession at the time. But I've come to find out the job really wasn't the issue. It was a lot of, like I said, you know, deeper inner stuff that I needed to work on.

Speaker 1: 4:29

And I like the fact that you, you recognize that it wasn't the job. Like you know, right now I'm registered nurse, I manage a doctor's office and even though it's a high stress job, I know that my stress has come from within, like, what are the stories that I tell myself? What is the false narrative that I have? What is the energy like? On the way home today, even I was like, okay, gotta cleanse my energy. This was not the best day, like you know, and I really like the way, because sometimes I do think it's in my job that's burning me out. But I like the fact that you're like no, it's internal things that you need to look at and address, you know, as a human, to kind of help you step forward in your life. I like that you put it that way. It's really, it's a refreshing perspective.

Speaker 2: 5:13

Well, thank you, yeah, and you know that's not to minimize that where we spend most of our waking hours in our job of course can affect us and of course certain jobs are inherently more stressful. But if it's not working for you for any period of time, you have to ask okay, why am I still here then? What hidden payoff am I getting from this? Or how, why am I stuck in this pattern? And then, once we, you know, sort of work through those deeper issues, you can make a decision whether to stay or go with clarity, rather than it being a knee-jerk reaction of just I cannot take it one more day, we don't want to leave a job from that energy because we'll just carry those same problems with us into the next role, into the next position 100%, and it's also not even like with your job.

Speaker 1: 6:05

It's also part of relationships and family and everything you know what we carry into. That's it's interesting. So one aspect of your journey that really stands out in your early life is being raised in a religious cult until you were 10 years old. How was that unique upbringing influence your approach to healing in your career?

Speaker 2: 6:25

Oh it, completely so. Yeah, until I was about the age of 10, we were part of a doomsday cult for a lack of a better term very fear-based, high-control religion. I remember being told like meditation, for example, not not okay being told that you should never let your mind go blank for even one second because the devil could take it over. Stuff like that right. Like being taught that you are not even safe in your own mind, constantly hearing about you know the end of days and rapture and the end of the world and all that. You know stressful for a kid. They promoted really harsh corporal punishment for kids, at one point even passing out like wooden paddles at the services to be used on the kids, and harsh.

Speaker 2: 7:21

My dad had kind of a temper, so that wasn't a good combo because he was then able to sort of take his frustrations out on me in the name of well, the church says that this is what I should be doing.

Speaker 2: 7:33

So I was probably well into my 30s before I realized just the toll that that took on my nervous system and how that had me in a constant state of hypervigilance and fight or flight really, and so in a way, I'm grateful for that experience and that it taught me to question everything, made me very sensitive and perceptive to any sort of like mind control or manipulation tactics, which has served me well, not just as a lawyer, but over the past few years just in society in general.

Speaker 2: 8:12

So true Like to be aware of fear propaganda, and so I can appreciate it for that, but really it's just caused me in my own work. Now I almost I don't really like to use the term healer because that's implying that the power is outside of us, when really everything we need is within us, and I think that's one of the greatest lies that we've been taught is that love is outside of us, or God or our power is something outside of us, when really I see myself more of a teacher helping people to access their own power, their own healing. And the term energy healing it's kind of funny, it's like kind of redundant if you think about it, because everything's energy right, so it's just healing.

Speaker 1: 9:08

Yeah, it is interesting, and I mean I myself I am certified in a couple of different energy healing modalities. But you're 100% correct that we're just facilitators helping people. But ultimately you have to choose yourself whether or not you really wanna step forward and heal yourself. And 100% you are so correct about everything is within. And it's interesting that up until the age of 10, like to be raised in that fear type of environment and to be able to break through that, then become a lawyer and then now what you do, like what a path Like that's very fascinating. Like and it's amazing that you're positive. You know what I mean Like you could have completely done something so different. Sorry, I'm having a moment.

Speaker 2: 10:01

Yeah, no, if you had met me eight years ago, I mean, I was a very different person, and it's so interesting to me how we tend to recreate our childhood experiences until we've fully processed and healed them. And so, because of that upbringing and I was also an only child and then my parents got divorced, so I had to navigate a lot just on my own, and academic achievement was the one thing that I could rely on Don't surprise me.

Speaker 2: 10:31

Well, I'm surprised my cat's not in here. That's fine. It was a way that I could make sure I got my needs met, a way to make sure that no one was upset with me, to keep people happy with me. So really, set was like the perfect storm for burnout later in life. And yeah, so it's just those you know.

Speaker 1: 10:55

Yeah, that's a lot. So let me ask you this so you specialize in helping lawyers and high stress professionals. What do you think makes these professions particularly vulnerable to burnout?

Speaker 2: 11:08

Yeah, I've noticed. You know not to fall into lawyer stereotypes because obviously we're all unique individuals, yeah, but we tend to have certain personality traits in common, that overachiever type A, super ambitious, and those are all really great qualities to have. That's what you want in your lawyer, right? Absolutely yeah, to advocate for you and to be on the ball. And I think because we're required to be so analytical, so in our heads it really can cause that mind-body disconnect, like I remember the first time a therapist asked me well, like where do you feel that emotion within your body? And I just kind of looked at her like my emotions are in my head, like what do you mean? Where do I feel?

Speaker 1: 12:02

And you had to learn how to really feel into your body. I did.

Speaker 2: 12:07

Yeah, you know, for a lot of us I think we learn how to turn off our own bodily cues. We learn to, kind of, because we have to sort of separate our own personal feelings a lot of times from our, our clients position or the cause of the case we're working on. We may not, we have to, we might have to fight for positions we don't necessarily agree with.

Speaker 1: 12:31

Yeah, and so we it's almost like you disassociate Definitely.

Speaker 2: 12:36

Yeah, there's definitely an element of that.

Speaker 1: 12:39

That's interesting. Wow, I'm having a moment with you today. I mean it's interesting to like think about it. But you're right, you almost have to like take yourself out of your body to be present with your client and then to have to pull yourself back into your body, feel into it truly, like you know, like maybe in peace or you know to meditate. I wonder, like when you were first kind of transitioning your path a little bit, how was that like shift in your, your mind and in your body?

Speaker 2: 13:13

It definitely took a long time, I would. I started by just meditating and could not quiet my thoughts, and so I listened to guided meditations, and then I would just fall asleep.

Speaker 2: 13:27

And I realized now yeah, you know, I realized now that I was still getting a benefit from it, and every time I at least caught myself slipping back into those thoughts that that it was working. That's the whole point of meditation. Right, but it really wasn't until I discovered EFT. I'm embarrassed to say that I heard about it probably two years before I tried it because I thought, oh, that's just too good to be true, or, like I, just I just dismissed it. And finally, one day I tried it, just watching a YouTube video, and was just blown away. And so that over the past couple of years, has been the biggest thing to really, yeah, help me get back into my body and out of my head, out of my own way.

Speaker 1: 14:19

That is perfect. So let me ask you this Can you share an example of how the emotional freedom techniques tapping helps in the nervous system regulation and subconscious reprogramming?

Speaker 2: 14:31

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Well, get ready for me to nerd out, because I love this stuff.

Speaker 2: 14:38

So EFT involves tapping on certain meridian points in a specific sequence, while we focus on a particular memory or problem. So it's based in traditional Chinese medicine and it centers around that, that core premise, that everything is energy, that all negative emotion and physical issues too, are caused by energy blockages within the body. And so you know you may have heard the saying like our issues are stored in our tissues, or our biography becomes our biology. You know, the body keeps the score. It's kind of like the micro level of the acoustic records, right, just for this life experience. So true.

Speaker 2: 15:20

And so the meridian system is like an energetic highway running through the body, and tapping allows us to like restore the proper flow of traffic to that highway.

Speaker 2: 15:34

And so, really, traditional Chinese medicine and the practice of acupuncture were way ahead of their time thousands of years ago in identifying the meridian system which really corresponds to the nervous system as we know it or as we're really just beginning to fully understand in modern Western medicine. And so most of us are familiar with that meridian system because of acupuncture, which involves placing needles at certain points along the meridians. There's like 12 main meridians. Each one corresponds to a specific part of the body. And so EFT has been clinically proven effective in treating anxiety, ptsd, and when we tap it actually sends calming signals to the amygdala in the brain, which calms the nervous system and gets us out of that chronic fight or flight state. And so this is so important because, in terms of the communications between our brain and our body, about 80% is going from our body to our brain and only about 20% is going from our brain to our body. And so and likewise you may have heard that around 90% of our brain activity is subconscious- yes.

Speaker 2: 16:50

So, and our subconscious mind is constantly taking direction from our nervous system as far as what feels safe.

Speaker 2: 16:58

So that's why we can say all of the positive affirmations and do traditional talk therapy and think we've moved on from a situation or trauma and yet still be stuck, because knowing something and feeling something are two very different things. So if the body, if the body never gets the message that it's safe, then it's going to be reactivated every time that thing comes up. Right, we've all felt that emotional charge that comes up when we think about something that really hurt us or that, you know, fear. So you know, instead of exerting all this energy to address the cognitive or the 10 to 20%, when we direct our energy to that 80 to 90%, where the root causes, issues actually are, that's where we start seeing the lasting change. We engage the body, the nervous system and the subconscious mind while we, while we're sending these signals of safety throughout the body, which is basically what the tapping is doing, that allows us to actually process our emotions and to truly process those past experiences.

Speaker 1: 18:06

And also, like you're saying, to pull it out of the cellular tissue of your body and then, when you pull it out, it also does it help you to not have to have the same emotional reaction if something like that were to happen again.

Speaker 2: 18:22

Oh, exactly because it's sort of like closing an open wound, that super painful anytime you touched it. So we kind of just deactivate it, so it's not like you forget, but it's just not that pain point anymore.

Speaker 1: 18:40

It was. That's very powerful. Like you hear about EFT and, like you said, you learned about it two years prior before you started doing it. It's it is not it's not a hard practice like to tap, you know what I mean. Like I think the scripting can be difficult. That's where I've always gotten stuck, but it's so interesting that you know like no, this helps release the issues from the tissues and then for you to really feel more empowered and then to not have the same like, oh, like you know, emotional reaction to a situation that truly empowers you to move forward in your life, exactly, exactly. So let me ask you this so your work is particularly impactful because you delve into family of origin, influences and subconscious programming. Could you maybe give us a glimpse of what decoding unique burnout archetype pattern looks like?

Speaker 2: 19:36

Oh, yes, this is my favorite thing. So, yes, yeah. So when we talk about these, these sort of deeper issues, this might include things like a lack of alignment and which can be draining in itself, like if you're pretending to be someone you're not, or if you're living in conflict with your core values or your priorities. It could be subconscious beliefs that you learned in your family around money or how hard you have to work, that things aren't allowed to be easy. So just you know, using my own example, going back to what I said about sort of recreating those childhood experiences, it's kind of funny how I went from a religious upbringing with a ton of rules, really high consequences, or, you know, high stakes, sort of severe consequences, if you will and kind of recreated that, and going into the legal profession where again, lots of laws to follow, lots of rules, really high stakes.

Speaker 2: 20:47

Yeah, for other people, maybe in their family of origin they had to be a caretaker from a really young age or they were like a parentified child and they, their burnout pattern, might revolve around caregiving and caretaking and the early messages that that's how they Earned their, their worth and value within the family.

Speaker 2: 21:14

And so when I'm working with a client, what we really focus on is the feeling. So we'll take whatever's bothering them the most. Let's say it's a really critical or micromanaging boss. That's the issue they come in. They're presenting with right. We really identify the feeling and then we try to trace that back to when was the first time you remembered feeling that way, and 9 like 9 times out of 10 it will relate to usually apparent figure, sometimes another you know significant authority figure from childhood who made them feel like I can't do anything right, or and once it's just so cool to see. Once they Realize that and we're able to clear that childhood stuff, not only does the boss not bother them as much, but because you know, you know how this stuff works, the boss will actually start responding differently because they're.

Speaker 2: 22:11

Their energy has changed, so that's 100% correct.

Speaker 1: 22:16

Like it is interesting, as soon as you shift the energy, anyone that you're around is going to meet you where you're at, and it's almost like you know. We talk about being a this is a little bit off topic like having an attitude of gratitude and when you raise your vibration to be more grateful for things and more things open up to come to you in your life, like that's it's universal law.

Speaker 2: 22:39

Yeah, it's as within, so without, and it's. It's not woo-woo, it's actually physics, 100% like, forget spirituality, like it's.

Speaker 1: 22:48

It's almost like you know, when you see people in victim mindsets oh, my life is so terrible, oh, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, come on, like you're gonna attract those things from the Universal law, like you just said. If you're putting it out, well, guess what you're gonna get back. You just sit there like guys, guys. So let me ask you this so your, you still practice law part-time while focusing on healing? How do you manage to balance these contrasting roles and do you find that one complements the other?

Speaker 2: 23:19

Oh, yeah, that's a that's a really good question. So, first of all, I use EFT myself on myself and I meet with a practitioner every week. We trade sessions to Because this you know, starting a business and still practicing it is demanding, so I have to practice what I preach. But I'm doing this with my clients. Like I, I do this to prevent my own burnout tendencies that that could come back up if I'm not careful. They definitely do compliment each other. I think that still practicing allows me to better relate to my attorney clients because they know that I'm still Doing this day in and day out, just as they are, and I definitely think, conversely, it's made me a much more empathic and Sensitive and intuitive attorney because I've been able to access those parts of myself a lot more and bring that into my work. And the response from my colleagues has just been overwhelming with their support and their interest in this and and wanting help and wanting to To use this and to try it.

Speaker 1: 24:33

That's amazing. So let me ask you this I know that you do one-on-one Clients and you also have a new program that's coming out. Can you tell the listeners about all of the amazing stuff you have coming, or it can do now?

Speaker 2: 24:47

Of course, yes, so I would love to work with you, and so if you're and I don't just work with lawyers, Anyone honestly, Anyone dealing with burnout I offer free burnout strategy sessions and you can schedule that on my website, which is tapoutburnoutcom.

Speaker 2: 25:04

And specifically for law students, I realized that that has been an overlooked area of when attorney burnout actually starts. It doesn't start after five or 10 years of practice. The seeds are really planted in law school, and so I not only offer discounted rates for any law student, but I have a new program. I have a new program called Bar and Beyond which focuses on the months leading up to the bar exam and up through the first few months of practice and getting those bar exam results, because that six month period is one of the most intense and stressful times, and I find that if we don't address the stress then it can just kind of bleed over into the rest of our professional life. So I really want to help give a good foundation and teach these skills early on so that people can use this throughout their career.

Speaker 1: 26:02

I love that title Bar and Beyond. That's amazing. I love the fact that you're targeting students because you're right. I think it is probably a mispopulation and it's a misopportunity to maybe help people that can be amazing lawyers, that maybe give up the profession because they get burnt out. That's phenomenal. So, again, I love your website. Anyone that's interested in checking out Tracy, it's tap out burnoutcom. I'm looking at it. I'm like I love this website. So, tracy, thank you so so much for coming on the Spiritual Spotlight series. It was a pleasure to talk with you today. Thank you, rachel.