3. You're A High Achiever And Secretly Stuck - Here's Why
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
Release Date: 03/24/2025
20. Your Emotional Resilience Checklist
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
Today we’re going through a five-question checklist that will help you assess where you’re emotionally stuck and what you need to actually move the needle towards real inner resilience. In this final episode of Season 1, I’m sharing a simple but powerful framework to help you get clear on what’s working, what’s missing, and what needs to shift next on your path to emotional resilience. If you have any questions about the content or want to get in touch, you are always welcome to DM me on Linked In here: Disclaimer: The Inner Climb Podcast with Dr. Maria Bargeman and all...
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19. Getting Off The Emotional Struggle Bus
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
Here are the five key pieces you need for real emotional resilience so you can stop spinning in circles and start making meaningful progress on your inner climb. This episode maps out Season 1’s core framework, the 5Rs, and how to make sure you’ve got the right guide, the right route, the right gear, the right pacing, and the right training for your emotional terrain. Because you don’t need more tools. You need the right ones that actually work for you. With the 5 Rs, you can get off the emotional struggle bus and onto the path of inner resilience and emotional mastery. If you have any...
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18. How To Hold Space For Hard Emotions (Without Shutting Down Or Spiraling)
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It’s one thing to feel your feelings. It’s another to hold them in a way that feels grounded and safe. In today’s episode, we’re going to practice one of the most important skills of emotional regulation — how to recognize what you’re feeling and build a safe emotional container around it. This is what lets you process without getting swept away or shutting down. In the last episode, I outlined a process for emotional regulation using what I call the GROUND tool. Today, you’ll get a chance to practice it with me. Whether you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed or just want...
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17. How To Become Emotionally Flexible And Strong
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Emotional strength isn’t about being stoic or tough. It’s about becoming emotionally nimble. In this episode, you’ll learn how to build out and train emotional ‘flexibility’, which is where your emotional strength really lies. Learning how to ride the wave of hard emotions when they surface because shutting down feelings to power through doesn’t actually serve us well in the long run. Discover the 6-step framework called GROUND that will teach how you can become emotionally flexible so that you can feel your feelings without falling apart. If you have any questions about the...
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16. Assessing + Resetting Your Emotional Posture
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Most of the time we’re running on auto-pilot. But understanding our emotional ‘pacing’ needs so we can stay within capacity is how we start to set ourselves up for success with emotional resilience. In today’s episode, we’re going to do a guided exercise together that you can use regularly to briefly hit pause and see what your emotional gauge is - green, yellow or red, and how you can adjust accordingly to get anchored no matter what’s happening. If you have any questions about the content or want to get in touch, you are always welcome to DM me on Linked In here: ...
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15. Proper Pacing For Your Emotional Fitness Level
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
In this episode, we explore the art of emotional pacing plus the importance of flexible pacing - knowing when to slow down your inner climb and when to speed it up. When to push and when to pull back. Discover how to assess your current pacing capacity using what I call your Emotional Vital Signs — plus four essential factors that influence your pacing: Your life load Your recovery practices Your support structure And your physical fuel tank Having your emotional dashboard set-up and understanding where you’re at (green, yellow or red) in each of the four pacing categories...
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14. Customizing Your Emotional Tools (Gear) So They Actually WORK For You
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
Are you trying to use someone else’s emotional tools? The reason why generic strategies often don’t work is because they aren’t customized to fit us properly. Customization is key for inner work. In this short episode, I’ll walk you through 3 simple ways to test whether your emotional ‘gear’ is actually supporting you — or actually derailing you. Because the journey towards mastering your emotions isn’t about having more tools. It’s about having the right ones that actually work for you. You’ll walk away with a simple way to personalize your: Emotional...
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13. You’re Not Failing, You’re Under-Equipped: Choose The Right Emotional Gear
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
You’re not emotionally failing — you’re under-equipped for the emotional terrain you’re trying to navigate. In this episode, we’ll unpack what I call your emotional gear — the tools, practices, and resources that support you on your climb toward emotional mastery. We’ll explore why so many high-achieving women end up relying on strategies that aren’t actually a good fit, and how to start building a gear pack that truly works for you — especially when emotions run high. Because when your gear fits you properly, the climb is much more manageable. If you have any questions about...
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12. The Emotional Map That Actually Works (Because It’s Custom-Built for You)
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
Here’s an important truth that’s often overlooked: most emotional resilience strategies fail because they aren’t custom-built for your inner world. So how do you build out your own customized map that actually fits your emotional landscape? It all starts with finding the right entry point. The journey towards emotional mastery tends to follow three main routes - top-down, bottom-up and inside out. We can reframe the three approaches as thinking, feeling and being. What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you being? Each of these questions opens the door to a specific...
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11. The Only Route To Real Emotional Mastery - The One That’s Right For You (plus how to find it)
The Inner Climb with Dr. Maria Bargeman
If you’ve tried all.the.things to better regulate your emotional world and nothing’s really moved the needle, this episode is for you! Because here’s the thing - just like we need physical training plans that match our body type and current fitness level, we also need an inner fitness plan that’s tailored to our specific emotional landscape. And if you’re still stuck despite all the work, it’s probably because you are following a map that wasn’t designed for your specific emotional terrain. In this episode, I’m gonna walk you through how to make sure your emotional...
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In this episode, we’ll unpack why our biggest strength as high-performing women is often also our biggest challenge in our emotional health.
Learn how high achievers have often developed a binary operating system and how this impacts our emotional health.
Discover why a lot of self-care strategies don’t really work well for high-achieving women.
And you’ll also learn how emotional ‘injuries’ tend to show up plus uncover the key ingredient to developing an effective emotional ‘fitness’ plan.
If you have any questions about the content or want to get in touch, you are always welcome to DM me on my social media channels.
You can find me on Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-bargeman/
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