Managing Your Load: Leading, Serving, and Deeply Caring

If you are someone who leads and serves with heart, you are likely carrying more than most people realize.

Ambitious, values-driven leaders often neglect their own care—not because they don’t know better, but because the needs around them feel urgent and unrelenting. Over time, this takes a toll.

Understanding Your Allostatic Load

Allostatic load is the cumulative impact of stress—professional demands, caregiving, community responsibilities, and the emotional weight of living in a complex world.

It’s rarely one thing that causes exhaustion. It’s the aggregation.

Like a pot of soup slowly filling on the stove, we keep adding ingredients—until one final addition causes it to overflow. The result is burnout, disconnection, or a quiet sense of depletion that’s hard to name.

A Different Way Forward

Our retreats are designed for caring achievers—people who serve others and want to do so sustainably.

We create intentional space to:

  • Pause and reflect

  • Assess both stressors and strengths

  • Reconnect with your temperament, values, and inner resources

  • Restore rituals and practices that genuinely nourish you

This work goes beyond coping. It supports you in becoming more grounded, present, and resilient—so you can continue leading and serving without sacrificing yourself in the process.

Upcoming Retreats

A Fuller Cup™ (In-Person)
📅 February 21
📍 Trinity Retreat Center, West Cornwall, Connecticut
🕘 9:00am – 4:00pm ET
👉 Reserve Your Spot

Seasons of Need: Regenerating Ourselves and Our Planet™ (Virtual)
📅 February 28 & March 1
💻 Live via Zoom
🎟 Early registration discount available with code NEED26
👉 Reserve Your Spot

Seasons of Need: Regenerating Ourselves and Our Planet™ (In-Person)
📅 June 5–7
📍 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
🔔 Registration opening soon

This Work Is Essential

If you lead, serve, and deeply care, tending to your own sustainability is not a luxury. It is a responsibility—to yourself and to those you serve.

We invite you to join us.

 

Suze Shaner-Brodax is an executive coach and leadership & organization effectiveness consultant. She is also an Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister and teaches yoga and meditation – tools to keep one sane in uncertain times. She helps professionals step up to their fullest leadership, life and growth potential. At times this means getting out of their own way in getting important stuff accomplished. www.sagelead.com.

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Welcome to 2026 – The Year of Collective Care: Retreat Opportunities!