🎯 The Career Clarity Check-in

"☆☆☆☆☆ 0 stars, would not recommend my job right now" - Sometimes what feels like a work problem turns out to be something else entirely. We created a space to help you slow down and figure it out.

Dr Lizzie Stewart

Clinical Psychologist BA(Psych)(Hons), D.Psych/PHD

🎯 Feeling Lost in Your Career? What If It's Not Just Work?

If you're between 25 and 35 and feeling stuck, burnt out, or quietly wondering if you took the wrong path, you're not alone. That's usually when it happens.

At some point, many of us hit that moment where things just... don't feel right.

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The job that used to excite you now feels heavy. You're considering long term travelling.
You spend more time daydreaming about quitting than actually enjoying your work.
Everyone else seems to be moving forward — getting promoted, starting businesses, finding their "thing." Meanwhile, you're left asking yourself:

"Shouldn’t I have this figured out by now?"

But here’s something we’ve noticed:

Sometimes it’s not just work.

What feels like a career problem can actually be something deeper:
➤ Underlying anxiety or low-level depression.
➤ Burnout that’s been building for years.
➤ Feeling disconnected from your values or identity.
➤ Relationship stress bleeding into work life.
➤ Or just... a general sense of "What am I even doing with my life?"

That’s why we created The Career Clarity Check-In — to help you pause, take stock, and figure out what’s really going on.

Introducing the Career Clarity Check-In

This isn’t another checklist or blog post you’ll skim and forget.
It’s a free, slow-paced, reflective email series designed to help you find clarity, gently and thoughtfully, over time.

Across three emails, sent over three weeks, we’ll guide you through some of the same tools, questions, and insights psychologists use to help people untangle stuckness — whether it’s coming from work, life, or somewhere in between.

The goal?
To give you the space, perspective, and guidance you need to feel clearer and more grounded than where you started.

Why three weeks?

Big questions need breathing room. And they take some home work - sorry.

Real clarity rarely comes from a single moment of insight. It builds slowly, between the cracks of daily life — in the moments when you pause, reflect, and return to the same questions with fresh eyes.

We designed the Check-In to unfold over time:

🔹 Week 1 – We’ll help you work through where you’re feeling stuck and why.
🔹 Week 2 – We’ll introduce new ways of seeing your situation, drawing from the latest research in burnout, purpose, and mental health.
🔹 Week 3 – We’ll guide you to pull the pieces together, reflect on what you’ve noticed, and consider what comes next.

Each email arrives quietly in your inbox — not to overwhelm you, but to nudge you gently back to the conversation you’re having with yourself.

What we’ll explore inside the Check-In:

Over three weeks, we'll share some unexpected ideas about work, purpose, and burnout, like:

💡 Why you might not need a “dream job” — just better problems to solve.
💡 How small choices now quietly shape your future (without you noticing).
💡 Why purpose isn’t something you find — it’s something you build.
💡 Why burnout might be a boundary problem, not a workload problem.
💡 Why clarity often comes after action, not before.

(But we won’t give it all away here — join the Check-In to explore these ideas and see which ones resonate with you.)

What you’ll get:

✅ A calm, thoughtful space to pause and reflect over three weeks
✅ Tools to explore whether work is the problem — or just the surface
✅ Insights from psychologists who specialize in burnout, identity, and life transitions
✅ Permission to stop pushing forward on autopilot and actually check in with yourself
✅ Practical frameworks to help you reconnect with what matters

🔮 Why this works:

By the end of the three weeks, you won’t necessarily have your entire life figured out (who does?). But you will have:
✔️ More clarity on where the tension is really coming from.
✔️ Better questions to guide your next steps.
✔️ Permission to give yourself some grace while you work it out.

And if at any point you want support beyond the Check-In, we can gently point you towards psychologists who specialize in exactly this kind of stuckness — but only if it feels right for you.

Dr Lizzie Stewart

Clinical Psychologist

BA(Psych)(Hons), D.Psych/PHD

Lizzie is a Clinical Psychologist based in Sydney's Inner West who has been seeing children, adolescents and families for the past 10 years.

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