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Dynamic Balance: Kerisma Vere on Why Sustainable Success Begins With Self-Trust, Not Discipline
If your wellness routine keeps collapsing, the problem might not be your discipline. It might be the version of balance you were sold in the first place. This BizBlend conversation is for the founders, builders, and professionals who keep tipping between all-in mode and falling apart, and quietly wonder why nothing sticks.
Host Sana sits down with holistic wellness coach and author Kerisma Vere to unpack dynamic balance, a sustainable approach to work, wellness, and personal growth that replaces perfectionism with self-trust. Expect honest talk on burnout recovery, the cost of treating workaholism as identity, why work-life harmony beats work-life balance for entrepreneurs, and a teeter-totter metaphor that may quietly change how you think about success.
About the Guest:
Kerisma Vere is a holistic wellness coach, founder of Towards Wellness Coaching, and author of The Light Switch Myth: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Realistic and Sustainable Change. She is the creator of the From Pressure to Path framework and writes about recovery, compassion, and sustainable transformation from lived experience.
Key Takeaways:
- Balance is not a fixed centre to hold steady; it is a teeter-totter you shift with as life moves through different seasons.
- Perfectionism is a failed model. Holistic wellness, mental, emotional, social, physical, financial, spiritual, environmental, cannot be held to that standard without burnout.
- Workaholism often masks avoidance. When one area of life gets all your attention, gently ask what other area is being protected from feeling.
- For entrepreneurs, work-life harmony beats work-life balance. Your personal values and home life can fuel the business instead of competing with it.
- Self-worth built only on doing collapses the moment external metrics disappear. Anchor it deeper, in being, not output.
- Weekly check-ins across each life area, with compassion instead of judgement, surface red flags before they become breakdowns.
Connect With Kerisma Vere:
- Website: https://towardswellness.ca
- Book site (The Light Switch Myth): https://thelightswitchmyth.me
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerisma-vere-a327428/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KerismaVere
- Medium: https://medium.com/@kerismavere
- Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Switch-Myth-Kerisma-Vere/dp/106980620X
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Welcome to BizBlend — Rethinking the Balance We Were Sold
[02:30] What Dynamic Balance Really Means — Kerisma's 2018 Breakdown & Recovery
[08:30] Why Perfectionism Is a Failed Model in Holistic Wellness
[12:00] Workaholism, Avoidance, and the Cost of Neglected Areas
[18:00] Work-Life Harmony for Entrepreneurs — When Passion Becomes Pressure
[24:00] Self-Worth Beyond Doing — Rebuilding After Losing Everything
[30:00] The Teeter-Totter Metaphor — A New Vision of Sustainable Success
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