We Recover Loudly – Personal Recovery and Mental Health Stories · Shell Righini

S3 Episode 02 Merly Kammerling Recovering Loudly … Burnout, Grief, and Boundaries That Heal

·1 hr 4 min·1 clip

Hospitality for me was finally belonging somewhere.

We Recover Loudly hosts Shell and therapeutic coach Marilee Kammerling explore the psychological roots of burnout within hospitality and service industries. Marilee shares her journey from experiencing childhood othering (Filipino immigrant parent) through glamorous retail (Matches, Selfridges) into hospitality, revealing how seeking belonging and validation in industry culture creates vulnerability to exploitation. The discussion links adverse childhood experiences to career choices, intergenerational trauma transmission, and how lack of authentic identity formation accelerates burnout. Marilee's personal account of launching a therapy business while managing postpartum recovery with two children illustrates burnout mechanisms, while therapeutic frameworks offer pathways to recovery and intentional caregiving.

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A blunt look at rescue instincts, early sobriety bravado, and the boundaries that actually help.

Shell and Marilee Campbell keep coming back to the same hard point: burnout changes people, and support has limits. The episode treats recovery and workplace pressure as lived problems, not neat lessons.

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When you keep becoming the emergency contact for everyone else.

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