Ep 179. Burnout, Breathwork and Being Guided By Your Intuition, with Shanaye KuntzeEp 179. Burnout, Breathwork and Being Guided By Your Intuition, with Shanaye Kuntze
Behind The Smile with Ash Butterss
Host Ash Butterss sits down with psychic and coach Shanaye Kuntze to talk about extreme burnout, people-pleasing and the cost of constant overachieving. Shanaye shares how breathwork, intuition and spiritual practice helped her rebuild her life and work from the inside out.
57:36•14 Jun 2026
From Burnout to Breathwork: Shanaye Kuntze on Intuition, Spirit Guides and Coming Home to Yourself
Episode Overview
- Burnout often builds over years of high performance, emotional suppression and self-abandonment rather than arriving overnight.
- Breathwork can create powerful shifts in presence, peace and emotional release, opening doors to deeper healing.
- People-pleasing and weak boundaries leave space for energy drainers and can be as destructive as more obvious addictions.
- Letting go of a misaligned path, even one that looks successful on paper, creates room for more aligned opportunities to land.
- Intuition strengthens like a muscle: the more you listen and act on it, the clearer and more reliable it becomes.
“It was a moment of like, I can't keep living like this. If I don't change, nothing is going to change.”
Curious about how others move from burnout to a life that actually feels like their own? This candid chat between host Ash Butterss and guest Shanaye Kuntze is right up that alley. Shanaye, a psychic, healer and mindset coach, opens up about the years she spent overworking in the fitness industry while everyone around her praised her smile, drive and success.
Behind the scenes, she was “mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted,” pushing through 14–16 hour days until her body quite literally shut down and left her bedridden. Ash and Shanaye connect over people-pleasing, perfectionism and that desperate childhood hunger for love and approval that later morphs into overachieving, work addiction and chronic self-abandonment. If you’ve ever been the strong one, the high performer or the caretaker while quietly falling apart, you’ll recognise yourself in their stories.
A turning point comes when a psychic tells Shanaye she needs to try breathwork. One powerful session leaves her with a sense of peace and presence she says she’s never felt before, and becomes the spark for deeper healing and the awakening of her psychic abilities.
From there, she starts hearing clear inner guidance, working with spirit guides and slowly reshaping her business to support women “coming back home to themselves through mind, body, breath, and soul.” They also talk about boundaries, energy drainers, and the difference between work that empties you and work that lights you up, plus Shanaye’s intense facilitator training at Breathless in the Snowy Mountains and her non‑negotiables for staying grounded in recovery from burnout.
If you’ve been giving everything to everyone else and wondering why you feel so empty, this conversation might be the nudge you’ve been waiting for. What would it look like to finally put yourself back on your own list?
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