04/08/2026
Are you surviving... or are you truly living?
It's a question I often ask professionals during coaching conversations.
On paper, everything looks successful.
✔️ A respected career
✔️ Years of experience
✔️ Qualifications
✔️ A busy calendar
But behind closed doors, many quietly admit they feel:
• Exhausted instead of energised.
• Successful but unfulfilled.
• Busy but disconnected from themselves.
• Unsure whether they're living the life they truly want.
For years, we are taught to build a career.
Very few of us are taught how to build a life.
I've spent more than 33 years supporting people through mental health challenges, trauma and life transitions, and one truth continues to stand out:
Success means very little if it costs you your peace, your health or your sense of purpose.
Today, I invite you to pause for just a moment.
Don't answer for anyone else. Answer honestly for yourself.
👉 Are you surviving... or are you truly living?
If you're willing, share one word that describes where you are today.
You might choose:
✨ Thriving
✨ Surviving
✨ Hopeful
✨ Stuck
✨ Curious
✨ Grateful
✨ Ready
Your answer may encourage someone else to realise they are not alone.
"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." — John 10:10
— Jacquie Burgwin-Turner
Faith-Based Transformational Coach | Speaker | Mental Health Professional
Helping professionals move from survival to purpose.
