Never Good Enough? Breaking Free from Perfectionism, Pressure, and Burnout
About this Event
It’s Time to Turn Your Light Back On
Never Good Enough? Breaking Free from Perfectionism, Pressure, and Burnout is an interactive half-day workshop designed to help you understand what’s driving your burnout, and give you practical tools to begin changing it.
Led by burnout strategist and speaker Michelle Von Ruden, you'll work through Michelle's six-pillar burnout strategy and examine the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that may be keeping you stuck in a cycle of striving.
This isn't four hours of sitting and listening.
You'll reflect. You'll write. You'll have conversations. You'll challenge some of the expectations you've been carrying.
Most importantly, you'll leave with a personal action plan for what comes next.
Before You Arrive
Your experience begins before the workshop.
After registering, you'll be invited to complete Michelle's From Exhausted to Energized Burnout Quiz.
Bring your results with you. We'll use them as a starting point to go beyond how burned out am I? and begin exploring a much more important question:
Why did I get here, and what needs to change?
The Six Pillars
Throughout the morning, we'll work through six areas that can help you understand your relationship with achievement, pressure, and burnout:
Identity
Who are you when you aren't producing, achieving, helping, or proving?
Perfectionism
When does the pursuit of excellence cross the line into an exhausting need to get everything right?
Burnout Recovery
Learn to recognize what is draining you and identify what you need to begin turning your light back on.
Redefining Success
Examine the definition of success you've been chasing, and decide whether it still deserves to define your life.
Authentic Alignment & Permission
Identify where your priorities, values, boundaries, and everyday life have fallen out of alignment.
Behavioral Shifts
Turn awareness into action by identifying the behaviors and patterns you are ready to change.
You'll Leave With
By noon, you won't simply have pages of notes.
You'll leave with greater clarity around what's contributing to your burnout, practical tools you can use in everyday life, a workbook you can continue working through after the event, and your own Turn Your Light Back On Action Plan.
You'll identify what needs to stop, what needs to start, and the first steps you can take to create meaningful change.
Because progress doesn't require perfection.
One step at a time is still forward.
Your Workshop Experience
Your registration includes:
- Four-hour interactive workshop with Michelle Von Ruden
- Never Good Enough? participant workbook
- Six-pillar burnout strategy
- Pre-workshop burnout quiz
- Guided reflection and interactive exercises
- Personal Turn Your Light Back On Action Plan
- 30-day burnout quiz follow-up
- Coffee, water, and light morning refreshments
Who Is This Workshop For?
This experience is for the person who is tired of:
Feeling like nothing they accomplish is quite enough.
Holding themselves to standards they would never expect from someone else.
Saying yes when they desperately want to say no.
Feeling guilty when they rest.
Measuring their worth by their productivity.
Achieving the goal only to immediately move the finish line.
Looking successful on the outside while feeling exhausted on the inside.
You don't need to wait until everything falls apart to make a change.
About Michelle
Michelle Von Ruden is a burnout strategist, speaker, coach, and founder of Von Ruden Coaching & Consulting.
After experiencing firsthand what can happen when achievement, perfectionism, pressure, and self-worth become tangled together, Michelle now helps high achievers recognize the patterns driving burnout and build healthier definitions of success.
Her message is simple:
Your worth was never meant to be measured by how much you accomplish.
And you don't have to sacrifice yourself to be successful.
Event Details
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Hudson, Wisconsin
Doors open before the workshop for check-in, coffee, light refreshments, and connection.
Please plan to arrive early so we can begin promptly at 8:00 AM.
Are You Ready to Turn Your Light Back On?
You can keep telling yourself you'll slow down after the next deadline, the next project, the next promotion, or the next busy season.
Or you can decide that something needs to change.
Give yourself one morning.
Four hours to step away from everything everyone else needs from you and focus on what you need.
Reserve your seat for Never Good Enough? today.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 133.66 to USD 239.49
