What if the fastest way to a calmer home isn’t a new chore chart but a steadier nervous system and a clearer sense of who you are? We sit down with Amy Jones, founder of A Fresh Joy, to unpack a path from burnout to purpose that starts inside and flows out into the daily rhythms that hold a family together. Amy shares her move from a decades-long corporate career to coaching overwhelmed working mums, sparked by anxiety, a supermarket panic attack, and a faith-led nudge she couldn’t ignore.
We break the cycle of “try harder” by starting where stress actually lives: your body’s survival responses. Amy explains why familiar negative thoughts become neural grooves and how short, simple regulation practices make room for better choices. From there, we pivot to identity: when survival mode shrinks your world, you forget what you value and who you’re becoming. Re-anchoring identity (grounded in faith for many) turns pressure into purpose and gives every routine a reason.
Only then do the home systems click. Instead of chasing a perfect pantry, we look at the house as an ecosystem and design for real bottlenecks. Amy’s “socks-and-shoes station” in the kitchen solved morning meltdowns by honouring sensory needs and proximity, not by adding punishment or waking earlier.
You’ll hear a practical, compassionate framework: regulate the nervous system, reclaim identity, then build simple, flexible routines that reduce decisions and share the mental load. Along the way we name the two biggest blockers (shame and the belief that you are the problem) and offer kinder scripts and tiny steps that stack into lasting change.
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