The fine line between achievement and self-abandonment - with Sue Revell

Where are you abandoning yourself in the name of achievement?

It’s a brave question. Especially when achievement has been rewarded, applauded, admired, or quietly used as proof that we are enough.

In this Insights episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m reflecting on my conversation with Averil Price, The Legacy Coach. The interview was hugely thought-provoking and left me musing on a number of themes including success, burnout, recovery, alignment and the courage to live a life that feels true to who we are.

This episode is not about rejecting ambition. Far from it.

Sometimes striving for things teaches us how we grow, serve, protect, recover or create. But when achievement becomes the only way we know how to measure our worth, something starts to suffer.

I explore the fine line between achievement and self-abandonment, the stories that can sit beneath proving and pushing, and why alignment is not about doing less - but actually about living with more truth.

I also reflect on Averil’s beautiful idea of a ceremony of gratitude for still being here, and the thresholds we move through without ever pausing to honour what they cost, changed or revealed.

Because legacy is not only about what we achieve. It’s about how honestly we live, how consciously we choose, and how courageously we return to ourselves.