THE ENERGY EDIT TOOLKIT: 8 Therapist-Designed Handouts to Identify Energy Drains, Set Real Boundaries & Reclaim Your Life
THE ENERGY EDIT TOOLKIT: 8 Therapist-Designed Handouts to Identify Energy Drains, Set Real Boundaries & Reclaim Your Life
You're not lazy. You're leaking.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much — it comes from doing the wrong things, for the wrong reasons, with no clear sense of what it's actually costing you.
You know the feeling. The low-grade depletion that follows you even on good days. The way you say yes and immediately feel the weight of it. The guilt when you try to rest. The mental tab that never fully closes.
This isn't a time management problem. It's an energy allocation problem — and most people never get the tools to address it at the root.
The Energy Edit Toolkit changes that.
You're not lazy. You're leaking.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much — it comes from doing the wrong things, for the wrong reasons, with no clear sense of what it's actually costing you.
You know the feeling. The low-grade depletion that follows you even on good days. The way you say yes and immediately feel the weight of it. The guilt when you try to rest. The mental tab that never fully closes.
This isn't a time management problem. It's an energy allocation problem — and most people never get the tools to address it at the root.
The Energy Edit Toolkit changes that.
What's Inside
Eight therapist-designed handouts — rooted in DBT, shame resilience, and radical acceptance — that walk you through a complete audit of where your energy is going and how to start protecting what matters most.
These aren't generic worksheets. They're the same clinical tools used inside Kyira's private coaching practice and her signature program, Liberated Living — now available as a standalone digital toolkit you can work through at your own pace, return to when life gets loud, and share with people in your life who need them too.
🔵 Control Wheel: An Exercise in Radical Acceptance Stop hemorrhaging energy fighting things you can't control. This foundational DBT tool helps you draw a clear line between what's yours to address and what's costing you energy for no return — the starting point for every other change you want to make. Best for: anyone who feels exhausted by circumstances they can't change
🔵 Rethinking Your Investments: Time, Money & Energy ROI The most powerful handout in this toolkit. Run every commitment in your life through a simple but transformative framework — high drain vs. low drain, high meaning vs. low meaning — and make intentional decisions about what stays, what gets restructured, and what you're finally ready to let go of. Best for: chronic over-committers, people-pleasers, and anyone who feels spread too thin
🔵 Thought Record: Understanding How the Dominoes Fall Your energy drains don't start with circumstances — they start with thoughts. This five-part thought record helps you trace the full chain from triggering event to emotional response to behavior, so you can interrupt the cycle before it costs you. Essential for understanding why certain things drain you so predictably. Best for: anxiety, rumination, shame spirals, and emotional reactivity
🔵 Values Identification: Determining Your Anchor Points When you don't know what you actually value, every decision costs more than it should. This handout helps you get clear on your core values and use them as a filter — so protecting your energy stops feeling selfish and starts feeling necessary. Best for: decision fatigue, lack of direction, and losing yourself in other people's priorities
🔵 ULTIMATE Self-Care Guide (12 pages) Not the bubble baths version. This 12-page guide redefines self-care as the intentional practice of building and protecting your capacity — and gives you a realistic framework for what that actually looks like in a full, busy life. Best for: people who know they need more self-care but don't know what that actually means for them
🔵 Addressing Burnout: Skills & Activities to Help Combat Burnout Grounded in the four pillars of self — thoughts, feelings, actions, and connections — this handout gives you concrete, accessible skills to start addressing burnout not by doing more, but by building in the recovery that makes everything else sustainable. Best for: anyone in or approaching burnout who needs immediate, practical tools
🔵 Five Ways to Say No Without Being Mean or Reactive Five distinct frameworks for saying no across different relationships and contexts — so you stop defaulting to yes out of guilt and start communicating your limits in a way that feels true to who you are. Includes language you can use immediately. Best for: people-pleasers, boundary-avoiders, and anyone who dreads the word "no"
🔵 Combatting Decision Fatigue: Automating, Simplifying & Structuring Your Life Overcommitment doesn't just drain your energy — it drains your ability to make good decisions about your energy. This handout helps you identify where decision fatigue is quietly running the show and gives you practical strategies to simplify and structure your life so the small decisions stop costing big energy. Best for: overwhelm, analysis paralysis, and over-functioning
This toolkit is for you if…
You're exhausted in a way you can't fully explain
You keep saying yes when everything in you wants to say no
You've been told to "just set boundaries" but have no idea how to actually do that
You feel like you're always behind, always doing, and never quite enough
You want to stop running on empty and start living with intention — without overhauling your entire life overnight
How to use it
Work through all eight handouts in sequence as a full self-guided energy audit — it takes most people 2–3 hours spread across a week — or pull individual handouts as you need them. Every piece is designed to be returned to over time, not just completed once.
Want more structure? The Energy Edit Toolkit is the official companion resource to The Energy Edit — a free annual 7-day email challenge that runs every May. Each handout maps directly to a day of the challenge. Make sure you are on my email list and you will be the first to know when sign ups go live!

