Thank you for this article. I have experienced burnout more than once in my 15-year current job at sales. In order to deal with the emotional and physical stress of being burned out, I had to take two different leaves from work for 1.5 years each. During those times I knew I had to not only physically, but mentally rest. What really helped me was saying "No" more often (especially to myself trying to cram every moment of the day); and instead, gave myself permission to take naps when I was tired, and just rest. Another saving grace was me discovering my love for hiking, and connecting with nature many times throughout the week. Returning to being very mindful of what I was doing, and taking extra gentle care of myself helped volumes.
I took last week totally off from the studio because I was worn out from dealing with this persistent vertigo. The ENT told me that I probably would not find the answer in medicine, and I agree after seeing that he did not do any investigation of what my symptoms might mean. One reason is because the poor doctors are not allowed to spend much time at all with any one patient and some of us have very weird things that would need lots of investigation for which there is not time. So, I have decided to go the TCM who was helping me a few years ago with herbs and other things. The big problem is money, and I was not able to continue with him even though I was working then. Hubby has agreed to help with payments and that will take some stress off my shoulders as well. I am tired of not walking well or safely and I want some sort of resolution! It is a burnout of sorts; in that I am tired of trying to live a sort of normal life around these symptoms! I will keep you posted, Sandra! <3
Hey Sandra..I glad you found a calm in the storm....my sister is in such a storm...and I got a blast of it last night...she has boundaries issues at wrk & keeps taking on more & more ... on top of starving herself so she can get into all her skinny skirts she wore when she was like 20... she is spinning out of control...and won`t listen to anyone . I wanted to lash out back to her...but I thought I don`t need to take this personally...she`s just frustrated...glad I didn`t..otherwise it would have been me not sleeping...but other than just listen,...I don`t know what else to do.. it`s like watching a car accident in slow motion
Yeah I'm feeling ya. Health burnout here too. Too much stress due to two extra chronic diagnosis recently added on. Mindfulness/meditation is my great balancer/equalizer when pulled up into the mind. So want to do more but the body says NO. I have learnt abeit slowly to listen to it. And to know that in listening to it is compassionate self care. Go gently Sandra.
I suppose there can be secondary casualties of burnout ...like sister`s that get hammered for just
listening & trying to help ...sorry Sandra ..I`ve lost all sympathy for her now...I can`t relate..sadder yet it`s hurting me more than her ..cause we haven`t talked..we`re piss poor at talking..screaming OK ... talking... forget it : (((
I don’t have all of the answers, but I do know that our bodies need recovery each day in order to replenish our spoons. I teach people to do this via ‘Active stress management’ which I briefly wrote about last year in this post (and write about often over on my Substack): https://humansleading.substack.com/p/getting-to-ok
Thank you for this article. I have experienced burnout more than once in my 15-year current job at sales. In order to deal with the emotional and physical stress of being burned out, I had to take two different leaves from work for 1.5 years each. During those times I knew I had to not only physically, but mentally rest. What really helped me was saying "No" more often (especially to myself trying to cram every moment of the day); and instead, gave myself permission to take naps when I was tired, and just rest. Another saving grace was me discovering my love for hiking, and connecting with nature many times throughout the week. Returning to being very mindful of what I was doing, and taking extra gentle care of myself helped volumes.
I took last week totally off from the studio because I was worn out from dealing with this persistent vertigo. The ENT told me that I probably would not find the answer in medicine, and I agree after seeing that he did not do any investigation of what my symptoms might mean. One reason is because the poor doctors are not allowed to spend much time at all with any one patient and some of us have very weird things that would need lots of investigation for which there is not time. So, I have decided to go the TCM who was helping me a few years ago with herbs and other things. The big problem is money, and I was not able to continue with him even though I was working then. Hubby has agreed to help with payments and that will take some stress off my shoulders as well. I am tired of not walking well or safely and I want some sort of resolution! It is a burnout of sorts; in that I am tired of trying to live a sort of normal life around these symptoms! I will keep you posted, Sandra! <3
Hey Sandra..I glad you found a calm in the storm....my sister is in such a storm...and I got a blast of it last night...she has boundaries issues at wrk & keeps taking on more & more ... on top of starving herself so she can get into all her skinny skirts she wore when she was like 20... she is spinning out of control...and won`t listen to anyone . I wanted to lash out back to her...but I thought I don`t need to take this personally...she`s just frustrated...glad I didn`t..otherwise it would have been me not sleeping...but other than just listen,...I don`t know what else to do.. it`s like watching a car accident in slow motion
Yeah I'm feeling ya. Health burnout here too. Too much stress due to two extra chronic diagnosis recently added on. Mindfulness/meditation is my great balancer/equalizer when pulled up into the mind. So want to do more but the body says NO. I have learnt abeit slowly to listen to it. And to know that in listening to it is compassionate self care. Go gently Sandra.
I suppose there can be secondary casualties of burnout ...like sister`s that get hammered for just
listening & trying to help ...sorry Sandra ..I`ve lost all sympathy for her now...I can`t relate..sadder yet it`s hurting me more than her ..cause we haven`t talked..we`re piss poor at talking..screaming OK ... talking... forget it : (((
What an important topic. Thank you for sharing!
I don’t have all of the answers, but I do know that our bodies need recovery each day in order to replenish our spoons. I teach people to do this via ‘Active stress management’ which I briefly wrote about last year in this post (and write about often over on my Substack): https://humansleading.substack.com/p/getting-to-ok