Wellness and Burnout

This week, all sorts of great things are happening. First, tomorrow is the release of the first episode of FRIED: The Ultimate Guide To Burnout Podcast. My first guest is Ashley Rose, a Transformational Life Coach who helps women to transform trauma that is keeping them stuck and burning them...

(AND 5 THINGS I LEARNED THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE)

When I was thick in the throes of burnout, around year 6, I finally realized what was happening. The word burnout made sense to me. I didn’t accept it at first because I ‘had a nice life’ and ‘nothing to complain...

Oh, my people pleasers. Sit with me a minute. Just sit and listen to what I did recently and then laughed at myself.

I was standing and ironing. We just recently got a brand new iron, and I had some shirts and pants to get done for the week. So, I got to it. I set the iron to cotton, waited for...

I was in the car, cruising down the 95 between Providence and New York last week and a book title hit me: People Pleasers Fry Different. I can just see the cover now, bright blue with scratchy font and an illustration of a cast iron frying pan with a woman, in jeans and a t-shirt in snow angel...

Over the past month, we had a big discussion about Burnout. What it means, what it is, what it does to you. This all started because someone asked me: “I know I’m burnt out, but do I need a coach?”

I started with a 3 part series of what burnout is to show the difference people...

Over the past two weeks, we’ve gone over the signs and symptoms of burnout according to Christina Maslach, PhD., a burnout researcher who provides us with the majority of knowledge that is used today when talking about burnout.

Maslach tells us that burnout consists of:

1. Physical and...

CYNICISM AND DETACHMENT

In last week’s post, we started addressing the question: How Do I Know If I’m Burnt Out?

I introduced you to burnout researcher Christina Maslach, Ph.D., and her top signs of burnout after years of research that she labels:

1. Physical and Emotional...

I’ve got a whole book coming on this, but this part needs to be laid out for you now because I’ve gotten so many questions about it recently.

The questions were: do I need a Burnout Coach? What does a Burnout Coach do? How do I know if I’m burnt out?

In order to address the...

Just last month, I ran the first: Get Out Of Your Own Way Challenge. It was SO MUCH FUN. I loved getting your responses every day and I loved the shifts that happened in your lives in 12 short days.

I sent out a survey after the challenge and asked the challengers what their favorite exercise...

**DISCLAIMER**
These are my thoughts and opinions. I’m sure there are studies somewhere to back some of this up, but I’m not going to go looking for them. You’re welcome to if you’d like. In addition, this article in no way states that you are at fault for your illness....