Preventing Holiday Burnout Part 1: Try These 3 Self-Care Tips
The signs of burnout feel like uninvited guests every holiday season. Instead of joyful anticipation for the holidays, all you feel is exhaustion and anxiety. This holiday season, I want to equip you with self-care practices that will improve your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Spice Up Your Life: How Adventurous Self-Care Helps You Overcome Burnout
Being on the road to burnout stinks. Your life feels like it’s being smothered in a wet blanket. Instead of seeing the world in technicolor, you see everything in monochromatic grey that’s about as exciting as the 100th Seattle rainy day in a row. Not only has...
How To Prevent – Or Even Heal – Burnout By Coming To Your Senses
Normally, someone exhorting you to come to your senses means “smarten up!” But I’m going to take a completely different approach - I want you to come to your senses by caring for and indulging them, so you can prevent or even heal burnout. Yet before you can come to...
How Spiritual Self-Care Can Lead You Back From Burnout
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe." - Albert Einstein If you woke up this morning feeling like it’s yet another day the universe is out to stomp you into the ground, and then it only gets worse from...
Emotional Self-Care Can Help You Overcome Burnout
Many of us neglect our emotional health. We’re simply not taught to be concerned about it while we pursue personal and professional success.
Practice Mental Self-Care To Prevent (Or Heal From) Burnout
Emotional self-care focuses on how you’re feeling. By contrast, mental self-care is being discerning of what you allow into your mind.
How Physical Self-Care Can Break Your Burnout Cycle
A good physical self-care routine incorporates diet, exercise, and the quality of your sleep, and are also key for the prevention and healing of burnout
Burnout Recovery Requires Consistent Self-Care
“What’s up with you? It’s as though you don’t even like yourself anymore.” If you’ve heard this recently, pay attention. Someone who cares about you has noticed that you haven’t been showing yourself the love you need. And here's the thing. You may genuinely believe...
How Healthy Personal Boundaries Can Help You Overcome Burnout
“Why did they ask me to do that? I don’t have time! Don’t they know how busy I am...and did I really just say YES?!” If this sounds like some of your internal monologue, I want to offer you support with setting personal boundaries both as a way of self-care and to...
Perfectionism Can Burn You Out (But The Remedy Is Surprisingly Simple)
“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.” - Anne Wilson Schaef Are you the queen of perfectionism? I was. People could hardly stand to be around me. I was unbearable. Everything had to be done the way I did it, or it wasn’t done correctly. But if you’re...
