Our Top Tips on Burnout
Kristen here, with our 3 tips for burnout recovery. Burnout recovery is a fickle thing. It depends on how you’re experiencing burnout and what part of your life it’s affecting the most. For example: are you disconnected emotionally from your kids, but still engaged at work? Are you listless at work, but don’t feel any burnout from your volunteer position? How you go about structuring your recovery might differ based on those factors.
Either way, our tips remain the same. It’s the execution that might change, not the base guidance.
1: Find activities that make you happy and do more of those
2: Make sure you’re getting adequate physical rest for your body, while also moving it as you can
3: Stay connected with people who remind you that who you are is not what you do
Look really simple on paper (screen), don’t they? That’s because they are simple in that they’re straightforward. Joy is a burnout mitigator – make sure to cultivate it. The right people help you feel not so overwhelmed – spend time with them. Your body is designed to function on both rest and movement – incorporate both.
Executing those are…more difficult.
The Paths Out of Burnout
Maybe reading ticks off the ‘joy’ box for you, and a book club could tick ‘connection’. Maybe you’ve always wanted to try windsurfing, so you give it a run, and the challenge of it reignites something in you that helps you rebalance your Wheel of Wellbeing. Maybe you’ve snored for years and it’s time for a sleep study.
Lots of maybes.
There’s a lot of paths to burnout, so it makes sense there’s a lot of paths out of it. These principles will guide you through those paths (we promise). They might seem hard, but that’s why they’re our tips for burnout recovery.
Want to know more details about our principles? We added another one to this list and called them The Four Rs and you can learn all about them HERE.
