Burnout is a familiar state for most passionate and determined people.
Burnout is a familiar state for most passionate and determined people.
You’re here for a reason.
You have a strong passion to serve and a vision that you passionately care about.
It feels like you are always in need of more hours in the day and more energy to do ALL THE THINGS.
This vision might be pursued through…
…your profession,
your relationships,
creative projects,
activism to create real change.
You might be juggling commitments in all these areas at once. There are so many things to do, places to be, and causes to care about that you honestly don’t understand how people can walk around feeling satisfied rather than driven to do more.
What is Burnout?
It feels like perpetual exhaustion. We know we’ve pushed limits a few times too many and we feel the cost of that. What used feel fulfilling is now just a slog, and a frustrating brain fog takes over. You’re no less determined or committed, but you hit an internal brick wall when you try to move forward.
Burnout isn’t an individual problem. It’s created by a culture that holds impossible standards of perpetual growth, earning and producing, but doesn’t remember or value what we are supposed to be growing, earning and producing for.
Passionate, determined, highly capable people can easily find themselves sucked in by systems that use their drive and enthusiasm at the expense of their own wellbeing.
I help passionate and multipassionate people identify and dismantle the cultural drivers of burnout so they can serve their big visions more sustainably.
i offer the following ways to work with me around burnout
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Burnout Articles
Change Won’t Happen the Way You Think
Each time I’m invited to give a presentation on burnout, one of the inevitable questions in the Q&A that follows is, “What exactly are the stages of burnout?” I can understand why people ask this question. Human brains need frameworks to hang concepts on. And anyone who has taken a Psychology 101 class was trained in [read more]
What If There’s Nothing Wrong With You?
I’m not the first person to ask this question. Susan Henkels has been asking for years. But I ask the question here because the perception that there’s something wrong with you has a lot to do with burnout, and a certain type of marketer has been on a campaign for a long time to convince you [read more]
Psst… Everything is Made Up!
There was a TV show in the late 90s that I probably watched about twice, a workplace comedy based on a fictional fashion company called Veronica’s Closet. I barely remember it, but there was a single joke in a single episode that has stuck with me for years. A character makes up a word in a [read more]
The Linear Progress Myth: Why Taking a Break Isn’t Losing Momentum
As a high school senior, I had a few people in my circle who were planning to take a gap year, and this plan was usually met with alarm. The most commonly held view was something like, "If you quit now, you’ll never go back." There’s certain amount of momentum involved, the argument goes, and if [read more]
Four Mindset Shifts to Combat Productivity Guilt
There’s a moment that happens right when you walk through the door at the end of the day, or maybe as you shut down your work computer or pull into the driveway after picking the kids up. You’re looking forward to finally relaxing for a moment, taking a walk, shutting your brain off, maybe watching an [read more]
Better Than New Years Resolutions: Three Alternatives
Every year, January brings an explosion of discussion around resolutions and goals. I get it. There’s an exciting energy in the start of a new year that we want to harness. But most of the time, the way we handle this sets us up for feeling disappointed and guilty by February. Some pitfalls that seem to [read more]
