5 WAYS TO OVERCOME BURNOUT

5 Ways To Overcome Burnout

What do we mean by burnout?

While burnout includes many of the same symptoms as stress, there are three specific feelings that differentiate burnout:

• Feeling tired or exhausted
• A lack of enthusiasm and increased negativity towards your job
• Decreased ability to perform your job

Prolonged burnout may manifest itself in physical symptoms – anxiety, fatigue, stress, body aches, stomach issues.

Signs To Watch For:

• Your passion fades
• You feel numbness – no highs or lows
• Little things make you disproportionately angry
• Nothing satisfies you
• Everybody drains you
• You’re becoming cynical
• You self-medicate
• Your productivity is dropping
• You don’t laugh anymore
• You can’t think straight

When To Seek Help

• You are experiencing more than a few of the signs for several weeks
• You are having unusual physical symptoms
• Reach out earlier rather than later

Recovery
Burnout is real. We don’t often think of our work as taxing our mind and body in the same way that we think of the impact of athletic training and performance but there are a lot of similarities. As in athletics, RECOVERY is as important as training when it comes to avoiding burnout!