Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals

Hannah Holden, a Burnout Prevention expert from UK, speaks about her own burnout experience and how she now works with others. She shares mindfulness and breathing practices for calming the nervous s…

Let's explore how extreme ownership can help you bounce back from burnout and boost your leadership skills. It's so powerful to own your actions, performance and mistakes, instead of overcommitting o…

Childhood gave us rules for survival that worked well then, but can be counter-productive in adulthood. At work, our unresolved childhood fears pop up at random and trigger the amygdala, freezing our…

If you don't know what burnout truly is, how can you tell if you're in it? Or what to do about it?

Let's explode a few myths you may have heard about burnout, so you can get a clear understanding and …

Have you ever considered how safe you feel at work to speak up, take risks, or be yourself? And if you are a leader, how that affects your leadership and team? 

Here we tackle the much-discussed (but …

Burnout recovery starts with safety. Until you feel safe at work, it will be a challenge to overcome your fear-driven reactivity  and perform well.. Happily, you can create all the safety you need in…

Get my 4 best tips to prevent burnout here.

Do ever wonder where the line is between chronic stress and burnout? And if you have crossed it? Or how to know if your loved ones or colleagues are burned …

 Burnout shuts us down big time, cramming us up inside with our negative emotions. We become automatons, plodding through our day, trying to satisfy others, forgetting about things we like to do. 

Wh…

Special guest and fellow burnout recovery coach Eugene Lee talks about how he burned out at 27yo. I love this story because it represents young professionals who are burning out at ever increasing ra…

Change is fun, right? Well, not always, but anything has to be better than burnout :) 

Here are some ideas to boost your learning power and results in burnout recovery -  to make change as easy, seaml…

 Belonging is a gnarly topic to raise with anyone in burnout, who is caught between wanting to be seen as a high-performer, and guiltily slinking away, feeling like a failure. 

Belonging is widely mis…

Most people can't recover from burnout alone - because what got them into burnout will not get them out. 

It takes a mentor - but asking for help rarely comes naturally to those in burnout.

Worse, many…

It can be hard for a successful executive or professional with an established reputation to admit to burnout. Yet for such a person, burnout recovery requires expert help. It's a rare human indeed wh…

If you're struggling to deal with moral outrage or moral injury at work, and it's contributing to burnout for you, here are some ways you can heal your suffering.

Don't stay in suffering, take action …

Are you stuck in burnout or career growth?

Let's talk about breaking free from stuckness and overcoming burnout. The origins of stuckness lie in our self-belief and fears, and burnout symptoms prevent…

Don't accept being stuck with an under-performing and fragile brain.

Practice these simple exercises to gain more mastery over burnout. Replace the societal focus on over-achievement with productive a…

Our human bodies are designed to heal, but under a constant burden of high stress, not enough sleep, poor diet, lack of exercise, less than nourishing social connections and willful self-neglect, thr…

It can be tough(!) to pause for self-care when burnt out, but those essential pauses can be transformative. I've learned that the act of being kind to oneself is not a luxury; it's a necessity - our …

Are your feeling burned out and stuck because of learned helplessness? It can happen to anyone!

In a burnout context, Learned Helplessness can simply be an old pattern of thinking amenable to gentle …

One of the most common indicators of burnout is feeling disrespected. 

We tend to feel unacknowledged, under-valued, unsupported and used. Which we naturally don't appreciate when we're also giving ou…