Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals

In burnout, we are typically over-run with all kinds of negative emotions, that wear us down, reduce our effectiveness at work and impact our mood and energy. Once we're very tired, this experience c…

In these anxiety-ridden times, we need to talk about safety, and how to create a sense of safety inside ourselves that allows us to open up to this full human experience without being overwhelmed.

The…

In this podcast episode, Dex Randall interviews Jonathan Pritchard, a mentalist and showman known as the "million dollar mind reader." Jonathan shares his journey in the world of mentalism, starting …

Controlling the Narrative is often touted as a desirable outcome.
But is it?

Certainly, when we're experiencing burnout, it has some appeal! We hope - usually in vain - that others will overlook our …

Since quitting her own job as a lawyer, Goli Kalkhoran has transitioned to coaching and now hosts the "Lessons from a Quitter" podcast. She helps de-stigmatize quitting and coaches mostly women who a…

It's super-helpful to know how to use the vagus nerve to promote instant calm in your nervous system, mind and body.

Otherwise, if your nervous system is chronically triggered by stress and anxiety, y…

 Dr. Laura Sicola is an expert in a skill that many of us lack - powerful and influential communication at the C-suite level. She knows how YOU can help people hear, and stay engaged with, your messa…

Are you Type A and in burnout?

If you reckon you have "Type A" behaviours, you might notice how they contribute to burnout. You're most likely driving yourself hard, treating yourself harshly and taki…

If you're wondering if you are in burnout, listen to the 7 deadly sins to find out. You also need to know why it's so hard to recover by yourself, and how you really can get your work mojo back. It's…

One of my clients asked me last week how to start giving himself approval. It's a great question, because in burnout we're pretty mean to ourselves and, as a result, constantly seek external approval…

It's vital to know that you can have great success after burnout, since burnout comes with an extra dose of despair.

So I'm going to say it here:
If professional burnout is your main problem, you can h…

The first step in burnout recovery can be daunting. Many men have no idea if, or how, burnout can be fixed - and facing the prospect of talking about what they see as a failing isn't very appealling.

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Do you want your career to grow this year?

In these times of interest rate hikes, escalating cost of living  and widespread job loss - you can protect your career and finances, even if you are current…

 You may have discovered that from the dark trenches of burnout, a new work role often looks very seductive. However, all is not as it seems.

If you are exhausted and frustrated to the extent of burno…

 Getting new habits to stick can be a challenge(!), so here are some excellent tweaks to make habit-forming as close to effortless as it gets!

Starting small and easy, with plenty of reward, turns out…

As leaders, we  might be tempted to ..ahem.. over-manage our teams, but in fact the greatest success is much more likely to come from teaching them to self-manage and letting their collective creativ…

Cait Donovan has just written a paper on ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and burnout, so we talk here about that and her extensive experience as a Burnout Coach. Cait also shares her methods of …

Anxiety is the main axis around which all the other symptoms of burnout revolve and it's especially so for leaders, whose distress might be amplified by the distress of the people they lead. 

Many of …

Performative productivity sound good. Doesn't it?

But in burnout, it isn't. It's looking like you're being productive, without actually delivering the deep value that's expected of you. It's looking b…

 Our anguish in burnout tends to be magnified enormously by a merciless inner critic, that chips away at our self-esteem, morale and motivation all day long.

But you don't need to put up with THAT kin…