How to Navigate and Heal from a Burnout Crisis
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A big thanks to the People and well-being leaders in this community for their amazing focus on supporting their organizations that have brought this work to life.
It’s a collective effort to realize wellbeing in the workplace, promote mental and emotional health for performance, and end the culture of chronic stress and burnout. #Wellbeing is the new performance
Join us on October 4, 2023 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET for our next Workplace Wellbeing, Performance, and Recovery Support for People Leaders on LinkedIn.
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Key Highlights:
The theme for this week’s community support is recovery and sustained performance
The dark night of the soul is real.
It’s sad and depressing. It’s heavy.
After a job loss.
A divorce or breakup.
A bankruptcy.
Shutting down your business.
Perhaps even a health crisis that leaves you in despair.
It has incredible crushing momentum.
Whichever the situation, quite too often we feel so helpless that we completely shut down and want to give up.
This is where emotional state management is so important and acts as how we steer our lives out of the ditch.
When we’re down for the count, we have a tendency to plan for the worst and act on destructive behavior that snowballs more problems.
It’s instinctive and we do it out of survival.
The problem is, when feeling so low, it’s hard to just willpower out of it, and positive thoughts seem untrue and non-believable.
Instead, focus the mind on the body:
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Feeling good.
It’s not about distraction.
It’s about priming your nervous system to slowly get out of fight, flight, and freeze.
Feel good first, so we can begin to think from a place of positive emotion.
What memory brings you love and joy?
What have you been grateful for in the past?
What can you be grateful for now?
Incorporate breath work to stimulate the vagus nerve, just 10 minutes of focused deep breathing. I like to follow the ratio of 3 seconds inhale and 7 seconds exhale, about 1:2.
As we self-regulate, our next priority is to process our trauma. This is the core of recovery work.
I recommend finding a therapist, trauma release specialist or a MER®️ practitioner to clear our mental and emotional baggage so we can regain capacity in those areas.
As we do release work, we can easily reclaim and grasp the lessons and the ability to actually respond to our circumstances instead of being reactive to them.
Integrating these lessons is the empowerment process and positively shapes your life moving forward to heal and rebuild yourself.
Coping is not a healthy long-term option.
Now is the time to set outcomes from a congruent well-centered place, and take small steps and actions, and achieve new quick wins that re-establishes a positive outlook, personal confidence, and resilience.
Feel good > think good > be good when it comes to your recovery.
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3. Build out Workplace Burnout Responsiveness and Recovery in your organization by booking a strategy call with me, here.