What Is Burnout? How Can You Recognize It? And How Can You Recover From It?

One major sign of burnout is waking up every day feeling apathetic. That feeling of nothing goes my way, I have a black crowd over my head, feeling exhausted, barely able to get myself out of bed, or crashing at the end of the day. Likewise, a lot of times people who experience burnout have frequent colds, gut health issues, or autoimmune diseases are triggered. Ultimately, stress causes illness and disease in the body.

Emotional flare-ups occur more frequently when burnout is present. People are triggered more easily with emotions such as guilt, shame, or embarrassment.

These are all signs of burnout.

Stress Versus Burnout

Stress is short-term. You may stretch yourself thin, push yourself beyond your limits for a short period of time, but then are able to come back to center, regroup, or recover and then maybe do it again.

Burnout is when you have a prolonged period of excessive stress that doesn’t end. You stay consistently stressed over a longer period of time. The body can acclimate to this level of stress and people live in this one trajectory never realizing they are burning themselves out.

In episode 130 Nicole Laino talked about feminine vs. male energy and how as women, we are doers. We get into the mode of doing and don’t take the time to simply be, and recognize that we have to step away in order to move forward.

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