Give yourself permission to let your brain and hands go “offline.”
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I am a therapist person, a professional coach, an instructor, a social worker during the day, and a business person. .
I am also a tired person who has loved ones who need me and a life outside of my professional entities.
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In the past several months, I have become more and more aware of how much our society promotes and glorifies burnout—from praising one another for “hustling” and working numerous side gigs to sacrificing sleep to work more or do more, skipping meals, or working through lunches.
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We have lost the essence of what it means to be a human being by trading it all to become “human doings.”
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As a therapist, I endorse being in therapy. And as a coach, I find the importance of working with other coaches. In my recent sessions with my professionals, we dug deep and found that the desire to drive one to overworking is rooted from a place of competition, comparison, and competence.
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I encourage anyone who has been feeling any symptoms of burnout (depression, low mood, low motivation, physical and emotional exhaustion, irritability, “not wanting to people,” avoidance of tasks, etc.) to dig deep and ask yourself whether you are overworking for yourself… or for someone else.
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Whatever answer you arrive to, sit with it for a second. Acknowledge what you actually want for yourself. And respect yourself enough to know when it’s time to allow your hands to rest and your brains to sleep.
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