Surviving Burnout: My Journey To Overcoming Exhaustion
How I Survived Burnout…🔥
Back in 2021, at the height of my career, I fully, truly hit the wall of burnout. And when I say burnout, I mean complete and total SHUTDOWN with in my body, mind, spirit. I was cooked!
It felt as if the cumulation of a 30 year long journey of pushing my body to its very limits finally caught up with me. I had no choice but to STOP!🛑
The moment I began to heal from burnout, was the moment that I recognized and accepted that through out my life/career, I had been attaching ALL of my worth, value, identity/ego to the things that I did! (The skills, career credits, training, victories, failures, reputation…all of it was my only mean of feeling loved and validated came from the thing I was doing in my career.
I recognized that I was never going to receive that validation/love/affirmation that I needed and was seeking from any external source. That if I don’t learn to cultivate a deep sense of worth, value, safety, comfort with in my self, I would be chasing that elusive need to prove myself for the rest of my life.
I knew that what I needed to do was going to be harder than any stunt I’ve ever performed, I needed to pause and be still in order to start unravelling all of those chords and tangled webs of ideas and stories, of who I am and what I do and how I show up in the world. I needed to give myself permission to put it all down for a second, so that my body and my soul could actually heal.
It was asking myself from my heart, not my ego, what do you want? Who do you want to be? How do you want show up in this world? How do you wanna feel?❤️
It’s a daily practice of choosing a new way of operating in the world.🏆
It’s recognizing the game has changed.
The metrics of success have changed.
It’s knowing, fully, truly, I am worthy, deserving and enough regardless of what I do, what I can do and what do I achieve. No matter what.
And from that deep space of understanding, I can choose to engage with the world, my life and my career. 🦄
That’s where the healing happens.✨
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