Burnout is something I have wanted to talk about on the podcast for a long time. It seems to be a pattern that I can look back on in my life. I tend to go ALL in on things. From casual creative hobbies, to work, to exercise, to supporting people in my life, I go all in, usually balancing all of these things at the same time. 

Burnout:

-What is burnout? The definitions and symptoms

- Vilius and I share our different experiences of burnout 

-Burnout being different from chronic fatigue or depression, but can have very similar symptoms

-Compassion fatigue wow! It is a thing. To all my empaths out there, we can get drained from emotionally investing energy into others.

-Toxic positivity

-The “grind” our society perpetuates the idea of grinding and then some of us, I would include myself in this category, just go all-in on things until we reach a stage of burnout.

Finding balance:

-We share our experiences

-& Practices we try and have tried to find more balance 

Good Shit: 

We share a podcast/book/thing we have been enjoying recently- inspired by The Self-Helpless Podcast 

Vilius and I usually have different experiences and views on things, and it was great to explore burnout and balance in an open and honest way.  

Some links we mentioned:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00284/full

https://www.positive.news/society/positive-news-stories-from-week-27-of-2021/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911781/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mental-health-in-the-workplace/202008/burnout-is-real-the-rise-and-retractable