Özgün Ünver reveals what causes burnout in academia — and how to recover from academic burnout.
Özgün Ünver is a burnout expert and a wellbeing coach for academics. We met through LinkedIn and immediately bonded over our shared passion: ending burnout for individuals and within organizations.
Academia is a field close to my heart (my brother is a professor of mathematics) and academics are particularly susceptible…
Davida Ginter on what needs to shift so change makers, social leaders and sustainability experts can avoid burnout and thrive.
LinkedIn is fast becoming one of my favorite places to meet like-minded people: like Davida Ginter.
Davida is the founder and CEO of Enkindle Global and a bright, articulate leader in burnout prevention and culture change. …
Spoiler: burnout is not your fault.
Burnout is not just a bad day, or week, or even a challenging month. Burnout is an ongoing state of extreme exhaustion, cynicism, reduced capacity and loss of identity.
Understanding why burnout happens is essential for a healthy future of work, and, well, a healthy future of us: burnout is…
Leadership expert Suzi McAlpine on what leaders can do to shift company culture and put an end to burnout.
I reached out to New Zealand-based leadership expert Suzi McAlpine after we connected through our work on burnout on Twitter. And I’m so glad I did.
Suzi is the author of Beyond Burnout, a book which gives leaders and organizations practical, actionable strategies for shifting culture and ending burnout. She…
How lawyer Eric Zheng Yu Zhang overcame his mental health struggles — and the change he wants to see in the legal industry.
A mutual friend connected me with Eric Zheng Yu Zhang after he wrote a powerful post on LinkedIn about his struggles with depression as a young lawyer.
Eric is an inspiring example of courage, working to create change and innovation within a very traditional work culture.
During our awesome conversation…
With legislation now proposed to make a 32-hour workweek standard in the US, here are the upsides of working less & working better
Last week, California congressman Mark Takano introduced proposed legislation to reduce the US national standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours.
Take a moment to let that sink in. A 32-hour workweek.
4 workdays. 3 leisure. No change to your salary.
It’s not law yet, but even the fact that…
When we’re stressed, our emotions want to help. How to embrace the wisdom of your emotions.
Many of us grew up believing emotions were bad.
“Don’t cry.”
“Girls shouldn’t be angry.”
“Boys shouldn’t let emotions show.”
“Stop that incessant laughter.”
“Don’t be sad.”
When the message was emotions are bad — when we were punished for our feelings — we didn’t learned the basic truths of…
When we are in chronic workplace stress, burnout is often a matter of when, not if. Here’s why.
Stress of itself is not bad. We need stress to grow and learn.
Chronic stress is different.
When you are subject to ongoing, chronic workplace stress, eventually, you are pretty likely to…
And why knowing your values is essential to avoiding burnout and living a life you love.
When we are overwhelmed by chronic workplace stress, it can be tempting to quit and head straight into another job.
I totally get this.
When I was in the middle of my burnout, my boss offered to find me an in-house legal role with one of our clients.
I declined.
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How, for Angela, hitting a wall became a gift.
Angela came to me after hitting a wall — she woke up one day and could not lift her head. As a software engineer based in Paris, she had been working 80-hour weeks as long as she could remember. Now, her body had given way.
As she put it in…
Sally Clarke
burnout expert, life coach, copywriter and life lover. hiking, surfing, adventuring Dutch-Aussie in California. she/her www.salcla.com
