Listen to Your Body

The second tip to preventing burnout? Listen to the most important conduit through which you experience life: your body.

Disclaimer: this is not a guilt-inducing rant about getting healthier. Having grappled with eating disorders, I am allergic to the clichés and consumerism that abound about health and wellness, especially the shame we are caused to feel every day about so many aspects of the human body.

Bigger tits, smaller waist, larger dick, perfect skin, chiseled cheekbones, six-pack abs, eight-pack abs, fat free, sugar free, guilt free… joy free.

So many harmful, nasty, shaming messages, so little time. This is where my first burnout prevention tip — pay attention to your attention — is super important. Anything that makes you feel lesser about your body? Ditch it.

But this tip is not about body image or what is on the outside. It’s about tuning into the inner experience of your body. Because when you are subject to the chronic workplace stress that causes burnout, your body will eventually start sending up signals that things are NOT OK and you need to STOP AND HEAL.

Listening to your Body is Free

So many people I spoke to who have been through burnout reported physical…