The First Step To Healing From Burnout

How to start your journey out of burnout, and towards growth

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Burnout can leave you feeling helpless and isolated. Reaching out to others and acknowledging what is happening is essential. In fact, it forms the first step in your healing journey: Talk.

You cannot change what you deny or ignore. By talking about burnout, you reclaim your power.

Being honest about burnout creates a sliver of the objectivity you need for change. As your mind, body and soul heal and evolve, your objectivity grows. Insights abound. When you act on these insights, the process becomes empowering and even transformative.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

Talk is not simply about being around other people or scrolling through your socials. We can feel profoundly lonely in a crowd and social media generally leaves us feeling less, rather than more, connected. As trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk frames it in The Body Keeps the Score, “For our physiology to calm down, heal and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety.” That’s what this step is all about.

You don’t have to heal alone. In fact, you cannot heal…