(intro) This channel helps you to become more stress resilient, to push a nearing burnout away and to fight back out ouf burnout and exhaustion depressions.
Modern society and lifestyle causes a fast rise of stress related severe health events. Heart issues, high blood pressure, strokes, burnouts, exhaustion depressions and selfharming shame of not "functioning" anymore.
Better selfcare is crucial.
We wanna build an army of comebackers & resiliencers; with daily advice for
1) selfcure or
2) if your partner suffers/is close to burnout and you wanna help
Tiny daily steps build conscience, rebuild skills, routines, letting you regrow in a way that you can't imagine now.
Join the @ComebackGrid. Regain life and prevent / combat stress related struggles - from an insider's view who knows how all this felt and returned even stronger.
Recharge & Rebuild 87 - your recovery from burnout and exhaustion:
The older you get, the more your energy becomes your most valuable asset. β‘
Learn to feel it. Manage it. Respect it.
Your body and mind are your partners β not just fuel to burn. π§ πͺ
Here's the trap nobody warns you about:
Stress feels productive. It pushes your energy up, you get things done β but your body is quietly paying the price, pulling power away from:
π‘οΈ immune defense
π regeneration & recovery
π§ mental stabii6
Most of us only learned this the hard way β through burnout. Batteries dead. Years of slow recharging ahead.
You don't want that lesson.
Start listening to your body before it forces you to. π
π Take (good self-)care. You are absolutely worth it.
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π Join the @ComebackGrid β your space for tackling burnout, stress, and exhaustion depression, step by step - one tip a day. My promise: zero burnout buzzword quotes; but daily treasure tidbits from someone who's actually been there.
@adelbucetta@kieran__duff Agree. Such activities with heavy task switching / multitasking and many emotions potentially being involved (e.g. fulltime day trading) require disciplined mental and bodily well-being hacks for balance and protection of one's own capacities.
Take your time to reduce your burnout. "Working on it" is not the phrase you should use π
"Treating me some rest, relaxation and outdoor impressions" is the best to work on a burnout.
Take good care of your resources.
You and your creativity deserve it.ππ
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That's a great question.
I had to learn it the hard way, by a severe burnout with depression included. It became a turning point in my life and my work ethics (which was highly efficient perfectionism without delegating).
Some practices:
- real coffee/tea breaks instead of fetching a new full cup to my desk
- establishing "silent times" in which I focus on an important task to get a flow (no interruption allowed by colleagues, smartphone off, emails off, phone in answering machine mode)
- I start in the morning programming myself which 1 or 2 tasks I want to get done (realistically) , so that I don't let new orders crash my priorities
- affirmations to myself that tasklists never go to zero, so it is OK to do good work, leave in time, and then continue tomorrow
- going out of the office for a walk when brainstorming with colleagues (way better creativity)
- don't schedule meetings in the most productive times 8-14 o'clock
-checking myself (post-it) on the bathroom mirror at home, that I still nurture hobbies and friendships
Many more tiny hacks?
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- burnout resilience is a great skill to learn every day
Do you have a practice you can recommend?
Jose, take good selfcare. I couldn't move a computer mouse for 10 months due to burnout and the burnout-depression trauma that was re-triggered by touching my work again. Took me a long time to recover.
These 14 hours day fly by like nothing and the stress hormones. (in your case it may have been enthusiastic stress, liking what you do?) make us feel invincible.
Until the body pulls the plug.
The lesson I learnt: even 3 years of 14 hour office workdays are worth nothing when you get work disabled by 1-2 years by burnout. Happened to me.
So, Jose. Kudos for being open talking about yourself feeling burnout and kudos for realising it could be one. Do you feel better after taking a day off? Do you feel uknown uncertainty or anxiety? Or is it just the hands or parts of the body shaking?
Happened to me 1 year before the severe burnout struck me down. Felt like a heart attack or whatever, but it was just the body trying to get rid of the stress hormones by moving the muscles and by playing the fight or flight reaction, that stress hormones are evolutionary made for. Take 1-3 days off, breathe, look at nature's wide space, look at people, do some bodily movement outdoors, like a fast walk (at least 30 minutes until your brain stops ruminating - thats when the healing part of the walk begins) or cycling.
Take (good self-)care. You are absolutely worth it! π
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Join the @ComebackGrid for daily burnout prevention/recovery treasure tidbits from someone who has been there; I carry experiences and a toolkit most therapists/coaches have never felt. My promise: Tiny steps - no brute-force self-optimization and no "hit the gym"-buzzwords. π»
Came across a wooden heart on my way to a client.
BE HONEST. How would you react while on your way from A to B?
1) Which heart?
2) Rush by β ignore it
3) Smile & keep going
4) Smile, stop, embrace, sit in silence for a while
Only one prevents burnout. π₯π
By tracking healthy adults over 12 months, researchers found that regular cardiovascular workouts lead to a drop in systemic cortisol. This reduction suggests physical activity provides a biological buffer against chronic stress. https://t.co/XLI0wHvQ3K
One of the best things I've done for my mental health
Make silence a daily habit.
This looks like
Not touching the phone first thing in the morning
Driving w/ the radio off often
Walks without the phone
Small windows of quiet add up
They say βIf you donβt go within, you go withoutβ
That's it. That permanent news/information stream is stress for our brains. Silence is a thing, restless minds can't bear. Been through this myself.
The bad news: The thoughts and worries that have to be solved, won't disappear by noise. They'll pile up and unload at night; or into anxiety, burnout or depression.
Recharge & Rebuild 86 - your recovery from burnout and exhaustion:
Selfβreflection with pen and paper and a fresh cup of tea - imho ideally in the quiet early morning - can become a real power skill for mental health.
Btw it's an important part of ancient indish Vedanta philosophy - and very handy in current times.
Benefits for our mental well-being:
1οΈβ£ More conscious way of living.
2οΈβ£ Greater mental clarity.
3οΈβ£ You kick off the day in action mode, not reaction mode.
4οΈβ£ Deeper selfβconnection.
5οΈβ£ When done playfully and with kindness to ourselves, our inner critic gets muted. Our inner child feels seen, heard, and safe. π
π Take (good self-)care. You are absolutely worth it.
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π¨ Repost or drop a comment with your own feelings or thoughts.
π Join the @ComebackGrid β your space for tackling burnout, stress, and exhaustion depression, step by step - one tip a day. My promise: zero burnout buzzword quotes; but daily treasure tidbits from someone who's actually been there.
@RealMissAI@bluewmist Burnout often is lack of self-control or lack of self-management. Multitasking (heavy task switching) and being passively reactive all day adds to the burnout level.
That's why spotting early burnout warning signals is so important, e.g. impulsiveness, sarcasm, social retreat due to working longer, letting hobbies fade away etc.
Thanks for contributing to burnout awareness. π
Burnout can be a character problem, too.
If self-worth is defined by work output and external validation (number of clients, client pleasing), self-worth gets very fragile and we push ourselves over our limits. Stress hormones can boost productivity - until exhaustion strikes.