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Burnout
The word gets thrown around a lot. Tired week? Burnout. Busy season? Burnout. And look, I'm not here to police your language. If you say you're burnt out, I believe you're suffering.
But clinically, burnout is something more specific. And more serious.
Burnout isn't just being tired. Tired goes away after a good night's sleep. Burnout is bone-deep, a fatigue that lives in your marrow, that follows you into the weekend, that's there when you wake up and there when you fall asleep.
Burnout isn't just overwhelm. Overwhelm says "there's too much." Burnout says "nothing matters anymore."
There's a cynicism to it. A detachment. The things that used to light you up now feel like obligations. The people you love feel like demands. And underneath it all is a quiet, terrifying question: what's the point?
Burnout is what happens when your nervous system has been running on empty for too long, and the engine finally stalls and then keeps being asked to run anyway.
In our work together, we don't try to motivate you out of burnout.
That would be like yelling at a broken leg to run. Instead, we start exactly where you are, which might be horizontal. We work with your body to find the smallest possible signal of what it needs. Not a life overhaul. Just one thing. A slower breath. Permission to stop. Someone sitting beside you who doesn't need you to perform.
Recovery from burnout is slow. That's not a design flaw. That's your body finally being listened to.
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