For the first time in my career I’ve been signed off due to burnout 🫠 My default personality’s friendly golden retriever but damn the past few months have been back to back pressure and I buckled. I need to do a lot of soul searching about what to fix and what career switch is right for me. Unhelpfully, burnout causes brain fog so 🫠 step one is just piecing my brain back together. I’ve no idea what I’m doing but Louie’s gentle friendship has been healing. He doesn’t demand anything from me, he’s just happy to pad alongside me in the woods and keep me company while I figure this out.

Ah… been there… Take care and take it slow 🫶

I’m sorry Lee x take the time you need, burnout sucks. when you’re feeling a bit better, if you feel up for some low stakes pool games or a coffee hmu!

Nobody has infinite energy, not even a golden retriever. I hope you can reclaim some of your energy for yourself; it’s easy to forget yourself when you want to give so much of your love, time, energy to others. It’s generous but we must be kind to ourselves and sometimes that means withholding a bit of yourself for yourself.

It’s impotent to get in touch with who we are outside of employment. Sending you twinkling vibes ✨

As a burnout survivor, I can tell you that it takes time and yeah, some professional help if you’re willing and able. While I had the power and the desire within me to accept how it happened, it took some professional guidance and a lot of love by those around me to see me through it. My burnout was epic. It changed my life forever, and for the better. It took soul-searching, travel, discovery, and little bitty decisions along the way to get me to where I am today. Healing will come slowly. Just let it take its time and surround yourself with those who can hold you up. Including the pups. They are wonderful listeners. Mine were. if you ever wanna chat, hit me up. Sometimes a listening stranger is some darn good medicine. 🫶🏻

@noa This is SUCH a kind offer genuinely, *thank you* 🥲 I’ll be coming back to the land of the living in the next few weeks and would love to swing in for a hang, hell yeah 🫶

@justben A sincere thank you for this wisdom, I held on to it today when I had to clock in and got fire hosed with updates on everything that happened while I was gone 🫥 I usually go running into problems head first to fix things but I’m going to experiment with with not shouldering that role. @lav you’re bang on the money, and I’m giving myself the ick realising how tangled my self worth and worth in the workplace got. I have MUCH work to do.

@bps This was SUCH a kind message to send a stranger, *thank* you ♥️ I’ve not swam in these waters before and it’s beyond disorientating when my industry is entirely built around hustle culture. Untangling this is going to take a LONG time isn’t it? 🫠 I’m so so pleased that you found your way home slowly and gently. I will keep your kind shoulder squeeze in my head as I fumble around to get to my feet.