Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals

When I first followed this podcast, (cringe alert, younger Dex), I felt the energy of it. I can’t explain why. Upon listening to him for the first time. I started to turn it off..a couple of times. But the more that I continued listening to him, the more that I started feeling like he was truly talking to me and my current condition. I think what finally convinced me that this was the right podcast for me was when he mentioned John Kabbat Zinn, the author of “Wherever You Go, There You Are”, a book that nearly saved my central nervous system when I was working a job that had me on an improvement plan not too long after I started. Who knew that only 3 years later would begin a series of life changing events that, yet again threatened my sympathetic nervous system like nothing I could have ever imagined? While suffering the way I was, If someone where to tell me that life would be making such an incredible turn for the better, but there were some new normals that I would have to accept and work with, this would be inconceivable. Crazier still, if someone told me that at the tail end of it and at the beginning of the best part of my life, would be a hauntingly soft Australian voice telling me that all of the negative self talk we learned from people telling me lies as a kid and that I could start unlearning them by knowing that I am still deserving of a happy and stimulating life, I would laugh at them. Yet, here I am listening again and it always brings about a culminating understanding of my experiences and a sense of peace. Thanks Dex.