Joyfully Imperfect for Highly Driven Women

Lessons Learned: My Journey from Burnout to Self-Care and Resilience

Living with chronic stress has become all too familiar in our fast-paced lives, particularly for those navigating corporate or entrepreneurial worlds. It's alarmingly easy to find ourselves gradually slipping into burnout. The pandemic and its accompanying challenges have only heightened our stress levels, making burnout an ever-present threat. Today, I'll open up about my personal journey, sharing the warning signs, the tipping point, and the importance of taking a much-needed break. My hope is that by sharing my experiences, I can offer valuable insights, sparking introspection and inspiring positive change in our listeners.

How to beat burnout without quitting your job

Burnout has become an all too common phenomenon in today's fast-paced and demanding world. Burnout is a state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion caused by prolonged and excessive stress. Early signs can often be missed as it looks like dissatisfaction at work or lack of motivation. I have been in your shoes and burnt out in my corporate job. I didn’t recognize the signs early enough and intervened.  In retrospect, if I had reached out earlier and taken steps the results might have been different.  It reoriented me to a different path though and now I get to create change by working with corporations, leaders, and individuals to prevent burnout. Please listen to this episode, and share it with others. I would love to hear from you what resonated.

How can you overcome procrastination through Inspiration and Motivation?

I have been procrastinating recording this podcast for over 2 weeks. My perfectionism kept getting in the way. Even though this podcast was born of being inspired to help other people like me and I had inspiration for topics, the motivation was lacking. It got me pondering as to how inspiration, and motivation go hand in hand and both are necessary to overcome procrastination and move forward. The questions for you to ponder, as you listen to this episode are: What inspires you? What is an example in your life that you can think of where you felt inspired to do something and you took action and got a sense of fulfillment? On a daily basis, what motivates you to keep going? What are some of the things that you, you, you do to keep yourself motivated? I invite you to think of examples in your life where inspiration and motivation produced amazing results. Use these examples to steer your daily life and pay attention to when they flow together with ease.

How to enjoy your summer while juggling work, visitors and kids?

Its summer time and there is part of your that's excited and another part of you that is dreading it. all that juggling- work, kids home form school, visitors form out of town- that seems like a lot. Are you trying to do it all and take care of everything this summer? Summer can get overwhelming if you are. How to manage work and play? How to enjoy your visitors without getting overwhelmed? Some tips for you to enjoy your summer fully this time. Looking for some tips on how to enjoy your summer with family and kids, catch this episode where Beth and I talk about how we manage family and kids through summer. Beth has elementary school kids and mine are teens and our challenges are different but we share how we make it an enjoyable summer without neglecting our kids or deleting ourselves. Catch the episode of Befriend here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6-how-to-create-an-empowered-summer-with-family/id1668185736?i=1000614627600

How do I stop repeating the same mistakes again and again?

Do you keep having the same fight over and over again? Do you want that your spouse would show up differently for you? Keep feeling unappreciated at home or at work. Does the same situation keep repeating with colleagues, subordinates, or managers? How do I stop the same thing from happening over and over again? Why do I make the same mistake again and again? The repetition of something is the existence of a pattern. Patterns repeat themselves in life. Patterns are a reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or observable characteristics of a person, a group, or an institution. When a pattern stops serving us we want to change it. to create that change in behavior, or situation we need to do these three steps: 1) Recognize the pattern through Awareness 2) Stop resisting it through Acceptance 3) Shift through taking Aligned Action Then Rinse and repeat until the new pattern is the one you consciously created.