Healing from burnout is an endeavor. It's not easy and often takes longer than we want it to. It's also full of blind spots, and mismatched advice. I truly and deeply believe, as a person who DIY's nearly EVERYTHING in life, that you should get help when it comes to healing from burnout.

I know...

“But it’s the company’s fault!” they cry! By they, I mean most of the people posting articles about burnout. It all falls back to the same stat: 80% of burnout is due to the organizational structure and only 20% is due to the individual’s resiliency.

Here’s why...

I'm a reader. A reader reader. I read and miss my train stop 50% of the time I ride the train (which is 4x a week...). I read before bed. I read while watching TV. I read to learn, to research, and to entertain myself.

I read fiction (chick lit), thrillers, and self-help most often. So it's no...

Burnout is the result of long term stress.

That’s the simplest explanation. It doesn’t have to be stress you’re aware of, it can be insidious. It doesn’t all have to be internal stress (like negative self talk, the pressure you put on yourself to succeed, perfectionism,...

When I started FRIED: The Burnout Podcast, I did some research and found almost NOTHING about Burnout in the podcasting space. Now, thankfully, there are multiple options for different views and ways to help yourself through it, that means that no matter who you are, there’s someone who...

I’ve long been uncomfortable with the word healer used to describe a person, especially my person. I entered the healing arts nearly 2 decades ago and that one word has caused discomfort in me since day 1. About two years ago I came across a website where the woman described her pride in...

This week, all sorts of great things are happening. First, tomorrow is the release of the first episode of FRIED: The Ultimate Guide To Burnout Podcast. My first guest is Ashley Rose, a Transformational Life Coach who helps women to transform trauma that is keeping them stuck and burning them...

(AND 5 THINGS I LEARNED THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE)

When I was thick in the throes of burnout, around year 6, I finally realized what was happening. The word burnout made sense to me. I didn’t accept it at first because I ‘had a nice life’ and ‘nothing to complain...

Oh, my people pleasers. Sit with me a minute. Just sit and listen to what I did recently and then laughed at myself.

I was standing and ironing. We just recently got a brand new iron, and I had some shirts and pants to get done for the week. So, I got to it. I set the iron to cotton, waited for...

I was in the car, cruising down the 95 between Providence and New York last week and a book title hit me: People Pleasers Fry Different. I can just see the cover now, bright blue with scratchy font and an illustration of a cast iron frying pan with a woman, in jeans and a t-shirt in snow angel...