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Howdy, welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday.
We made it, y'all.
Today, let's talk about the big B,
the elephant in the corporate room, burnout.
The last few years, I've been doing research on burnout.
learning about why it's so common,
but also what causes it.
And I came across the usual,
overworking, lack of sleep, high stress.
However, as someone who loves to work
and is energized by giving to the world,
I knew that the source of my burnout was different.
So I began to get curious.
What I found was this term misalignment burnout,
a type of burnout that's commonly overlooked.
This type of burnout is caused by constantly engaging
in environments and values
that go against our own values and beliefs.
And this creates significant disharmony and disconnection
between our true selves and our professional selves.
And this can be a major cause of stress.
Being an authentic, especially in our vocational pursuits,
can have detrimental effects on our minds and bodies.
Who knew?
I sure didn't.
Took me a while to realize
that I was losing my sense of self in my workplace
and also losing my essence in life force.
I went from being incredibly enthusiastic
in making a change to resentful and cynical
about the state of mental health care
and hopeless that change would never happen.
I can say I definitely experienced this
while working as a psychiatric nurse.
When I graduated from nursing school,
I was eager to revolutionize the mental health care system.
Shortly after, I realized
that it's not exactly a one-woman job.
And also, that type of change doesn't take place
on an individual level.
We have to look at the institution as a whole.
Day in and day out, my personal and professional values
and beliefs were constantly being challenged.
There were things I was asked to do and expected to do
in the name of treatment that I was fundamentally against.
So if you find yourself in a similar predicament
where you're in a career that misaligns
with your own beliefs
or forces you to disconnect from your true self,
here's a few things I started to do
to recover from misalignment burnout.
One, surrounding myself with people
who reminded me of who I am.
Community was and is still really important to me.
There were people in my life
who could sense my disease working in the hospital
and would remind me that I'm a person who is lively,
who's often bright and radiant and full of joy.
And this was incredibly helpful for me
because I had started losing sight of that.
The next thing to try is giving yourself grace.
Sometimes we have to work in certain jobs
in order to survive.
Life is expensive.
Career pivots, especially now, are a privilege and luxury.
Practice that self-compassion muscle
and see if you can offer yourself kindness.
If you need help with that,
check out my self-compassion course in the Headspace app.
Lastly, start to think about
where you would like to be instead.
It's so easy to focus on where you are
and how unpleasant it is.
But something I've found to be helpful
is to write down where I wanna be instead
and how I want my new job to feel.
This helped me to gain perspective,
but also to start redirecting that negative energy
to more productive efforts.
All right, that's it for today.
Let me know if you try these out
over on Instagram at dora come out.
I love hearing from you all.
I'll leave it here for today.
Take care and be well.
