what happens when you're burntout

Burnout leaves us feeling demotivated, frustrated and overwhelmed. Here's what's happening in your brain -

You think you have to avoid feeling bad, because we’re supposed to feel good. But when you add a layer of “should,” you can’t fully enjoy right now because you’re so focused on where we should be instead.

You beat ourselves up for not being further along, which just creates a viscous cycle that you get stuck in - not doing enough, have to do more. But when that inevitably doesn’t work, you beat yourself up more.

Your to-do list keeps growing and your mind just keeps seeing more things to pile on. Suddenly everything feels urgent - and you feel like you should be doing it all, and for everyone else. You worry about their needs more than your own. It’s really hard to prioritize or know what you should do next because you’re pulled in so many directions.

Which makes it really easy to multi-task, trying to fit everything in, trying to be super productive. You measure the success of your day based on what you were able to accomplish.

But when you have to keep doing more and more and saying yes all the time, you don’t have time to yourself. The first things that usually go are our time for pleasure, fun, sleep, movement/exercise, other hobbies/things you enjoy.

And if you do ever do the things you enjoy, you feel guilty about it because you “should” be working on our goals/work/biz/to-do list.

But your brain is exhausted trying to keep up and feeling behind. So at the end of the day you don’t have the energy to do what you want to do and when you’re unsatisfied you shove your feelings down with tv, food, scrolling on social media.

If you're in this boat, message me. I've lived this burnout life too. I know the way out and I'd be happy to show you.