To recover from burnout, shift from fixing to supporting

Changing the question you ask yourself can change your life.

Instead of asking “How can I fix myself?”, ask: “How can I support myself?”

Fixing implies that there’s something wrong or broken in who you are, and supporting suggests that you’re inherently good and lovable. 

Recovering from burnout will require you to stop looking at yourself as something that needs to be fixed, in order to keep performing for everyone and everything around you.

Let me be the person to say this: There is NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. Nothing.

Your burnout is wise.

Your burnout is a signal.

Your burnout is the winter that wants to settle over the earth and helps nature hibernate to prepare for new growth & regeneration. For the TRUE YOU to emerge.

How can you support yourself in the process you’re already in?

How can you allow yourself to need what you need? Like what you like? Dislike what you dislike?

Here’s how to apply this:

Over the next day, pay attention to your thoughts and see if you can catch anything along the lines of “I should be able to do X” or “What’s wrong with me?”

Take a few moments… place your hands somewhere on your body that feels loving and supportive, and ask, “How can I support myself?”

Let me know what happens.