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Reflect on the stress you have been experiencing.
How you feel is real.
Make a plan to address this stress and improve your wellbeing.
How do you want to live?
Over the past year, I have conducted many webinars addressing stress and guiding participants toward wellbeing. There has never been a higher level of consciousness surrounding our mental health than now. This will provide us, as individuals and communities, with profound gifts in the coming years. Crisis has a way of pushing our norms and routines with reflection and action.
Let’s face it, we were stressed before March of 2020. We may have even suffered a stress ailment or two. We used busyness, food and drink to numb and push ourselves forward. We played the game of life to society’s standards.
In 2019, The World Health Organization added burnout to its classification of diseases, not as a disease but as something doctors may be seeing in their offices. WHO offers this burnout definition: “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”
At home and work, things may feel unmanageable.
Today, you have the opportunity to redesign, reorganize, and recommit to your life to gain clarity and sanity. This proactive approach to your wellbeing will return benefits to you for many years to come. It will return benefits to your loved ones, your colleagues, your organization, and your community. To learn more about the symptoms of burnout, ways to improve wellbeing, and coaching thoughts read on. To contact me for a free consultation to address your concerns, contact me at [email protected], (518) 301-3593.
Symptoms of Burnout
Know the signs
- Exhaustion (physical and mental)
- Cynicism
- Feeling useless or helpless
- Avoiding
- Everything gets under your skin (anger, irritation, frustration)
- Mind wandering and struggling with concentration
- Sleep is elusive
- Headaches or pain in the stomach/bowels
- Depressed or sadness
- Hating your job
- Overuse of drinking alcohol or food or other comforts
- Need to take more sick days than normal
Coaching thoughts to improve wellbeing
Learn to shift toward wellbeing and become more effective (not less!) and create a plan
- Take a proactive approach to personal wellbeing
- Eliminate energy wasters
- Gain control over thoughts
- Become more self-aware
- Develop positive habits at home and work
- Debunk myths about worthiness
- Develop boundaries
- Connect with the present moment to gain peace and efficiency (mindfulness)
- Cultivate self-compassion
- Take time off to recharge, without guilt
- Get enough sleep (7-10 hours)
- Minimize numbing with alcohol or food that makes you feel worse rather than better
- Find new growth opportunities, renew an interest in learning
- Maintain hope for the future
- New perspective about uncertainty (you can handle it!)
- Move your body
If you are interested in taking a closer look at how you can address burnout and improve your wellbeing, contact me today. I would love to work with you! You are worth the time, attention and resources it takes to be well and stay well. The gift you give yourself will return to you this year and beyond.
Kim Perone, MA, CLC is a Success, Bereavement & Resilience Coach and Mindfulness Trainer at the Center for Clarity, Compassion & Contentment (CENTER4C). A personal strategist, philosopher, and champion for her clients, specializing in stress reduction, mindfulness, work life balance, bereavement, resilience, and authentic success, Kim is a Certified Life Coach, with an Master’s degree in Organizational Communication and author of Finding Your Center: The Case for Clarity, Compassion & Contentment (available on Amazon). It is Kim’s belief that when clarity, compassion, and contentment are present an inspired life is possible.
For more information, feel free to contact Kim at [email protected], (518) 301-3593, www.Center4c.com.
