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A blog dedicated to recovering from burnout through coping, resilience, and a growth mindset
Growing from Ashes
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Stress is…. Complicated
As someone who is well acquainted with stress, I haven’t understood it very well.
Turns out, stress is a hard construct to measure and fully explain.
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Research shows that positive affect can co-occur with distress.
This means, some of our hardest experiences can also be filled with incredible amounts of meaning.
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Effort vs Achievement
As someone who is recovering from burnout, I’ve had to admit that I’m terrible at effort management.
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Don’t Wait for the Beach to Go Sunbathing
Why your hobbies matter
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Beating Burnout… Or at least trying to…
Burnout and grief suck…
I’ve been on a pretty good upswing for a while, but last week those emotions hit me again. I’m not even 100% sure what triggered them…
All I know is I woke up exhausted and that is the symptom that alerts me to a burnout relapse.
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Emotional Labor and Vulnerability
As one of my wise classmates once said, “our focus should be on the human being, not the human doing.”
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Becoming Lifelong Learners
“I found early on that one of the other biggest detriments to my learning was believing I was smart.”
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Cultivating Culture
The best thing about our business was the culture we had created.
“From day one, I was very intentional about what it would be like to work for us, and I knew I didn’t want the work itself to dictate our atmosphere.”
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Let’s Get this Thing Started!
6 things I took away from my first semester of Grad School.
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Foundational Philosophy
What does it mean to be human?
“The key to lifelong learning is to see everyone you meet as a potential teacher…”
— Adam Grant