Burnout deep dives: Rest and recovery
Thursdays emails throughout August are all about how to effectively use your rest and recovery time in both burnout prevention and recovery
I wish that the UK weather would get the message that it’s the summer, as I’m currently sat here typing this in a cardi whilst rain furiously lashes at my office window! Ignoring the typical British weather, and as it’s August and holiday season, the theme of this month’s deep dives is going to be the very apt topic of rest and recovery in burnout.
I can’t tell you how important it is to factor in adequate rest and recovery time into both your work day and life outside of work. This is absolutely essential for both burnout prevention and burnout recovery.
If you are currently experiencing burnout, then rest is a fundamental part of the early days in your recovery journey. If you get it wrong you will struggle with absolutely everything else that follows subsequently. So many people with burnout find it hard to accept that rest needs to happen, and crucially, rest needs to be just that- rest. I definitely got caught up in my own expectation that rest should be as “productive” and driven as my time at work in the lead up to my burnout, and I’ve had to do an awful lot to undo that pattern of thinking and accept that not only is rest and proper downtime is good, it’s essential.
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