Burnout deep dives: Rest and recovery 3
Today's newsletter focuses on what how you need to rest in burnout recovery
Rest is a fundamental part of the early days in your recovery journey, and 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. In the early days of recovery, I definitely got caught up in my own expectation that rest should be as “productive” and driven as my time at work, 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 good, it’s essential. I’ve also learned the hard way about the importance of taking sick leave. I didn’t take any leave when I was in the thick of it. Let me tell you, I have regrets abut this and it was one of the biggest mistakes I made during the whole burnout period! Without doubt, not taking sick leave and resting up appropriately, it has slowed down my recovery considerably.
In this newsletter, we’ll be covering:
The first three stages of burnout recovery, and where rest comes into this
The mistakes I made, and how you can avoid them
The type of rest you should be doing during early burnout, and how and when to build up the type and different nature of the activities you’re doing in a way that doesn’t jeopardise your recovery
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