Burnout & stress
Learn how to recognize the signs of burnout, develop coping mechanisms, and create a healthier work-life balance. Our contributors provide practical tips and expert advice to help you reduce stress and prevent burnout, ensuring better mental and physical health.
Burnt Out Again? The Hidden Mindset Behind High-Functioning People
"Every mickle mek a muckle." Growing up in Jamaica, many of us heard this proverb used when talking about saving money. Put aside a little today. Put aside a little tomorrow. Before long, it will add...
The Hidden Cost of Holding It All Together
High performers are often praised for their ability to keep going. They are the ones people count on. They lead, solve, manage, produce, organize, build, show up, and make things happen. They are...
How to Avoid Burnout and Finally Prioritise Your Wellbeing, Starting With Your Nervous System
Burnout is at an all-time high, and the standard solutions are not working. In this guide, nervous system and identity coach Amy Kelly shares why burnout is a nervous system problem, not a...
A Nervous System Technique for Relaxing, Releasing, and Letting Energy Move Through
There are moments when something rises inside us. An emotion, a memory, a wave of sensation, and the body reacts before the mind can make sense of it. The shoulders lift. The breath tightens. The jaw...
How Editing Your Leadership Identity Reduces Strategic Capacity
Many leaders work hard to look polished. They want to appear calm and strong under pressure. People often think this calm look means a leader has a high capacity for work. But often, that polish is just...
Why Mindset Work Alone Won't Heal You and the Three Layers of Transformation Nobody Talks About
You've done the therapy. Read the books. Hired the coach. Journalled until your hand cramped. You understand your patterns, you can trace them back to their origins, and yet, when the money arrives...
Why Knowing Burnout Isn't Healing It
You have read the books. You have done the work. So why are you still exhausted? Because understanding burnout is not the same as healing burnout. You have solved harder problems than...
The Hidden Link Between Financial Stress and Workplace Violence in Healthcare
In healthcare, we often separate clinical care from the realities of everyday life. We treat symptoms, stabilize conditions, and manage behaviors, but sometimes overlook what is happening beneath the...
Why Your Nervous System Determines Whether You Follow Through on Your Goals
Do you ever feel like you know what you want, but just can’t get yourself to follow through? People often assume they need more discipline. But many actually need a nervous system capable of holding more stress...
Why High-Functioning Employees Are Burning Out In Silence
“Too much hurry bruck pot.” This Jamaican proverb warns that excessive rushing eventually leads to damage. Yet in many workplaces today, speed, urgency, and constant output are rewarded as signs of commitment...
Navigating Burnout Through a Chinese Medicine Perspective
In states of burnout, the body and mind have disconnected. This can be hard to navigate as our capacity to see and feel what’s happening to us is limited. Distressing symptoms such as insomnia, fast racing thoughts...
How Will Stress Manifest in Your Body?
70% of chronic diseases are caused by stress, according to many studies published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Why We Keep Pushing Through and Secretly Wait for a Reason to Stop
There’s a pattern I keep noticing. Not in what people say, but in how they live, in the decisions they delay, in the way they push through things that clearly aren’t working, in how long they stay in...
Miriam Putnam Unlocks the Science to Permanently Handle Burnout
There’s a topic everyone knows about, most have experienced, and many have tried to solve. Burnout. Burnout is real. It has real effects on the body, mind, and spirit, and can greatly impact your...
Chronic Back Pain is Becoming Increasingly Common and How Can Naturopathic Therapy Help Naturally?
Back pain is no longer a condition associated only with older adults. Today, more people experience chronic spinal pain during their most active years of life, often as a result of sedentary work, chronic stress...
The Real Reason High-Achievers Can’t Switch Off with Work-Life Boundaries and What to Do About It
A high-achiever is in an important work call with seventeen browser tabs open, Teams notifications coming through, half-listening for the Amazon delivery, wondering whether they have anything for lunch...
