Heading into the Holidays we are going to share more strategies and help to understand and avoid “burn out”. It is extremely common to associate it with our “work” and compartmentalize it as therefore being avoided when we aren’t working, but sometimes it is hidden in small daily things that finally overflow. I love the analogy of it as us having two cups on either end of a scale. One cup is “pouring into ourselves”, the other is what “requires ourselves”. Think input versus output. If our output cup has a constant drip of things being added: social obligations, finishing projects after work hours, kids, going holiday shopping, financial decisions… then it also can be a slow leak from our input cup: lack of sleep, stressing, less time for ourselves and self care, etc. As that one cup is approaching overflowing by and the other cup is leaking faster than it is being filled…. The scales tip. Burn out isn’t overnight but it is a slow drip. When our mind and our body hits burnout it needs to pick priorities based on survival, not your highest wellbeing. That’s when so many of our systems (ie: immune system) get compromised because it simply did not get prioritized from your body running on E.