I have been sick from a burnout for 1,5 years now (I'm based in Sweden where this is possible without a loss of income, health insurance and safety). I feel like I am getting stronger and finally healthier but as I grow into a new version of my old productive self, I feel like I am craving for change. I crave almost immediate change as in "get me out of this state, I'm ready to get back out again" but also long term change. I will need a change of work, leave my industry behind or else I will struggle and eventually go under again. As I am, every day, I am working on getting better, unseen by others but also by myself - only after a year has passed I can look back on the time passed and realize how much better I have become. Change in small increments doesn't feel like anything is happening. At the same time, I do a lot of planning for the future, looking around, browsing for options. What this does to me, though, unseen by anyone and even almost undetected by me, is that this laying of groundworks for the future is actually anxiety. I struggle with interospection so it wasn't until a dear, smart friend pointed it out to me that what feels like work is actually a fear of loss of control. So the work I am trying to do now, still mostly unseen, is to overcome my internal stress and anxiety and to put myself at calm that time will eventually change my situation if I let it and that my time will come.
Beautiful notes Katharina. I wish you well in your repair from burnout. It's a lot of unseen work. Take daily notes and you will start to see the little changes add it. I'm doing this. Hearts.
Love this. I’m craving working more IRL with people
I am too! Even just sitting together in a space we’re all working separately - like a library - is a step up from home alone 🤠
I have been sick from a burnout for 1,5 years now (I'm based in Sweden where this is possible without a loss of income, health insurance and safety). I feel like I am getting stronger and finally healthier but as I grow into a new version of my old productive self, I feel like I am craving for change. I crave almost immediate change as in "get me out of this state, I'm ready to get back out again" but also long term change. I will need a change of work, leave my industry behind or else I will struggle and eventually go under again. As I am, every day, I am working on getting better, unseen by others but also by myself - only after a year has passed I can look back on the time passed and realize how much better I have become. Change in small increments doesn't feel like anything is happening. At the same time, I do a lot of planning for the future, looking around, browsing for options. What this does to me, though, unseen by anyone and even almost undetected by me, is that this laying of groundworks for the future is actually anxiety. I struggle with interospection so it wasn't until a dear, smart friend pointed it out to me that what feels like work is actually a fear of loss of control. So the work I am trying to do now, still mostly unseen, is to overcome my internal stress and anxiety and to put myself at calm that time will eventually change my situation if I let it and that my time will come.
Beautiful notes Katharina. I wish you well in your repair from burnout. It's a lot of unseen work. Take daily notes and you will start to see the little changes add it. I'm doing this. Hearts.
I don’t have an answer to the question but I am now thinking about the question 💙
That's a start! : )
Craving the do workshops in person, not online.
Truly. The mess. We want the mess.