When I woke up on my 35th birthday, a term I never heard before flashed through my mind.

BURNOUT.

Before I checked the clock, or looked to see who wished me happy birthday, I Googled the word burnout.

It’s when someone experiences a state of emotional overwhelm, paired with physical and mental exhaustion.

I know it well now. I lived it for years. The worst part about it is we do it to ourselves by running ourselves into the ground. We buy into the world’s demands that we need to DO more with our lives each day and if we don’t or can’t, we aren’t successful or worthy.

Burnout is common in entrepreneurs. And due to COVID, so many of us are living with it.

I reached burnout while running a non-profit I created, launched, and ran. I saw successful leaders all around me. The demand for the program was every which way I turned. Instead of pacing myself, putting a waiting list in place, taking care of myself, I worked. Until I couldn’t work anymore.

In my upcoming book release, Unapologetically Enough: Reshaping Success & Self-Love, I share really personal details about how I really reached burnout. And I share the painful experience I went through as I pulled myself out of it.

Knowing those details are about to meet strangers, I’m preparing myself for deeper conversations about burnout, how I still work to balance my feminine energy vs. masculine energy each day, and why I hope more people experiencing burnout take a deeper look at how they are taking care of themselves.

If we reach burnout by DOING too much, it seems to me that we have to DO less to get out of it. At least, that was my experience.

I moved out of burnout by letting myself BE in the moment, BE fully in my feminine energy, and BE okay with doing less.