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Avoiding Burnout
Many of us struggle with stress, overwork, anxiety, exhaustion, and other negative experiences from time to time, sometimes in the wake of unpleasant events, but often simply due to the pace and expectations of 21st-century life. While feeling overwhelmed or drained is a common human experience, when do these feelings become something more than a temporary state of being and start drastically impacting your life? How do you know when you have reached the tipping point into burnout? And once you have crossed that threshold, how do you find peace and equilibrium again?
This is what you will explore in the 10 lessons of Avoiding Burnout. With your presenters, Serena Wadhwa and Lisa Page, you will examine the nature of burnout, from symptoms that trigger it to personal factors that contribute to burnout, such as personality and unhealthy coping strategies. You are also invited to answer questions that will help you assess your own level of coping in different areas that can help you get through challenging situations. You will learn the crucial steps that allow you to catch yourself from falling into burnout, build greater resilience, and manage life’s everyday stressors.
As you progress toward the final destination of these lessons - a healthy, balanced life - you will also focus on behaviors such as setting boundaries, managing negative thinking, and learning assertiveness - all invaluable skills that you can develop to keep yourself going during tough times. As you will discover, no matter how overwhelming it may feel, burnout is manageable, and it is preventable. With the proper skills you can come out of a state of burnout even stronger than you were before you entered it and learn how to avoid it in the future.
This is what you will explore in the 10 lessons of Avoiding Burnout. With your presenters, Serena Wadhwa and Lisa Page, you will examine the nature of burnout, from symptoms that trigger it to personal factors that contribute to burnout, such as personality and unhealthy coping strategies. You are also invited to answer questions that will help you assess your own level of coping in different areas that can help you get through challenging situations. You will learn the crucial steps that allow you to catch yourself from falling into burnout, build greater resilience, and manage life’s everyday stressors.
As you progress toward the final destination of these lessons - a healthy, balanced life - you will also focus on behaviors such as setting boundaries, managing negative thinking, and learning assertiveness - all invaluable skills that you can develop to keep yourself going during tough times. As you will discover, no matter how overwhelming it may feel, burnout is manageable, and it is preventable. With the proper skills you can come out of a state of burnout even stronger than you were before you entered it and learn how to avoid it in the future.
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January 28, 2022
Not a fan of the fatphobia.
August 20, 2022
Well... This was not helpful for me.
April 12, 2023
Chock full of vague and unhelpful ideas, Avoiding Burnout is an series of audio lessons that attempt to help you with the side effects of living an intense, modern life.
The advice is mostly common sense stuff that goes along the line of reducing stress. What really got to me, though, were the unfounded anecdotal stories used to support ideas. For example:
I know two different people who had seemingly benign symptoms. One had an itchy scratchy spot on his back that he didn't think a lot of. He would scratch it on occasions but made the decision that it wasn't a big deal and never had it checked out. Then one day he went to the doctor because he had a persistent cough that he couldn't shake. The doctor found the itchy scratchy spot on his back, did a biopsy, and it turned out to be cancer. Because he had waited so long, the cancer had metastasized and he lived only about another 8 months.
Several of these stories were used to support the notion that stress is a contributing factor to many types of cancer. Yet the link was never established in these stories. It's just people who got cancer, and happened to have stressors in their lives (which could be anybody).
Audible originals tend to be hit or miss, and this one was definitely a miss.
The advice is mostly common sense stuff that goes along the line of reducing stress. What really got to me, though, were the unfounded anecdotal stories used to support ideas. For example:
I know two different people who had seemingly benign symptoms. One had an itchy scratchy spot on his back that he didn't think a lot of. He would scratch it on occasions but made the decision that it wasn't a big deal and never had it checked out. Then one day he went to the doctor because he had a persistent cough that he couldn't shake. The doctor found the itchy scratchy spot on his back, did a biopsy, and it turned out to be cancer. Because he had waited so long, the cancer had metastasized and he lived only about another 8 months.
Several of these stories were used to support the notion that stress is a contributing factor to many types of cancer. Yet the link was never established in these stories. It's just people who got cancer, and happened to have stressors in their lives (which could be anybody).
Audible originals tend to be hit or miss, and this one was definitely a miss.
August 8, 2022
I might have given this audio course 5 stars but it started off real slow... and kind of clunky. I think it bogged down at first my all the citations of various experts. But around halfway through it really picked up.
I think I will recommend this audio course to a couple of people I know. I might read this ausio course again, just to make sure I got it right.
I think I will recommend this audio course to a couple of people I know. I might read this ausio course again, just to make sure I got it right.
July 6, 2024
I like how the start by explaining whats physically happening. The explaination was clear and easy to follow.
I listen to the audio version of this lecture. There were a number of narrators or lecturers. I find the first one to be slightly robotic and hard to follow. But the second one was much.
I found the suggestions interesting and useful but not ground breaking.
I listen to the audio version of this lecture. There were a number of narrators or lecturers. I find the first one to be slightly robotic and hard to follow. But the second one was much.
I found the suggestions interesting and useful but not ground breaking.
November 7, 2024
This is definitely one of the better books on dealing with recognizing, understanding, and dealing with or even possibly preventing burnout.
It’s a great length and was easy to understand without becoming boring.
It’s a great length and was easy to understand without becoming boring.
January 29, 2022
This is a great book, icludes advice and proper scientific information about the topic.
Also offers great information about how to fight and avoid burnout.
Also offers great information about how to fight and avoid burnout.
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