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How To Not Burn Out: Some tips

1. Talk about what makes you feel stressed with a human who will listen with respect and understanding.
2. Talk about what makes you feel joy with a human who will listen with respect and understanding.

3. Go slower.

4. Build a habit of noticing how you react to things, this is called mindfulness.
5. Be kind to yourself. In small doses treat yourself with the same kindness you normally reserve for others you love and care about.
6. Realize you didn’t cause this, it’s not your fault.

7. Realize you don’t have to heal alone, because you’re not alone in feeling this way.
8. Realize burnout is an opportunity for growth. It’s a time for new values, new perspectives, new support, and maybe new environments.

9. Forgive yourself for not acting on these stressors earlier, this is completely normal.
10. Realize there is a part of you larger than the part that suffers, and this part is what heals you. You always have this, there’s always the option to choose self compassion.
(Ok, normally I’d say “11. Stop reading lists and go out and live,” but I feel like I’m a roll)

11. But seriously, get out of your head and into your body. Food, exercise, walks, sex, baths, whatever. Thinking about feelings rarely makes them change.
12. Realize burnout is a systemic issue. Our work is breaking our hearts. Our “professionalism” was first crafted by dudes with no emotional intelligence. Our jobs deny our humanity, and that causes burnout.
13. Realize you’re not alone again. Last polled 74% of Americans said that their jobs and money was the #1 stressor in their life.
14. Know that it’s a hugely American issue. The ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) lists burnout as an issue (code Z73.0).

But the DSM (our American diagnosis manual) makes no mention of it. So there’s that.
15. Take that sadness and weariness and get empathetic for other folks burning out. We can fix this together but we need our fire to motivate us, not turn us into ash.
Update: Oh my, I've never had a tweet blow up. Check out my site (link in bio) for my professional work. Expect more burnout related tweets forthcoming, though most likely not nearly as popular as this one.
16. For everyone responding that they don’t have someone to listen:

It doesn’t have to be a lover or a close friend. A stranger will do, as long as they’re a human, and there’s lots of us. You’re not alone.

We all have the capacity to care and be cared for.
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