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😪 Welcome to burnout Britain

🦠 The stormiest waves of the pandemic may be receding – we’re vaccinated, we can do some fun things again, we’re not prisoners in our homes – but what’s left in its wake are countless women who are exhausted

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📌 Frantically trying to stay afloat for nearly 18 months has broken us.

📌 And it’s not only who you’d think – our incredible NHS staff and teachers, those who’ve lost a loved one to Covid – it’s across the board.

📌 It doesn’t take much of a dig into the data to see why

➡️ Employees who are working from home spend two hours per day longer at their desks than before the pandemic, according to NordVPN Teams.

➡️According to Wildgoose, nearly two in five business owners have suffered from exhaustion, anxiety or depression since the pandemic

😟 “We’ve been through a collective trauma and have a lot of stored up grief and anxiety,” says trauma therapist Olivia James.

🗣️ “Our innate resilience has been tested severely, our nervous systems are overloaded and we have no idea when this will finally be over.”

💤 Has the Covid-19 pandemic left you feeling more exhausted?

✖️ Lack of support is a huge problem.

🗣️ “Normally, if someone is suffering, people around them lift that person back up again. But with the pandemic, everyone has been going through trauma, so we haven’t been able to rely on our support networks,” says locum GP Zoe Watson

😓 Burnout is recognised by the WHO as a condition caused by “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”, with symptoms including exhaustion and depersonalisation

🦠 The pandemic has created an environment where this is much more likely to happen

🤔 How can you beat burnout?

Laura Vanderkam, productivity expert, author of "I Know How She Does It", and mother of five has some tips 👇

1⃣ Change how you think about your schedule

Look at all 168 hours of the week and work out where you can best find the 40 hours to do your job

2⃣ If you’re working from home, take a break

It is so easy – and so frazzling – to sit in the same spot staring at a screen all day.

Tell yourself you have to move – be it a walk or some push-ups – by 3pm

3⃣ Manage by task, not time

Stop thinking about work in terms of attendance.

Set three to five ambitious goals for each day and once you’ve crossed them off, consider your work done

4⃣ Don’t be a martyr

Many women say they can’t leave their desk.

But, if something terrible happened to you, your colleagues would probably work out a way to move forward.

Get your head around that concept and you’ll find you can take 15 minutes off

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