From the course: Managing Career Burnout
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Complete the stress cycle
When bouncing back from burnout, we have to deal with the stressors in our life and the stress in our bodies. It's important to acknowledge that we have to handle those two different things differently. We can do the hard work of identifying and mitigating our burnout triggers to regain a sense of agency over our lives, but that might not help much in dealing with the stress itself. To understand how to heal our bodies and minds from the damage that stress does to it, we have to understand how to complete what researcher Emily Nagoski calls the stress cycle. When we face a burnout trigger, a snide comment from a coworker, yet another day stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, or some tough-to-hear feedback from a disappointed client, our bodies respond in a visceral way. Our hearts beat faster. Our breathing becomes shallow, and our brain is flooded with the fight-or-flight stress hormone cortisol. This is our natural…
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