High Achievers & Burnout
You’re a hard worker. You’re successful and in control; many people depend on you. So, when do YOU get to rest?
High achievers, folks who are disciplined and motivated and driven, can achieve great things. But sometimes, that great success comes with a painful cost.
You may feel like you are putting on a constant performing act. You don’t know what else to do, and you certainly don’t want to stop (what if I lose everything I have created?), so you just keep going, and going, feeling like you are climbing a mountain of perfection that gets steeper and steeper. You are chasing an impossibly high standard— until something inside you breaks down.
Maybe you aren’t eating anymore. Or sleeping.
Maybe something small goes wrong with your day, and you have an outburst of rage, or crying, that feels out of control.
Maybe you are lashing out at the people you love, and feel powerless to stop it.
Maybe you feel like you’ve forgotten how to “relax.”
Maybe you are starting to hate yourself, a little.
Many high-achieving folks struggle with issues like burnout and exhaustion. Sometimes the responsibilities feel endless: your time is always split between work or school, parenting or caregiving, church or community activities, time with friends, plus trying to make time for all those daily activities like working out, your hobbies, meal prep…it feels impossible to fit it all in the day!
If you can relate to this, you probably are realizing that you cannot go on like this forever. It’s not healthy, and you are not happy. I want to work with you to tackle a new challenge—the challenge of learning how to rest, relax, and truly enjoy your success. Yes, this might mean learning to release a little bit of control—learning to work with, instead of struggle with, the voices in your head that are driving you to always do more, more, more. I want to help you surround your own hearth with people who love and support you, and fill your own cup with just the right mix of daily joys.