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Hello and welcome to this week's podcast. Today I've brought a guest on who is a specialist

in something that I really

think we need to talk about this year especially because I think a lot of people are suffering

from it. And that's procrastination, overwhelm, burnout and how trauma is linked to that. So I'm here

with Lisa Smith, who helps people who are struggling with procrastination over

when burnout to find strategies to help them in the moment, but also to find ways to get rid of it

for good, which is obviously what we all want. Now, this year, I got diagnosed as suffering

from stress, which for me, I never feel stressed. I'm one of those people

that really high functioning can carry on. I've been, I've talked on here before about how I

have suffered from anxiety before and depression and high functioning. So I often don't notice I am.

And that's exactly what happened with stress. I wasn't stressed because

anything particularly bad was happening. I was stressed because I was doing a lot. And although I

love doing a lot and I work really well doing a lot, what I didn't realize is that my body didn't.

My body was like saying, no, you're doing way too much here. We'd really like you to stop for a little bit. And I was like, no, let's just carry on. And actually, they said that it is a, it is a form of stress. And even if you're not feeling stressed and you're feeling happy, you can still feel it. So, Melissa, how common is it that people are coming to you saying they're suffering from burnout and

they might not even know they have burnout? So common. So here's what people primarily come to me for.

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