Burnout is a topic that I feel like is tossed around a lot in media, but I have a question for you to ponder.

Do you know what the signs are of burnout?

And maybe even more importantly, do you know what to do if you are starting to feel like you're creeping toward the edge of burnout?

Or maybe you're even already there.

So let's talk about how to spot it and then what to do

if it's invading your life and your happiness. So this time of year, I keep reminiscing on

my bed rest experience because all these things like pulling out

the Christmas decorations and making lists of, lists of groceries that we need keep reminding me of what

it was like to sit on that bed for six months. And it actually was a really joyful time. Like the holidays made it go really fast. Do you

remember? Yeah. No, I do remember that very well. The first three months were brutal.

Like I remember September, August, September, October felt like the longest months of my whole

entire life because I was just stuck and it was like

super warm out. People were like outside enjoying things and I was stuck in bed. But then finally

after Halloween, I remember once the holidays hit, it was like we just were on a fast track to getting

baby here and experienced so many miracles and cool things.

But one of the things that I've been wanting to podcast about because it was astounding to me

how often I heard this was the response that so many women had to me about being on bed rest.

So so many of my friends, so many women, I mean, personal friends, people on Instagram

kept saying the same thing over and over to me, which was, wow, that sounds kind of dreamy

being on bed rest.

Like that actually sounds like a vacation, different iterations and forms of this.

Like, wow, that sounds so nice, actually. And A, my response in the moment was, yeah, it's not

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