I'm Sari.

And I'm Haley.

And this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamirk Radio.

Today we're talking about burnout and how to tell if you're really burned out or just bored.

We're going to cover what the symptoms of burnout are and how to recognize them,

why it's so easy to confuse burnout and boredom, and three questions you can ask yourself in

order to use sewing and creative activities to move past both boredom and burnout. So this conversation

was partly inspired by a really great book that I read called Burnout by Dr. Emily

Nogoski and Amelia Nogoski. And I'll be sharing more about some of the insights that I've learned from

that book and how they might apply to our creative lives. So I'm really looking forward to this

conversation today. And we're going to start with our icebreaker as always. Today's icebreaker

comes from a Seamark brand ambassador, Carrie.

And Carrie asks, what percentage of your wardrobe is handmade? Do you ever feel guilty purchasing a

clothing item, you know you could have easily sewn yourself? What do you think, Haley? Do you have that

kind of guilt? Oh, not so much anymore, I would say. I think to answer the first question,

I think that about maybe 30% of my wardrobe is handmade, but that 30% those are the items that are

in rotation the most, which is a good thing probably tells me that I'm on the

right track with my things that I'm making. I think that I used to feel more guilty about

purchasing things that I could have made. But I think that that kind of guilt kind of sucks the joy out of sewing for me because

my why behind my sewing, and this is different for everyone, is not to be totally self-sustaining

when it comes to my clothing. My why is creative joy. And I think that if I let that like material need get in the

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