Hello, everybody. I wanted to hop on for a little mini

spur of the moment episode here to talk all about

burnout, the science behind it,

and how to manage it, because this is something that I did the deepest of dives onto for two weeks.

Yes, I have been working for myself and doing this podcast full time for two and a half years

and I recently took my first ever break slash vacation and it

wasn't so much of a vacation as it was like getting serious and drilling down about

why I was so burned out saying this out loud loud, I'm like, well, you never took a vacation.

Anyway, but I really wanted to figure out why I was so burned out, why I was struggling with

stress and feelings of being overwhelmed and I kind of wrote

about this on Instagram before I took my time off and what I was writing about was

just that I knew that I was struggling with burnout because I had talked to my therapist about it.

And she said Shannon, the difference between depression and burnout is that with depression you have the bad feelings of self-worth, you're exhausted exhausted you don't want to get out of bed you feel very

hopeless and burnout is kind of more of this you're upset about institutions like you're upset about

structures and I don't mean like you know top down from

the government and Congress but more so I kept having all of these thoughts where I was exhausted

and so frustrated that it seemed like the exhaustion would never end.

Even the tiniest thing, like breakfast, the idea of making breakfast in the morning,

I felt like I could cry because I would wake up and I'd be like great now I'm hungry

now I have to make breakfast I open up my fridge I look at all this shit I haven't cleaned out yet and then like I feel bad that I haven't done that that's another thing I have to do.

I have to cut up all of these vegetables and crap. I have to put it together in the frying pan.

Then I have to clean the frying pan and then I have to put it all away and I have to do that two more times

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