Thank you for joining us for episode 408 of Live Happy Now.

Do you ever feel like you've hit a point of burnout that nobody else can fully understand?

Well, today's guest knows exactly what you're going through and what to do about it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm sitting down with Dr. Mary Sanders,

who specializes in energetic healing with an emphasis on positive psychology.

Dr. Mary is on a mission to empower women over the age of 40 to bounce back physically,

emotionally, and energetically from the stresses of balancing work and life.

Today, she talks with me about how burnout affects women, what warning signs we need to be aware of

that indicate we might be burning out on what steps we can take to reclaim ourselves from burnout.

Let's take a listen.

Mary, thank you for joining me on Live Happy Now.

Thank you, Paula. It's my honor sincerely to be a guest of yours. I'm so looking forward to

today's conversation because I have a feeling that you and I are going to tap into some really

interesting topics. We are. And I've been looking forward to having this conversation too because, oh, my gosh,

there's so many things that you and I can talk about.

And I guess that's why you have a podcast because you have so many things that you can teach us.

But today, I really wanted to focus on the topic of burnout because that's something that you address, something that you

handle. And I know that burnout can mean different things to different people. So just to make

sure we're on the same page, can you talk about the clinical definition when you are

describing burnout? Sure, sure. It's a great place to start. From a scientific perspective,

I follow MassLock's burnout inventory. And this researcher has done a phenomenal job breaking down

burnout into essentially three different categories. And the first category is what we are most

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