Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Digital Diary. I am your host, Hannah Elise. First and foremost, I would like to

apologize for my absence last week, but as we get into today's episode, I hope you will understand why.

And I know that you actually will. I don't even know why I'm saying a hope because every time I've ever had to skip a week of anything, everyone has been, well, mostly everyone,

but like those are the people that matter to me. Everyone has been very kind and understanding and

gives a lot of grace, which I just love and means a lot to me.

But we're back. Hello. How's everyone doing? I hope you're doing well. Obviously, you can read the

title. And today we're going to be talking about something that I have experienced so many times in my life on various scales

of intensity. And this thing is culprit for why there was no episode last week and no video

last week also. Today we're going to be talking about burnout. And one of my favorite topics, I made a

YouTube video about this when I was still in college, so probably two or three, three or four years

ago, somewhere around there. I don't even remember what I said in that, but I mean, I've, a lot has

changed in the last few years, but also a lot of stayed the same with how burnout

affects me. It truly affects everybody differently. And it's hard to say like one blanket statement

or make generalizations about it because it just, it affects everyone differently.

It's triggered by different things for different people and all of that.

It's just very nuanced. So today as I'm talking about this, I'm going to be strictly talking from my own

perspective because obviously I'm the only person that I can speak for. And so if something I say

doesn't relate to you, that's okay. But if it does, then great.

I think that burnout is something that we all have experienced at least once. I think that especially

with the toxic productivity culture that we kind of live in and the grinded out hustle mentality of feeling

like you always have to be doing something. And if you aren't being productive 24-7,

if you're not putting a million things on your to-do list and getting them all done every

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