Can Burnout Be a Blessing? with Carrie Severson
Happy Healthy Caregiver
Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, we’re joined by Carrie Severson—caregiver to her husband Gavin and a recognized expert in burnout. Carrie shares how her personal caregiving journey inspired her advocacy work, storytelling, and her podcast, I Saved You. Now, Do the Dishes. We dive into the difference between caregiver burnout and the entrepreneurial burnout Carrie previously experienced and spoke about. She also recounts a shocking experience with a disruptive healthcare professional and how she successfully had them removed from her care team. Plus, Carrie reveals some of her go-to self-care practices, including cold therapy, box breathing, and using music as a powerful healing tool.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Whole Care Network. |
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| 0:40.5 | And thank you for listening to the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:53.1 | Burnout happens when we're not able to properly manage and we have prolonged exposure to |
| 0:59.9 | unmanaged stress, right? |
| 1:01.7 | Which is why caregiving burnout is so common. |
| 1:04.6 | It's not usually just a week in this space, right? |
| 1:08.0 | It's prolonged. |
| 1:09.2 | Are you caring for others while working and trying to live |
| 1:12.3 | your own life? Wondering how to find the time for your own health and happiness. Well, you're in the |
| 1:16.9 | right place. The Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, which is part of the Whole Care Network, is the show |
| 1:22.0 | where real family caregivers share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others. Hello and |
| 1:27.3 | welcome. I'm your host, |
| 1:28.8 | Elizabeth Miller. I'm a fellow family caregiver, a care advocate, a professional speaker, author, |
| 1:34.7 | certified caregiving consultant, and certified senior advisor. If this is your first time listening, |
| 1:39.9 | thank you for being here. This is a show produced biweekly to help family caregivers integrate self-care and |
| 1:46.0 | caregiving into their lives. |
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