You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 177.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Hello, hello my friends!

Hi!

No, really, hi!

I'm so happy that you're here and that you want to listen to my podcast and you want to know the difference between giving up and burning out, because that's what we're going to talk about today.

I actually have recorded, I shouldn't say recorded, I have prepared two podcasts on burning out because I've been talking a lot to my students and scholars about it, and I've been playing with it myself a little bit.

I've been talking about the difference between the two and how do we know when we're burnt out or when we're just giving up.

And what is burnout and how do we prevent it from happening?

I am in production mode right now in my life, right? I'm in a creation phase and I'm really not as tuned into myself as I have been for most of my life.

You know, they talk a lot about how self-help is all about indulgence. It's all about, oh, focus on yourself and make yourself better and make sure you're happy and forget about the world.

It makes me laugh when people say that because I think that self-help is the least indulgent thing we can do because it's how we show up in the world.

How we treat ourselves and help ourselves is how we are more able to show up in the world and help others.

I've spent a significant amount of my life trying to figure out my life, trying to figure out myself, trying to understand myself, trying to stop hating myself so darn much.

And I feel like that work has been worth it.

And now I'm really in this creation mode where I'm able to give so much more than I was ever able to do when I was buffering and when I was trying to take care of myself and figure myself out all the time.

And all the drama that goes along with it, all of the, oh, what was me? I'm so fat. I'm so hungover. I'm so broke.

I work so hard, right? All of that self-pity, all of that just prevented me from showing up in the world.

And showing up in the world in the way that I do and the way that so many of my students do and the way so many of my clients do is not about being seen at all.

It's about showing up so we can give. And not for the sake of accolades or for the sake of like altruism.

Oh, aren't I great that I give so much? But for the sake of like honoring that human need to give, it's amazing how gratifying and wonderful that can be.

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