Ep. 345: The 12 Stages of Burnout and How to Get Out of It
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When was the last time you woke up feeling like you were excited to dive into your day? If you're not sure, you might be suffering from burnout.
In this week's episode, I'm sharing the 12 phases of burnout (as developed by psychologists!) and talking about why I think—as hand raisers and yes sayers—we're especially prone to burning ourselves out.
I'm also sharing one of my favorite super-easy-to-start-using tools for beginning to move yourself beyond burnout.
What I Said:
"The answer to moving beyond burnout is never that you need to work harder."
"If we say ‘yes’ without saying ‘no,’ then we are just saying ‘yes’ to everything, and that’s not going to work"
"We often hang out in the early stages of burnout and don’t think there is anything wrong with that."
"Moving forward does not mean we have to sacrifice ourselves.”
Those Timestamps
04:30 - The 12 phases of burnout
06:35 - Excess of ambition
08:30 - displacement of conflict
09:46 - Denial of problems
10:57 - Getting out of the early stages of burnout
12:25 - Moving forward and chill out at the same time
16:01 - Start practicing a pause
19:11 - Those (entertainment) systems are working against us.
Show Notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to raise your hands say yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about helping you have a |
| 0:05.2 | life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Find out more and dive deep into |
| 0:10.2 | the archives at Tiffany Hahn.com and make sure you're following me over on Instagram at the Tiffany |
| 0:15.1 | Han. And if you're ready to get started toward that life you're craving, go to Tiffanyhan.com |
| 0:19.9 | slash quiz to take your free |
| 0:21.6 | agency archetypes quiz. You're going to find out why you're getting stuck, where you're |
| 0:26.5 | giving away your power, and how to move forward without having to rewrite your entire life. |
| 0:32.3 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:34.8 | Hey, y'all, it's Tiffany. Welcome back to this week's Raise Your Hand Say Yes. I am bringing you another vintage episode and this one is all about burnout. And I thought that it would be interesting to revisit this because when I recorded this episode, it initially aired last year. Burnout was something that it felt like was starting to be talked |
| 0:57.1 | about more and more in the kind of modern everyday realm. And the World Health Organization |
| 1:03.1 | had just classified it as a diagnosis. And so in this episode, you're going to hear me walk |
| 1:09.0 | through the different stages of burnout. |
| 1:13.3 | But and the reason that I am replaying this episode now is I think that this year has handed us a lot more burnout. |
| 1:23.7 | And this is something that we talk about a lot over in the inner circle. |
| 1:26.7 | And it just feels like it's really useful to get this reminder more often than we think we might need it. |
| 1:34.6 | That for a lot of us, we are already in burnout before we realize it. |
| 1:41.9 | And once you hear me walk through the different stages of burnout, you might realize, like, |
| 1:47.2 | oh, burnout, maybe in these less extreme stages, has actually become my norm. |
| 1:56.4 | And the idea of feeling like you are riding a unicycle and juggling plates with your hair on fire |
| 2:03.3 | on a tightrope and the kids and the dog and the bet, right? |
| 2:09.4 | Maybe there is a better way. |
| 2:11.6 | And of course, I think there's a better way. |
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