Joanna Gaines was “full, but running on empty” as she battled burnout
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
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In a personal essay for the winter issue of her Magnolia Journal, Joanna Gaines opened up about her experience with burnout. While expressing deep gratitude for all the ways she and her family have been blessed, she writes: “I knew I couldn’t keep going the way I have. It’s hard to explain how I was feeling. I was grateful beyond measure, but exhausted. Loved, but feeling unworthy. Full, but running on empty. And because my world kept me busy, I could still feel the wheels of my life humming. What became harder to tell is where they should be headed.”
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Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, November 3, 2022. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:13.9 | From Psalm 37, 7, Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. |
| 0:20.3 | Joanna and Chip Gaines are two of the best-known evangelical Christians in popular culture. |
| 0:26.4 | Their long-running home improvement show, Fixer Upper, was one of HGTV's highest-rated |
| 0:31.7 | franchises ever and was nominated for two primetime Emmys. |
| 0:36.4 | The couple has expanded into restaurants, home decor, a realty company, and a TV network. |
| 0:43.0 | However, in a personal essay for the winter issue of her Magnolia Journal, |
| 0:48.1 | Joanna opened up about her experience with burnout. |
| 0:51.2 | While expressing deep gratitude for all the way she and her family have been |
| 0:55.7 | blessed, she writes, and I quote, I knew I couldn't keep going the way I have. It's hard to |
| 1:01.9 | explain how I was feeling. I was grateful beyond measure, but exhausted, loved, but feeling |
| 1:08.7 | unworthy, full, but running on empty. |
| 1:12.2 | And because my world kept me busy, I could still feel the wheels of my life humming. |
| 1:17.8 | What became harder to tell is where they should be headed. |
| 1:21.7 | In quote, in writing her memoir, which is set to be released on November 8th, |
| 1:26.6 | she was able to reflect on her life in a way |
| 1:29.5 | that made her more intentional about being present in the moment. She says, when I look back next time, |
| 1:36.6 | I don't want to see a kind of kaleidoscope life out of focus and jumbled. Instead, she continues, |
| 1:43.9 | I want to live the next season of this beautiful |
| 1:46.4 | life in focus. Joanna Gaines is a committed believer who experienced burnout in the midst of great |
| 1:53.2 | success. She's not the first, nor will she be the last. Job, in his travails, comes to my mind |
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