Managing Stress and Recovering from Burnout with Jonathan Hoover

The Alli Worthington Show

Alli Worthington

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Uplift app is here! Try it free for 30 days. We're in our health and wellness series. And today we're talking about our emotional health or emotional wellness, especially emotional wellness for Christians. Why pushing through will backfire and what to do instead. I’m re-airing one of your all-time favorite episodes with a pastor and psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Hoover. He’s pulling back the curtain on stress and burnout, plus he’s showing us the surprising difference between self-awareness and self-absorption and why knowing that line changes everything. Because here’s the truth: functioning isn’t thriving. If you’ve ever felt numb, snappy, or just plain stuck, this conversation will give you the tools to move from survival mode back into a grounded, God-led life. Listen in to learn more: (02:15:) - Breaking the Myth That All Burnout is Work-Related (13:20) - The Different Phases of Burnout (17:03) - How to Manage Our Stress to Recover From Burnout (19:45) - Signs We May Be Susceptible to Burnout That We Should Keep an Eye Out For WATCH ALLI ON YOUTUBE Links to great things we discussed: Jonathan’s Book: Stress Fracture Jonathan’s Song Recommendation: My Life Is in Your Hands Jonathan’s Book Recommendation: The Power of Habit Jonathan’s TV Show Recommendation: Frasier Jonathan’s Product Recommendation: AirTag I hope you loved this episode! 🎉 Don't forget to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so you’re always in the loop. And hey, while you're at it, why not pop over to our YouTube channel and check us out? If you're feeling the love, leave a review and sprinkle some stars—your support truly means the world to me! Take care, and keep shining bright! xo, Alli

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I think it's a mistake to say your burnout comes from your work. I would say your burnout comes from a
0:06.2	combination of the things that are draining you. Welcome back. We're in our health and wellness
0:17.9	series. And today we're talking about our emotional health,
0:21.5	or emotional wellness, especially emotional wellness for Christians. Why pushing through will
0:27.2	backfire and what to do instead. I'm re-airing a very popular episode with a pastor and
0:33.0	psychologist Dr. Jonathan Hoover. We're talking about stress. We're talking about burnout beyond work, what it
0:39.0	really is. We're talking about self-awareness versus self-absorption in the line that matters.
0:44.9	What scripture models for recovery? Think about Elijah. And simple daily moves to lower stress
0:50.5	and build resilience. We all know that just functioning isn't thriving. So if you've ever felt
0:55.1	numb or snappy or stuck, this will get you out of that mode and back to a grounded, God-led life.
1:02.2	But before we get started, I want to tell you. Okay, let's dive in. Jonathan, first up,
1:10.4	why do you think so many Christians don't pay any attention to emotional health?
1:14.4	What's going on?
1:15.3	You are the expert that can talk about this.
1:18.7	Wow.
1:19.0	I hope it's not quite true that we don't pay attention to our emotional health, but I think sometimes as Christians, one of the things that we struggle with is we pay attention to our faith
1:30.2	at the expense of our emotional health. And I think there's a wonderful, benevolent, you know,
1:37.8	thing underneath that. Hey, I want to, I want to serve God. And I want God to, and it's sort of like,
1:42.4	God's going to take care of my emotions. I just have to do all the things. I'm going to do all the things and God's going to take care of my emotions. I just have to do all the things.
1:45.5	I'm going to do all the things and God's going to take care of my emotions. Well, there's a sense in
1:48.6	which, you know, the scripture tells us that God's peace is there for both our logic and our heart, right?
1:53.6	And God's peace will guard your hearts and minds. And so that's true. But on the other hand,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alli Worthington, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Alli Worthington and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.