Recovering from Mom Burnout :: Nicole Zasowski [Ep 357]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Every mom will experience burnout. It’s as simple as our energy output exceeds our energy input, but it can be debilitating and discouraging. You may wish for a vacation, or spa day or even just 15 minutes of silence, but what if those typical self-care strategies are out of your reach? Where can you find rest when it seems like your circumstances just don’t allow for any?
“You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.” —Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
This week we talk with Nicole Zasowski, a mom of three, therapist, and author of the new book, What if it’s Wonderful? Through her own life journey that has included deep sorrow and deep joy, Nicole encourages us to fight burnout with regular rhythms of celebration. No, not another party for you to plan, she’s not looking to douse water on burned-out you, but to help you recover joy that has been lost. She gives you an invitation to look at the good God is doing all around you, in every season.
Connect with Nicole Zasowski:- Website: https://www.nicolezasowski.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolezasowskiwriter
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolezasowski/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Heather McVadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside |
| 0:16.5 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:23.5 | And in this episode, number 357, I'm bringing licensed marriage and family therapist |
| 0:29.8 | Nicole Zazowski on the show and she's going to help you feel not alone in your mom burn |
| 0:35.8 | out and she has a solution for us that may be different from anyone you've been given |
| 0:40.8 | before. |
| 0:42.7 | This is not extra to the Christian life. |
| 0:46.8 | This is essential to the Christian life and this is an avenue we've been given to connect |
| 0:52.4 | with God and to celebrate the gift with the giver and really important in recognizing |
| 1:00.9 | that we don't just grow in the dark in those places that are painful but the joy and |
| 1:08.5 | celebration are also an avenue of Christ work in us. |
| 1:13.3 | My VA Stephanie found this great quote from Luminysnicket. |
| 1:18.2 | You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted but |
| 1:24.0 | not cured of your sadness. |
| 1:27.1 | The way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down. |
| 1:34.6 | Nicole is not only a therapist, she is a writer and a speaker and a mom to three, she understands |
| 1:42.1 | the devastation of loss and disappointment in her own journey of infertility and today |
| 1:48.4 | based on that experience and her work as a therapist with clients who are walking through |
| 1:54.3 | burnout after the last few years, she is going to share with us a strategy that's different |
| 1:59.8 | than one you may have been handed before. |
| 2:01.7 | You're often told you need to have self care and think that's a spot A or 15 minutes |
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