We all want our kids to grow up safe and healthy so we show them how and we tell them with honest

conversations that let them know what we expect. That's especially important when it comes to alcohol

and other drugs. Kids need to know that dangers and how to avoid them and when it comes to

pain medications, opioids. They need to know that they should never be taken without a prescription

and never shared with friends or family. It's dangerous and illegal. So talk with your kids

because when you talk, they hear you. You will come back much more self-confident, much more

focused and you might realize the thing that you thought you needed to be doing really in the

bigger scheme of things is not the most important thing that needs to get done. But even if it needs

to get done, you're going to be able to do it in less time now because you're going to be more

focused and you're going to be able to calibrate the amount of effort you give to it to what it really

demands. In my experience, when we're really tired or we've really been pushing it really when

we've hit burnout, we don't do a very good job calibrating the amount of energy and effort

to what something really deserves. Let me try and say that differently. We get caught in this

perfectionistic sense of everything needs 110%. When actually the task may only really need a 60%

but when we're really burned out, we can't really calibrate that to know that doing this at 60%

is actually more than enough and gives us more space. But if we took the break first, we'd see that

and then we actually can have gotten the break in and still get the thing done.

Welcome to Therapist Uncensored. Building on decades of professional experience, this podcast

tackles neurobiology, modern attachment and more in an honest way that's helpful in healing

humans. Your session begins now with Dr. Anne Kelly and Sue Marriott.

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