Author: Dustin Palmer
-
How to Stop Burnout Before it Starts
Preventing burnout involves acknowledging that burnout isn’t something that just happens to those with “bad attitudes” as some might say. The first stage of burnout is actually the opposite of that. It’s called the honeymoon stage. This is where we get new roles or responsibilities and are super eager and excited for our work. We…
-
Study On Healthy Leadership and Leader Self Care
From what I’ve seen in my work, leaders often tend to focus on how they can help everyone before themselves. In highlighting how helping yourself can help others, I want to share a research study from 2022 that I ran across from the University of Bremen. There has been a lot of research showing positive…
-
Quick Mindfulness Check In
We often suffer from stress when it isn’t present. We worry about what happened throughout the day and the days ahead. This deprives of what we might be experiencing in the moment and stresses us to the point we are ineffective in solving the problem. Right now, notice if your thoughts are about something that…
-
What is Compassion Fatigue?
Compassion fatigue is a condition that affects those whose roles involve helping others. It can look similar to burnout and even accompany burnout. Despite this, the causes are different and the effects can be, too. Where burnout is a general sense of feeling fatigued or overwhelmed from too high of a workload, compassion fatigue is…
-
What is Burnout?
As the first post at Burnout Prevention Therapy, it only feels right to make it about Burnout and a brief introduction to the subject. Burnout is a response to prolonged exposure to chronic stressors on the job. This affects individuals in 3 primary ways: overwhelming exhaustion, feelings of cynicism, and feeling ineffective or unaccomplished (Maslach…
Burnout Prevention Therapy 