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3 Mindset Shifts for Burnout Recovery

Listen, I know my strengths.

I also know my … un-strengths?

Like, I will NEVER — let me repeat, NEVER — be a Zero Inbox Person.

I will never price-shop on something we need for our life (like new tires! the best coffee maker! compare the per price unit for something I’m buying at the grocery store!).

I will never be a person who checks all their bank balances and investment accounts everyday.

I like my spaces tidy, but I can also exist among the inevitable mess of life with kids.

I will always choose stealing away for any 15 min to daylong chunk of free time I can muster to write, rather than unpack those last 4 boxes in my office from our move 8 months ago.

I will also never spend extra time on tricky, annoying tech problems beyond what gets me to: “good enough, that will do.”

And I’m great with all of these facts, because the world does not need me to actually do or worry or stress about any of these particular things. I’m sure of it.

So with that in mind, I *finally* moved over an old podcast of mine, called Beyond Balance, over to Substack (also: an un-strength of mine: paying $12/month to my old podcast host for 18 months while publishing no new episodes 😆).

I launched Beyond Balance in early November 2021, with a newborn baby and an old dusty podcast mic I plugged into my computer. I’d find 2 hours of an empty, quiet house and just churn on my deep desire to have conversations like these. The episode I share here today is the product of those first 2 hours.

I would say that 98% of my creativity has no business plan.

Beyond Balance is part of that creative majority. I recorded episodes on and off for two years. There was never any coherent arc to the thing or even like a direct invitation to folks who enjoyed the episodes to come work with me as a client.

I just wanted to teach and talk and connect and the tech is shoddy at best and the cadence of episode releases was sporadic (not unlike this Substack 🤣), but I still stand by this work!

There are some real nuggets of wisdom, connection, and grace sprinkled throughout these episodes.

So while the whole archive is now officially uploaded to Substack, so you can find it (somewhere? I couldn’t explain it much more than what I just said ;)) and binge listen if you want (I won’t stop you!).

But I thought for the next few posts, I’d highlight a few of my favorite episodes with a some fresh perspective and commentary.

First up, the first full episode I ever did of the pod, called “Burnout Recovery: Three Mindset Shifts.”

HERE IS THE EPISODE LINK tech🫠:

And it’s funny, three years later it still hits (“slaps?” what do kids say these days?).

I would say, all of the things I’ve been teaching in these last dozen years are pretty much summed up into this one episode. Not bad for a primer on a decade’s worth of work!

Have a listen and let me know what you think in the comments — any takeaways? Any followup questions? What did it bring up for you?

you’re doing a good job too,
Cath

PS — fun fact. when I was naming Beyond Balance, I wanted to actually call it “Let’s Sit Together,” but it didn’t sound corporate / serious enough, I thought. 🤣 And this was fall 2021, so I was doing a LOT of Zoom-based corporate wellness workshops and talks about stress and burnout and “work/life balance.” Note to self: Trust your gut. Love sitting here with you, always.