Balance and Wellness Coaching

𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 🤕

When I experienced burnout in the past, I genuinely believed it was a sign of weakness.

Society celebrates the ones who stay up late burning the midnight oil.
The ones who rush through meals just to get back to work.

So when I hit a wall, I thought: why can’t I keep up? 😢

Then I came across research that changed how I saw everything.

There is a direct correlation between lack of recovery time and increased health issues.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳.

Because resilience isn’t about how much you can endure.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞.

You can push through hard things - most of us can. But if you’re not building in genuine recovery between those hard things, you’re not building resilience. You’re just depleting yourself more slowly.

Since then, I’ve tried to be much more intentional about pausing.

Not just collapsing at the end of the day, but actually recovering - moving my body, stepping outside, protecting time that genuinely restores me.

It changes alot!

I’m still trying! 💪

Have you been pausing?