Recovery by Switching to Roles and Activities and Away From Tasks

Over the past month or two, after our return from Portugal I’ve been slowly improving and overcoming my burn-out. I’m at a point where I am eager to do certain things again, notice E and Y and my love for them much more again, can get energised from facilitating a workshop with a client, started to do more around the house again. I’ve certainly not put the burnout fully behind me but it definitely feels different. Different from not just the past two years, but also from the burnout build-up in the years before it, and previous cycles of similar introspection. I notice that it is easy to let that sense of feeling better entice me back into the routines that brought me to this in the first place (next to the clear external factors that were in play). That however is something to avoid. Two years ago while working with a psychologist I figured out what to focus more on in order to align the way my mind works better with what I do (wrt exploration, peers, criticism and creativity). A few…