Ep 12: Spiritual Encouragement for the Emotionally Burnt Out

Are you exhausted… but not just physically?In this episode, my husband Polydoros and I are talking about burnout — what it actually is, why so many of us (especially young adults and parents) are feeling it, and how it’s quietly affecting our relationships, our homes, and even our walk with Christ.While the term originally described workplace stress, many of us are experiencing it in parenthood, marriage, ministry, and daily life. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or like you’re running on empty, this episode is for you.You don’t have to carry it alone. And Christ is the only true treatment and prevention plan for burnout in our lives.If this episode resonated with you, please follow the podcast and share it with someone who may be encouraged. 🙏Always remember to keep Christ first. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! ☦️TIMESTAMPS00:00 – Introduction00:47 – What is Burnout?04:29 – Signs of Burnout14:33 – How Burnout Impacts Our Relationships17:14 – How Burnout Impacts Our Relationship with Christ20:33 – Bible Verses on Burnout24:06 – How to Navigate Burnout Through ChristRESOURCESMatthew 11:28-30Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.Isaiah 40:28-31So then, have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the God who created the ends of the Earth, neither hungers nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to those who do not grieve. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the elect shall be without strength. But those who wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not hunger.Jeremiah 31:25I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.Psalm 72 (73): 26-28My flesh and my heart may fail, O God of my heart; and God is my portion forever. For behold, those who keep themselves far away from you shall perish; you destroy away from you all who act unfaithfully. But as for me, it is good to cling to God, to put my hope in the Lord, that I may proclaim all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion.Galatians 6:9And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.