Recovering From Burnout: How to Get Unstuck and Reinspired

The crazy thing about burnout is, you don’t see it coming. Suddenly you don’t just feel creatively empty, disinterested in the work you do, and sometimes even a little angry or resentful without really knowing why, but you also feel like the bottom dropped out. You feel caught totally off guard, leaving you thinking: What just happened? We were cruising along! We were firing on all cylinders! We were having the season of our lives! Everything seemed fine, and then WHAM! You feel exhausted, angry, inexplicably moody, completely drained creatively, and like everything everyone wants from you is either infuriating or completely overwhelming. Making decisions you know are not that big of a deal become agonizing dilemmas, and worst of all, your efforts to just GET THROUGH IT seem to only make things worse.Burnout is a very real and very challenging state for creatives and entrepreneurs, and I think that we need to bring awareness to why it happens and to share remedies as well as prevention plans so that we can return to a healthy and harmonious creative flow in our work and services.Today’s episode is devoted to acknowledging, understanding, and recovering from burnout, and also implementing preventative practices to avoid burnout in the future. We will be diving into what burnout is and how to spot it coming, understanding why burnout makes us feel stuck, what to actually do (or not do) to effectively recover from burnout, what you can do to help yourself return to your creative flow, and how to mitigate or avoid burnout in the future. If you’ve been through it, and are excited to learn some new and nourishing tools to support your recovery and return to feeling inspired, or if you’re in the thick of it, either feeling those early hints that your creative energy is maybe a bit depleted or fully knowing that you are running on fumes, I’ve got your back. This episode is full of real tools, perspectives, and practices to help you through it with grace and big relief.In this episode, we cover:What is burnout, and how to spot it comingWhy burnout makes us feel stuckHow to recover from burnoutHow to return to feeling creative and inspiredHow to avoid or mitigate burnout in the futureCalled to Bloom Instagram: @calledtobloompodcast https://www.instagram.com/calledtobloompodcast Jen’s Nectar & Bloom Instagram: @nectar_and_bloomhttps://www.instagram.com/nectar_and_bloom Called to Bloom Show Notes:https://www.nectarandbloomfloral.com/blogs/podcast/recovering-from-burnout-how-to-get-unstuck-and-reinspiredThis episode of the Called to Bloom podcast is brought to you by the Poetry of Flowers holistic online floral education: https://www.nectarandbloomfloral.com/pages/courses