If you feel emotionally exhausted, aside from sleep, find a group of people that you trust who can kind of rejuvenate you. To be able to laugh about it has this physiological and emotional a response pattern. When you start getting engaged in your work again, the burn out symptoms go down.
Are you exhausted? We are. Between the long hours working from home during a pandemic, the mental load of worrying about the outcome of the election, and the lack of sleep that all of this has brought on, it’s no wonder that we’re tired and stressed.
Emotional exhaustion, as workplace well-being expert Mandy O’Neil explains, is one sign of burnout. She shares antidotes and ways to protect ourselves from experiencing it in the first place. Not having enough time for the people and things you care about can cause burnout. Happiness researcher Ashley Whillans gives us advice on how to find and protect that time.
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