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Navigating the Journey of Healing and Coping Mechanism Changes
This chapter delves into the struggle of altering unhealthy coping strategies, highlighting the comfort that familiar habits provide despite their drawbacks. It emphasizes the significance of gradual changes, self-compassion, and the need for support systems in overcoming burnout.
“We sometimes resist our own healing because it feels like punishment,” says Sarah Vosen in this latest #sarashares episode of FRIED. Today, she discusses the challenge of healing, which despite being good for us, doesn’t necessarily always feel great. And because of this, we are tempted to self sabotage, retreat back into our old coping mechanisms, and continue to sacrifice long term growth and greater reward for smaller, short-term rewards—or merely the illusion thereof. You may recognize yourself in a few of the scenarios that Sarah shares to illustrate how we can backslide down the slippery slope of healing. She also shares her own journey toward healthy eating and forming a new relationship to alcohol, and the incremental success in forming new habits.
As with everything in nature and the universe, contraction is as natural an element of the growth and healing process as expansion. So, on our healing journey, for every step forward there may be a retreat back to old, comforting habits, especially when we’re physically and emotionally exhausted. That’s why we must take it slow and steady, show ourselves grace and reward, and look for and accept support. Sarah discusses the subject of “revenge procrastination,” and the big questions that lay at the heart of our resistance to change.
With vulnerability and courage, Sarah continues to share her own journey with us so that we can learn more about what it means to heal from burnout and take bold action along our own path.
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Dahlia blooming: https://www.instagram.com/thesusanakennedy/reel/C4IFC-wA3pN/
Scheduling acupuncture with Sarah near Minneapolis, MN:
https://acusimple.com/access/7008/#/appointments/8888/list/42506/2024-03-14/
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friedtheburnoutpodcast/
Newsletter sign up for office hours: https://www.caitdonovan.com/newsletter-office-hours
1:1 coaching consults for Sarah: https://caitdonovan.as.me/coachwithsarah
1:1 coaching consults for Cait: https://caitdonovan.as.me/initial
Connect with Cait:
Initial Call with Cait: bit.ly/callcait
Initial Call with Sarah: bit.ly/callsarahv
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