Happy July!

Back when I first experienced burnout, one of the biggest feelings was that of being trapped.

I felt like there were zero options.

I couldn’t leave the field. I wasn’t even sure I could leave my job. 

I didn’t see any other ways out.

Ever felt this way?

So many of us have, it’s such a common thing in our field, especially with our high rate of burnout.

And when we feel like that, we ask ourselves questions.

“Why did this happen?”

“Why do I feel this way?”
“Why is it so hard?”

“How did this happen?”

“What can I do to change it?”

But the problem is… all of those questions have one thing in common.

They’re focusing on the wish that things were different.

But they aren’t. 

They are what they are, history has already occurred and can’t be changed.

So we feel trapped when we focus solely on wishing they were different (often we don’t realize that’s what we’re doing but it is…).

HOWEVER… 

There’s another way, a better ques...