Blog Posts
How do I find a better work-life balance?
Whether you’re a student, teacher, sales leader, founder, or even looking for work opportunities, we’re all trying to navigate that tension between work and personal life. Rarely are the two interconnected. And when they are – through remote work, digital nomadism, working with a partner, or simply being so into your work that it becomes a lifestyle – there’s still further tension here.
Why are we all burned out? What can we do about it?
If I am oblivious to the internal drivers within me, the things I ‘need’ to thrive, it follows then that I am likely to miss opportunities to satisfy these drivers. It also follows, that in my bid to achieve, or please others, or fulfil expectations, I might completely neglect these areas – my needs, without even realising.
Symptoms of burnout: founders, leaders, high-achievers, type A’s…what should we look out for?
It doesn’t demand McKinsey style workweeks or PhDs, nor does it exclusively happen to high-achievers and type A’s. Unfortunately, with the current cultural sentiments around anxiety as all part of the “new normal”, burnout has slunk into the background as something we all hear about, but rarely give attention to.
How to calm my anxiety? How embodiment can help
I learned that rather than running from my anxiety, or hating it, finding it irritating, annoying, and beating myself with a stick about it, I should actually, indeed, just accept it. But more than accept it – this wasn’t going to be another way of settling.