Recovering from Burnout
A$22.00
What recovery actually involves, and how to tell whether it is happening. A 50-page guide to the recovery of capacity, pacing without boom and bust, the psychological side of recovery, and going back to work without returning to the same pattern.
Description
Burnout recovery is possible. But it is rarely as simple as resting until you feel better.
A 50-page guide to what recovery can involve, what helps at different points, and how to rebuild without repeatedly outrunning your capacity. Written by a psychologist, and designed to be read while depleted.
- Why rest is necessary and rarely sufficient — what genuinely switching off means, and when “just switch off” is not adequate advice.
- A practical map of recovery — five different jobs rather than five stages, with two fictional composite examples showing how the map looks across a life.
- Pacing, and the trap of the good day — boom and bust, three currencies drawing on one account, and how to increase without crashing.
- Telling whether you are actually getting better — measuring the floor rather than the ceiling.
- The psychological side — guilt, confidence, fear of returning, grief, anger, cynicism, and professional identity.
- The workplace, and going back — the conditions that matter most, and returning without returning to the same pattern.
Plus two worksheet pages, a clickable contents page, and references and further reading.
An educational resource — not individual psychological, medical, legal, workers’ compensation or occupational-medical advice, and not a replacement for individual assessment or treatment.
