Recovering from Burnout

Description

Burnout recovery is possible. But it is rarely as simple as resting until you feel better.

A 48-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.