When high achieving women burn out!

So I just had an interview and it was talking to women who are high achievers, entrepreneurs and women in corporate careers who are very driven and very goal orientated and work very hard. And one of the side effects of that is burn out, as we neglect ourselves in the process and it was interesting because I was asked about my story.

In the beginning when I started my first business I did hit burn out. Now, I was asked what was the driver of my burn out? When I started my business I was so young, very driven and I had such high expectations of myself and I basically just worked like a maniac.

Eventually you hit burn out or adrenal fatigue. For me, the drive came from a very strong work ethic background. From a very young kid, from a very young age, I was working. I grew up in a very European family and we worked from a young age and that's all great because I have a great work ethic from that today. But when I started my own business with the high expectations and identifying with your work and things like that, can be a trigger or a driver for burn out.

I certainly say that in high achieving women is that they identify with their work. They're constantly pushing themselves to achieve more because they're kind of looking for that fulfilment in the goal and once they reach that goal they feel the same and so they set another goal and so therefore they never kind of get in to that place where they feel really good about where they're at.

Some of the symptoms of a burn out in high achieving women is that you could probably still push through your day. You probably wake up tired, drink lots of coffee, you push through your day, you do 110% at work. You probably still go to the gym and workout, then you come home and you just want to collapse on the couch.

Quite often there's a lot of mood changes going on as well. If you're feeling rather irritable or angry or sad or depressed, worry a lot or have things that you just can't let go of.

Things are sitting on your mind for too long. Needing the wine to unwind. So really the alcohol plays that part in helping you to relax and helping you to kind of have a good night's sleep, which it doesn't really, but it's there to kind of relax your nervous system because we can feel highly strung during the day. And then maybe having issues with weight, as well. Finding it hard to lose weight. Perhaps finding it really hard to maintain your weight or to manage your weight.

One of the things that I see high achieving women always do, they want to just get on with it, right? You just want to get back to what you're doing and you just want to be reaching your goals, et cetera. So, taking lots of supplements for the adrenal fatigue and burn out and the problem with that is that adrenal fatigue, we talk about it being the adrenals are tired and it's kind of like an easy way to explain what's going on rather than getting all technical with it.

Adrenal fatigue is more than just the adrenal glands. Your whole body is impacted and what's controlling the hormone levels is not actually the adrenals it's the nervous system.

If we're just taking supplements for the adrenals or for more energy then we can possibly push ourselves further into adrenal fatigue and in to burn out.

It's certainly what I did years ago. But even after awhile I thought well I've got two dispensaries, I can just take my own supplements and I can nip this in the bud really quickly and I didn't. I pushed myself further into adrenal fatigue because I was using supplements to stimulate me to keep going. It's just delaying the inevitable.

Burn out is kind of like a wake up call.

The symptoms of burn out, the exhaustion and the anxiety and the depression. Depression for high achieving women doesn't look like being melancholic and just wanting to sleep on the couch all day. You're still doing everything that you need to do.

You can be quite anxious and you can have a lot of internal pressure and restlessness and insomnia with that depression. It doesn't always look like what people think it looks like. It's certainly a wake up call.

One of my favorite quotes is by Dina Glouberman who talked about the joy of burn out and she says that, our soul no longer wants us to continue in the direction that we're going and it withdraws it's energy from what we're doing. It's almost like, you should have taken a right way back and you're still going straight and therefore our soul or our spirit or our inner guidance, whatever you want to call it, is kind of telling us we can't go in that direction anymore we need to take stock and change direction.

If we don't do that then eventually the body just stops, right, and you've got no other choice but to kind of review your life and to make changes in the appropriate directions. Don't allow yourself to kind of get to that end stage of burn out where people are just bed-ridden. Definitely try to catch it before then.

There's little things that you can do to your lifestyle to prevent going in to full burn out and to improve recovery from burn out.

What you put into your mouth, the foods that you eat, the amount of sleep that you get, just little lifestyle changes that can make a significant difference. Even cutting out or cutting down alcohol. Having breakfast in time and just little things that you can do that can support the body to start to recover and to heal a bit more quickly as well.

If this is you, if you are a high achieving woman and you can kind of feel yourself are on the edge of burn out cause you're tired and you're drinking lots of coffee to get through the day but you're also anxious and stressed and depressed, then definitely use those symptoms as a wake up call and get yourself sorted, you know? Get on top of it.

I'm going to put a link below to some things, additional information that you can have a look at on what you can do for that: https://vesnahrsto.com/conquer-fatigue