The Trauma of Burnout: How to Manage Your Nervous System Before It Manages You by Dr Claire Plumbly

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"'Trauma' and 'burnout' are two terms that are used a lot these days, but no one has really connected the dots between them until now. With our work-home lives ever colliding, many of us are in a loop of frenzied busyness, which means that our nervous system eventually gets overwhelmed, and we experience a trauma response. This changes how we think, feel and behave, making it difficult for us to carry out tasks or practice self-care strategies like mindfulness. We lose motivation and become show more trapped in a state of learned helplessness, unable to see solutions, sometimes unable to care. Operating on autopilot, we become prone to making mistakes and to toxic behavior that impacts our professional and personal relationships. The good news is that there is hope. Clinical Psychologist Dr. Claire Plumbly is an expert trauma response and burnout; in her first book, she shares: - The signs and stages of burnout - Why it stifles our abilities to interact, make decisions, solve problems or be productive and creative. - Common causes, from using busyness to cope with emotions to perfectionism and the draining impact of monotonous work. - How one burnt out nervous system impacts the nervous systems around it - a phenomenon called co-regulation. - How to work in sympathy with your nervous system and benefit from a healthy level stress to remain effective. - How compassion supports your nervous system to overcome burnout Addressing an issue that is more and more relevant, The Trauma of Burnout validates what so many are experiencing, offers the emotional and physiological underpinnings, and a way to heal"-- show less