How Burn Out Impacted My Life

Burn out is a VERY real.

My story of burnt out did not happen over night. It was spread over several years and crept up on me without much notice.

Despite the detrimental impacts I was able to function with it for another year before making massive shifts in my life to free myself from burn out.

I let burn out impact my life and relationships for far too long.

Here are some ways that burn out effected my life:

Frustration at work

This is the most obvious one for me and what I thought was the source of all my other troubles. I was actually a small piece of the puzzle and something I now take total responsibility for.

I went to school for Economics and was a trained data analyst.

I had landed in the perfect job with great pay and wonderful coworkers and a flexible working arrangement.

I remember calling my mum in Australia to tell her how happy I was that I got the job. She was so proud.

I was good at what I did and enjoyed it, or so I thought.

Increasingly, I felt like I was on a never-ending treadmill of deadlines, meetings, presentations, short lunch breaks, and counting down the minutes til the end of my day.

Even heard of the Sunday night scaries - where you have anxiety about leaving for work on Monday? I had those BIG time. 

Always tired

Exhaustion was my normal state for so long.

I would go to work and come home from work completely exhausted then sleep on the couch until dinner time.

No matter what I did or how much sleep I got at night I always felt like a cast member from the Walking Dead.

It got to the point where I was avoiding social engagements because I didn’t have the energy to see my friends or socialize.

Anxiety and tension

Another thing I felt during this time was extreme anxiety and tension about everything and everyone.

Since I felt like my life was out of control and I couldn’t get a grasp on my burn out, I started looking to others as an outlet for my need to control things.

When things didn’t go my way I would second guess the situation and my role in it.

I would spend hours thinking about what other’s said or did and wonder if I was at fault.

Constant stress

If you’d told me back then that I was functioning at a high level of stress all the time I would have though you were crazy.

I was, but I didn’t even know it.

The only reason it came to my attention was through my acupuncturist. After taking my pulse one day, she asked if I felt any tension because my heart rate was elevated.

I felt normal, of course, which was a huge red flag that I had learned to function with a high baseline of stress.

This was a groundbreaking moment for me and something I took really seriously.

Health issues

All of these impacts from burn out started to take a huge toll on my health.

The impact on my health was the largest and longest impact I felt from burnt out.

All the constant stress, anxiety, frustration and exhaustion were wreaking havoc with my body.

I had chronic adult acne, my hair was falling out, my hormones were a wreck, I had missed periods, I was underweight and undernourished.

Late one night I ended up in the emergency room with severe abdominal pains for unresolved reasons.

No matter what I did I couldn’t solve my health issues.

I spent over 2 years seeing various healthcare practitioners and specialists and getting conflicting viewpoints/diagnoses.

Where I think I went wrong

Looking back and connecting all the dots I can now see that my burnt out was really a byproduct of living out of alignment.

Sure, I was trained as a data analyst and good at it but it wasn’t what I was put here to do. I was suppressing so many other aspects of my personality to be the ‘perfect’ analyst that it was causing me to deny who I was in the process.

My health issues were messages from my body that things weren’t going well. If I’d spent more time listening to what my body was telling me I might have figured things out sooner.

I finally took responsibly for how I was feeling and made some radical changes in my life:

👉🏽I quit my job cold turkey.

👉🏽I went into sales which I had no previous experience.

👉🏽I started exploring my passions.

👉🏽I started eating real, nourishing food without guilt or fear.

👉🏽I started to step into my authentic self, unapologetically.

👉🏽I started to honor all aspects of who I was and was becoming.

My story of burn out is really my origin story.

The experience I had with burn out lead me to where I am now where I coach other women to overcome burnt out, find their inner badass and start living into their potential.

I feel I have found my true calling and have never felt more healthy or well or more myself in my entire life.

Have a wonderful day, my loves!  

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