Hi, beauties. I hope all of you are having a fantastic day. In today’s post, How to Recover From Burnout, I will share my experience with burnout.
I’m the type of person who loves to make everyone happy; for so many years, everyone was above me. I never cared what I wanted. It was more what I was told I should do. And here comes my story.
I can say that I love to learn about different things such as business, real estate, sewing, art, sports, cooking, healthy living, and the list goes on and on. Did I mention I was a fashion and beauty influencer for the longest time?
With all those things, I was learning and wanting to be the best I could be. I didn’t realize that I was slowly but surely burning out. I thought it was just a face, but it was getting worse than getting better.
I must mention that I’m married with three kids and a business (for those who don’t know me). Everything starts piling up because you can’t stop being a mom and wife, even if you are so tired and really not capable of doing anything. I’m not 100% sure, but I feel I can compare burnout with depression in some ways. I hope you don’t judge my comparison, but this is how I felt then.
I’m very cheerful, and I love positivity. There was a point when nothing was making me happy. I couldn’t figure out why this was happening. I have a fantastic family and healthy (to a certain point, I will explain later) kids. What was my issue?
Every day, I try to do and be excited about the things I usually am excited about. Unfortunately, it wasn’t happening. I had no excitement in me. I often talked to my husband and family about what was happening to me. All of them said you are burned out from everything you do.
I can totally agree because I never sit on the couch and relax; I am always on a mission to learn or do something. I feel I can’t waste time. So here I come, ambitious, happy, excited to complete tasks, sitting on the couch and thinking, what have I done?
I feel these moments make us realize what we really want from life, who we are, and find a way to fix it. I did nothing related to my activities and online businesses for a couple of weeks. I declined all the products offered by brands because I had no inspiration or excitement to do anything then.
The problem is that you never know how long this face will take. You realize that you need to rest as much as possible, watch some relaxing TV shows and movies, listen to fun music, meet with family and friends, and work out.
Every day, I realized how society made me make choices and everyone’s expectations about me. So, I had conversations with my family about things I don’t want to do anymore, no matter how good I am. I need to reduce my actions to stay happy and healthy.
If you haven’t read my blog before, during that time of burnout, I was dealing with health issues. You can read more about it HERE.
Now, I still go off track and want to do many things, but I’m really fighting myself to do less. I will never be less of a mom, wife, daughter, sister, or friend, but we all have limits; our bodies and brains need a break. As of today, I feel so much better than I did before. I learn about myself daily. One of the most important lessons I learned and would love to share with you is to live your life for yourself and not for everyone else’s expectations and wishes.
You will never make everyone happy, and you can’t stress about that. Live your life, do what makes you happy, and never stop growing and becoming the best version of yourself. There is one book I recently read that is easy to digest and very helpful for anyone going through a situation similar to mine. Book details HERE.
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