Taking a break from time to time is essential, and yet many people leave their vacation time unused. Whether you plan a vacation, a staycation, or a playcation, it’s important to take a break from your job, your routine, and the demands of life in order to keep stress levels in check. When you take a[…]
Spring always feels like such a time of renewal and awakening. People often use it as a reason to “spring clean” their homes—to tidy up and make things feel fresh and new. Reorganizing all your closets, cupboards, and drawers can help you feel re-energized, but doing a cleanup of your mind and brain can really help you feel[…]
Being a caregiver for someone you love is a gift to them, and it can be a blessing to you. But it can also be stressful and exhausting. Over time, you find yourself not feeling like, well, yourself. And it makes caregiving that much harder. Then you feel guilty, because it shouldn’t be this hard[…]
What Is Mental Exhaustion? It’s kind of like physical tiredness, except it’s your mind instead of your muscles. It tends to show up when you focus on a mentally tough task for a while. You might also feel this kind of brain drain if you’re always on alert or stressed out. Your job, caring for[…]
You’re Exhausted Are you so tired that you can’t move a muscle? Do you drag yourself out of bed to get to work in the morning? Does your 8-hour shift feel like 80? Burnout is a kind of work-related stress characterized by three specific things. The first is a feeling that you’re exhausted — both[…]
Here’s how to deal with feeling physically and emotionally tired If you’re feeling exhausted and sluggish, and even simple tasks feel overwhelming to complete — or you find yourself so stressed out that you’re quick to get angry or frustrated — you might be experiencing burnout. “We’re living in an incredibly stressful time,[…]
Over the course of our lives, we experience a variety of stressors in the workplace. Whether it is from difficult bosses or coworkers, demanding work tasks, or even just long hours at the office, these factors can have a huge effect on mental health and overall well-being. Remote work has been a welcome change for[…]
Being a caregiver for someone you love is a gift to them, and it can be a blessing to you. But it can also be stressful and exhausting. Over time, you find yourself not feeling like, well, yourself. And it makes caregiving that much harder. Then you feel guilty, because it shouldn’t be this hard[…]
When stress gets the best of you, don’t think twice about taking a personal day. Learn how to take a successful mental health day that leaves your brain actually feeling better. Just because you’re not coughing up phlegm or in bed with a fever doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take a day off. No, that doesn’t[…]
As we approach the two-year mark of the global pandemic and the new Omicron variant continues to sweep the country, many of us are experiencing more burnout than ever. Never mind that it’s also wintertime in January, when the bitter temperatures and lack of sunshine inevitably cast a veil of doom and gloom. We’re burnt out on being burnt out.[…]