👌🏻🙌🏻 Who else feels the stain to strive? And the pressure to go go go. But I’ve learnt the hard way that exhaustion DOES NOT prove your passion but that your priorities out of whack.
I used to push till I had nothing left - to the point of getting shingles and then a few years later, adrenal fatigue 🤦♀️ (still struggling with this one).
I was doing it from a place of passion and persistence, just wanting to make a difference in the lives of others...
BUT I wasn’t valuing myself.
I wasn’t seeing that for me to GIVE the best of me, I needed to BE the best of me - and that required REST and prioritising myself too.
There is no shame here.
We’re all figuring out how to give from a place of being full not empty.
And how to forge our own path, instead of following the destructive burnt out path of our culture.
Exhaustion is not something to strive for. It is NOT a badge of success.
Rest and fun are essential to living well. They were not meant to be added luxuries, but core building blocks to a healthy life.
👉🏻 How can you redefine what success looks like?
👉🏻 Are your priorities out of whack? How can you prioritize rest and play in your life?
👉🏻 Have you been neglecting yourself? Remember, we can’t give out of an empty bucket.
Let’s be courageous to go against the grain and live full lives marked with rest and play.
💜Ruth x
These 2 words have been a GAME-CHANGER for me. You see I am a long-time expert at criticizing and judging myself. Pointing out what’s wrong, slamming myself when I make a mistake, harshly questioning why I did what I did or not allowing me to feel what I feel, “should”ing all over myself... I was trapped in the shame spiral.
Feeling burnout, exhausted, unmotivated? You’re not alone. It’s normal, here’s why...
So many of us have just kept pushing through, until eventually, we run out of “surge capacity” - a series of adaptive systems we draw on for SHORT TERM SURVIVAL in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters.
Have you heard of kintsugi? It’s the art of repairing broken pottery with gold. This process beautifies the breakage and treats it as an important part of the object’s history, therefore valuing fractures instead of disguising them or glossing over them. The process typically results in something far more beautiful and stronger than the original.
