We've all come to believe in some particular way that we are weak, slow, defective, ugly, unlovable or just plain, "not enough." We mistakenly believe that if we're mean or cruel enough, somehow we will slough off our bad habits. Instead, we're practicing being cruel to ourselves, sending us into a depression that deepens the hole we're already in.

It's often hard to detect when feeling associated with burnout are just a passing reaction or when it's a message from the deeper interior that change in needed.

Our experience of difficulty depends entirely on the meaning we bring to it. Some perspectives empower us and some render us incapacitated. How we hold the circumstances of our lives can either grow us or take us down.

If we can learn to listen to and decipher our body’s interior messages, we can find a way out of the confused and stuck quality burnout shackles us with.

Sometime in the middle of life, most of us wake up to the realization that in spite of the energy we've put into our careers, roles, and relationships, something else wants to find expression.

Most of our 20’s are spent trying on lots of different masks. We pick up ‘the partier mask’ and then put it down. Then we try on ‘the professional mask’ and then put that one down. During the ages between 28 and 30, we take a few masks that do work and fit and refine them into a persona that works for what our soul needs to learn in our 30’s.