xhaustion can threaten the very core of our being. When everything costs energy we don’t have, our world shrinks. We can become alienated from our emotions, desires and loved ones. But what can we do about it?In my work as a burnout coach, I have found the cause that stands out above all the others is not feeling valued. If we neither give nor receive appreciation at work, our chances of burning out increase by 45% and 48% respectively, according to.
As a coach, I have found that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers particularly powerful tools for managing our inner critic. ACT can teach us to treat it as mind-chatter and to shift attention away from the content to the form . ACT teaches us one of the most precious insights there is, namely, that we are not our thoughts.
We should therefore always ask ourselves: what is the actual life-cost of our choices? If we find the price we pay is too high, we may wish to make adjustments, privileging time and health over money or status.When we are exhausted, a simple but effective strategy is to look at our commitments, both big and small, and map them on to our core values.