Burnout (like chronic illness) has a way of sneaking up on a person. Symptoms aren't always obvious. Sometimes they can start slowly and can be dismiss as temporary. "It'll pass," can turn from days to weeks to months until it becomes your new normal. I hope this tool helps bring you more clarity about how you're managing stress in your life and whether it's time to get some help and/or healing.

Here are the 13 most important questions that I know to assess both the impacts of stress on your body-mind-spirit and assess the circumstances in life that lead to burnout. (Because you can't actually be separated from the context of your life.)

You can use these questions as a private journalling exercise or you can write out your answers and submit them to me to get my reflections and input in a live chat (ie. book a free Burnout Barometer Session with me).

To get the most out of this exercise, I suggest a couple of things...

  1. Give yourself 15-30 minutes.
  2. Make some tea, grab your journal, quiet yourself and connect in with body and your heart.
  3. Hold yourself with tenderness and understanding. Reality checks aren't always easy. It can be intense doing a review of your health like this. Go slowly if you need to and remember to breath.
  4. Be as honest as you can be.
  5. Think back a year or two, compare your answers now to back then. What direction is it pointing?
  6. For the 'How often' questions ... use whatever comes to mind first and then check in with yourself to see if it's not actually more frequent. "Is it really once per week or is it more like once or twice a day?"

Here are the questions...

Your answers are qualitative not quantitative. It's not as simple as adding up your score and checking a burnout risk chart.It's the question that drives us, Neo!There are two important question to consider as you look back over your answers ...

  1. Is this the quality of life and health that you want for yourself (or that your loved ones would want for you)?
  2. If not, what are you going to do to change it?

Help and support are available for you!  Read about the Community Super Hero Self Care Plan - 3 months of healing with herbs and empathy to get the world's changemakers back to thriving!And whether we end up working together or not, I hope when you're well when I see you in the streets!strength & wisdom.garliq