Hello dear readers! Today I’m talking about a topic I’m unfortunately far too familiar with; burnout. I’ve written about burnout before, but right now I am in the trenches; fighting tooth and nail to try and find some balance and reprieve. So I thought it might be helpful for me to detail how my days…
Well! Hello there! Fancy seeing you here! You may have noticed a distinct lack of blog posts from me during August… And that is because August. Was. Hard. I spent 11 days in a flare up (not consecutive), two bouts of tonsillitis and have been struggling with pretty severe insomnia and burnout. Don’t get me…
May has been kinda weird, has anyone else felt that? Like I can’t exactly pin when the month began, and it feels like it went forever yet I can’t believe it’s already June. Time is a lie. As always, let’s just start at the beginning. Beginnings are always a good place to start, I suppose.…
I start the day with just over 3 hours sleep. My brain is so wired all throughout the night that even when I did manage to get some rest, it was filled with weird dreams + racing thoughts. By 6:30AM I give up, make a cup of tea and eat a banana. Bemusedly stare out…
Last night, I wrote a blog post detailing how I was feeling in that moment. I was in a flare up, I couldn’t get warm, I was miserable over the feeling of missing out. But I ended the blog post with “tomorrow will be better.” Well. Tomorrow is today, so let’s see how things are…
It’s Saturday night, the sun has set and the rain has settled in. I’m out of commission for the night. In truth, for most of the day. This blog post chronicles the darker side, the shadow side of living with chronic pain. Content warnings for depression, ADHD, CRPS, description of injuries + mentions of a…
Alright my friends, let’s dive into a topic that is very close to my heart. Burnout. It comes in many different flavours, and honestly? All of them suck. Burnout can be caused by taking on too much work, poor time management, stress (in ANY area of your life), depression, executive dysfunction, no work/life balance (I…
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