Category: Burnout & Recovery
Real Life.
The heart of Nostos Nest. Where the real stories live.
This blog is where I share personal reflections on burnout, sobriety, midlife change, and what it means to live a life that actually feels like yours. You’ll also find thoughts on workplace culture, mental health at work, and how we can create environments that support real people – not just job titles.
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Mapping My Career Journey: How a Career Mapping Exercise Brought Clarity After Burnout
Many of us carry our career story as a jumble of roles, burnout, and transitions. Mapping my 39 year career on a single page brought patterns into focus. This post explores how a simple career mapping exercise can bring clarity and self-compassion, especially after burnout or major change.
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The Link Between Trauma and Burnout: A Midlife Reflection
Many of us sense a link between trauma and burnout long before we have the words for it. In this post, I reflect on how early patterns can increase our risk of burnout, what recovery really looks like, and how nervous system healing can bring clarity and compassion.
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Burnout Prevention for Leaders – For Those Who Don’t Yet “Get” Burnout
Burnout prevention for leaders starts with understanding that burnout isn’t weakness. This post is for leaders who care but don’t fully understand burnout yet – and want to do better before people on their team reach breaking point.
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Australia Burnout Rates and the Cultural Factors We Rarely Talk About
Burnout in Australia is often blamed on workload and pressure, but there’s another layer we rarely talk about. This post explores tall poppy culture, the hidden recognition gap, and why so many Australians push themselves to exhaustion without asking for help.
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The Strength in Burnout: Admitting You’re Not Ok Is a Sign of Courage
Strength in burnout is often overlooked. This post explores why recognising your limits is an act of courage, not weakness – and how self-awareness can open the door to recovery.
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The Journey from Proving Myself to Believing in Myself
Overcoming imposter syndrome isn’t just about confidence. It’s about how early responsibility, survival patterns, and a lifetime of proving yourself quietly shape who you become – and what it takes to finally stop performing your worth and start believing in it.
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Habitual Burnout: When Exhaustion Becomes a Way of Life
Burnout doesn’t always arrive as a crash. Sometimes it creeps in, until exhaustion becomes your normal. I lived that way for years without realising I was in habitual burnout – until my body and mind finally said enough. Here’s what that looked like, and how I found my way back.
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Menopause and Burnout: How We Feel is Rarely Just One Thing
Menopause and burnout are often talked about separately – but what if they overlap? This post explores how to find clarity, balance, and understanding in the middle of it all.
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Feeling Guilty About Taking a Sick Day for Mental Health?
Feeling guilty about taking a sick day? You’re not alone. This post explores where that guilt comes from – and how to see mental health days as real recovery, not weakness.
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Physical Symptoms of Stress: What Your Body Might Be Trying to Tell You
Stress doesn’t just affect your mind – it shows up in your body. Discover the most common physical symptoms of stress and what happens when you finally rest.
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How to Support Someone Experiencing Burnout (And Why Common Comforts Miss the Mark)
When someone you care about is burnt out, well-meant advice can make things worse. Learn how to support someone experiencing burnout with empathy, real understanding, and the right words that help – not harm.
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Avicii Mental Health and Burnout: Lessons We All Need to Learn
The Avicii mental health and burnout story deeply moved me. It reflects struggles too many of us face, and shares so many lessons for all of us.
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The Cost of Dimming Your Light – and How I’m Reclaiming Mine
What happens when you keep dimming your light to fit in? A reflection on burnout, resilience, and learning to protect your positivity.
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Strength from Struggle and How It Relates to Burnout – Why Rest Can Feel So Unnatural
If you’ve always seen your resilience as strength from struggle, you’re not alone. But sometimes the very traits that carried us through… are the same ones that burn us out.
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Learning to Slow Down: Letting Myself Be Enough After Burnout and Redundancy
Learning to slow down after burnout and redundancy has been harder than I expected – but maybe this is where the real recovery begins.
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Burnout Recovery Isn’t Linear: Here’s What Helped Me
My burnout recovery journey took five years. I’m sharing what helped me, in the hope that it helps you do it faster.