People see you as a smart, kind, dedicated woman, working in an international organization. You’ve always worked hard and the high pace and never-ending work pressure have started taking their toll. The constant effort to prove yourself and keep up with demands is leading to physical and emotional exhaustion – you’re starting to burn out.
You’ve been looking for support, but most coaching seems to be aimed at looking at your career path. But what about you as a person? How can you get yourself out of these same patterns of feeling overworked? Who is going to protect you, look out for your well-being?
If you continue this way, you will never gain back your energy and get out of the burnout cycle. You will get yourself back just enough to function, but the real problems, the real reasons why you ended up in this exhaustion in the first place, will still be there. So you manage to keep functioning – surviving – knowing that burnout is just around the corner.
And when it hits, you really feel you have failed: failed your family, failed your work, and failed yourself. Not able to pull your weight, not able to support yourself, let alone others. People expect you to do what’s needed, being able to rely on you. Are you really that weak? You know deep down that you’re not, that there is another solution – you just haven’t found it yet…