The From Burnout to Recovery Show with Dr. Kate: Your Journey to Burnout Recovery Starts Here: Episode 44 : Healing is Greater Than Coping with Jinnie Lee Schmid

In Episode 44, Jinnie Lee Schmid joins us to talk about how just pushing through isn’t really the best way to deal with burnout, because they start coming with hard crashes, too.  The key to avoiding the crashes before the burnouts is learning one’s cycle of emotional well-being.  Feelings of being overwhelmed, finding yourself distracted more easily, or getting brain fog are all signs of impending burnout. The best prevention to burnout is to just unplug from expectations and take a break.  

 

Having accountability with other people to be able to celebrate what’s going well or scream about what’s going wrong or talking through things that are red flags of burnout.  Burnout doesn’t have to just show up in the workplace, but also in just every day life.  

 

Grief and burnout can go hand in hand.  Both can happen with any kind of change or loss. It can be a sad occurrence or one that is actually exciting.  Grief is easier to walk through than it is to spend years trying to avoid it.  This healing begins with making a list of life experiences, so you can see just how much change you’ve endured and recognize just how many emotional challenges you’ve encounted in your life. Your whole life experience impacts your right now life experience. Routine use of coping skills are very different than reactive use of coping mechanisms.  One helps you to heal. The other will only keep you reeling. 

 

Jinnie has experienced about as much change, loss, and grief as anyone can imagine, most of it by the time she graduated college. But she perfected "Academy Award Recovery" at an early age and powered her way through a long, successful career as a corporate consultant and entrepreneur.

 

After the most important person in her life died, she struggled through nine months of debilitating grief that threatened her business and her marriage. Then she finally discovered The Grief Recovery Method – and her purpose and calling became clear.

 

Now she coaches high-performing women leaders who have too much at stake to stay stuck, helping them to recover from their past, release their grief, and reclaim their freedom to thrive!

 

She lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband (same one!) and a revolving menagerie of rescue cats and dogs.

 

You can connect with Jinnie Lee Schmid more here:

 

https://changenavigatorsllc.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ChangeNavigatorsLLC

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinnieleeschmid/

https://www.instagram.com/jinnieleeschmid/

 

Our Recovery Moment in this show is focused on a body scan that is meant to help calm your physical body.

 

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