Coping Strategies
A free exercise from The Burnout Workbook
Happy Friday everyone!
(Or, oh jeez, how is it already Friday?)
The Burnout Workbook is finally here! Amelia did an amazing job adapting what we learned writing the book into a bunch of fun, interactive exercises you can do to practice skills and complete your stress cycle.
We’ve got a free exercise you can read below or download as a PDF on our website. Print it out, do it on a tablet, scribble on this email and screenshot it, whatever works for you.
It’s completely free. You don’t have to sign up for anything.
Before We Dive In, a Word on Coping
When there’s so much going on that you don’t have time to work through a series of worksheets, there’s coping. Our definition of “coping” is: making this moment tolerable.
Coping strategies are an important part of preventing and recovering from burnout. If we think of burnout as a wound, it’s easy to understand why we need to stop the bleeding, protect the injury, and ease the pain to allow healing. Pain causes stress, and stress causes pain, so let’s just cut out that self-fulfilling situation and allow ourselves to ease the pain from time to time.
Yes, the goal of this workbook is to create long-term, overall healing, but sometimes you just need the moment to be more comfortable. You probably already know what your default coping strategies are. Let’s look at the balance between the good consequences and the not-so-good consequences of some coping strategies, so you can make informed decisions about what will work for you. (For an in-depth example, see “How to Eat Your Feelings” in chapter 5.)
Once again, you can:
It’s the same content as this email, but you can print it out.
Remember printers? They make these really thin single-use iPads called “printouts”.
And if you enjoy this exercise, you’ll love The Burnout Workbook.
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