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The Dark Night of Burnout

Burnout is heavy. Restlessness, guilt and shame. Burnout is restless because there is a great need to keep going, doing, and reaching the expectation of someone, whether from self, others or God. Guilt is heavy on the shoulders. A sense of not good enough in the doing, and needing to do better. Shame is connected because burnout makes one want to hide, withdraw and not to be seen. Burnout like grief, is hard to understand, a rollercoaster of emotions. When...