Megan Hills
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My first experiment with counselling was with a 'Zen psychiatrist'.
Well, that's how I categorised him. I talked. The psychiatrist sat there, eyes half-closed, apparently meditating on my right shoulder. At ten-minute intervals the psychiatrist released a low hum, much like [...]
Jeff is…
…my ultimate love app
…the CEO of my heart's SEO
…the mojo in my tutti frutti
With that said, Jeff does piss me off from time to time. Thankfully, the feeling is mutual.
But before we go too far…
I do understand that 'Get angry at Jeff' as a burnout recovery tip might be tricky for some to apply. [...]
What do you do when you've challenged yourself to write a post that you've already written about (see 'Meditating made manageable – mmm'), when it's about scribbling rubbish?
I can't scribble rubbish here – I value you too much. Still, we can re-cap and see where it takes us…Whaddyasay?
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'Scribbling rubbish' is my name for an exercise officially [...]
It's exhausting, listening to all that advice. Your family has it, your friends have it, strangers in the the pharmacy queue have it.
And it usually starts with "I read in this magazine….", or "I saw on the tele the other night…", or "I was talking about you to Sharon in accounts. She had chronic [...]
To be honest, I didn't giggle when I was a schoolgirl. I tended to snort accidentally or let loose an almighty guffaw that ricocheted around stairwells, swung around corners and marched across ovals.
I knew I had an unattractive laugh, but I couldn't help it. And, as you can imagine, having a laugh like mine [...]
'Cull your friends' sounds a bit harsh. Even by Facebook standards. And it also sounds like strange advice, considering friends can be damned handy when things get rough. And if you are burned out, things can get rough.
But this morsel of advice comes from a place of love…and sanity. A new kind of love and [...]
As mentioned in my '13 things' towards recovery from burnout, napping is one thing, just lying down is quite another.
In the last post (Burnout recovery tip 1: The Helen Keller Approach) we talked about stripping back stimuli to give your senses a rest. This means going somewhere quiet for a little lie down. No books, no TV, no [...]
It's been a month since I last wrote. I was going to apologise, but then thought 'Nah.'
I'm tired. You already know what that's like, I don't have to explain it to you.
So I imagine, chances are, you also understand the fatigue associated with apologising for not keeping up with the blogging/tweeting/typing 'Me! Me! Me!' sixteen [...]
I've been shuffling around the edges of telling you my burnout story. My story 'unplugged' of being unplugged.
I didn't want this blog to be about 'the answer'. Because I believe everyone finds their own answer. Mine won't be the exactly same as yours, you see.
A woman told me that taking spirulena (algae) was the [...]
When picturing the 'vibes' of someone with burnout, it's hard not to think of porridge. Gluggy, week-old, stone-cold porridge.
You know vibes, don't you? Otherwise known as 'vibrations'.
Human vibrations are mostly accepted in our general society via the comment 'I got a bad vibe from that guy'.
If you say that you got a good vibe from [...]
