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Burnout Hits Different When You're Already Running Low ðŊïļ
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Hey Reader, June always comes in louder than I'm ready for. Everyone around me seems to shift into a higher gear â plans, travel, the general assumption that summer means energy. And every year I notice the same thing: the gap between what the season asks for and what I actually have. If you've been feeling more worn down than usual lately, more flat, harder to recover â I want to offer something before you chalk it up to your illness just doing its thing. It might be burnout. And burnout in a chronically ill body doesn't look like what most people describe. There's no dramatic crash. No clear before-and-after. When your baseline is already low, burnout tends to arrive quietly â as less than usual, as rest that doesn't help, as tasks that feel impossible without a flare to explain why. It builds slowly, and it's easy to miss because it looks so much like everything else you're already managing. This week's post is about that. What burnout actually looks like when you're already running on empty, why it's so easy to dismiss, and why naming it matters even when nothing about the situation is easy to fix. Read it here: How Burnout Looks Different When You Have a Chronic Illnessâ I hope it meets you where you are. |
April Smith | The Thriving Spoonie
ðŠI create resources to help people adapt to living with chronic illness so they can thrive.
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