About this episode

Michelle Stokes discusses the experience of burnout and the chaos that ensues when high achievers try to maintain control.

What happens when you come off a vacation high, try to pull off a birthday sleepover for six eight-year-olds, and then somehow completely fail at Father's Day? You hit your "quarterly crash". In this incredibly candid episode, Michelle sits down to process what burnout actually looks like when it sneaks up on a high achiever who has been doing all the "right things". She realizes that a lack of her usual over-planning is exactly what led to the weekend's chaos—from losing it at Ben over an iPad ranking, to floating stiffly at the pool instead of doing a cannonball. It all culminated in a Tuesday afternoon when she canceled her plans, closed the blinds, put on Scarlet's sleep mask, and slept for two hours in the middle of the week. Oh, and Josh came home with a cherry blossom tree because he didn't know what else to do to help. Timestamps: 00:00 Post Father's Day and Already Apologizing 03:14 Swimming Was Not the Plan 06:28 The iPad Incident 09:42 Why I Think It All Went Wrong 12:17 Lack of Control Is My Kryptonite 15:33 The Quarterly Crash Nobody Saw Coming 19:48 Josh Bought a Cherry Blossom Tree 22:06 Permission to Crash Before Summer Starts If you held it all together this…

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Stokes

Topics covered

• burnout
• high achievers
• parenting
• self-care
• mental health
• vacation
• chaos

Keywords

• burnout
• high achievers
• self-care
• parenting
• chaos
• vacation
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Places: pool, cherry blossom tree

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