Ep 333: Interrupting the burnout cycle as a highly sensitive person

About this episode

This episode discusses the cycle of burnout among highly sensitive people and how to honor one's true capacity.

One thing I see in so many of us highly sensitive folk is that we're experts at consistently overestimating our capacity. When we overestimate capacity, the outcome is written long before we land there: we fall in a heap; exhausted and burnt out. Why oh why do we repeat this cycle? Well ... for one, the world kind of demands it. So what do we do if we want OUT of that cycle and to finally honour the truth of our capacity? Join me for this episode of SelfKind - a podcast for highly...

People in this episode

Host: Erica Webb

Topics covered

• burnout
• highly sensitive people
• self-care
• capacity
• mental health

Keywords

• burnout cycle
• highly sensitive
• self-care
• capacity overestimation
• mental exhaustion

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