Burnout - 3 Early Signs Most People Miss

Burnout, Exhaustion and Adrenal Fatigue don't just happen. They build up over time, with subtle signs being the first indication that your body is burning out. The problem is that most people miss the subtle, early signs of burnout and don't pay attention to their health, nervous system or adrenals until they reach complete burnout and chronic fatigue. This audio explains what it looks like to be in early burnout, plus the Human Design profile that is most prone to burnout.

Transcript

Burnout, Adrenal exhaustion, Fatigue, Call it what you will. Most people think that burnout just happens but I promise you that your body always tries to warn you before it forces you to stop. The problem is that those early warning signs they're subtle and most of us don't know how to recognize them. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to share with you three early signs of burnout that I've seen in my clinical practice time and time again and in myself to be honest so that you can catch these early warning signs before they evolve into burnout and completely take you out of life. So let's dive in. The first early sign of burnout is when something just feels off but you override it. This I promise you is the earliest warning sign of burnout and it's when something feels not quite right but it's not enough to slow you down. It's also not loud enough to make you stop and go oh I think something's a little bit off here. Now what might that look like? It could look like a slight tightness in your chest or in your gut. It could feel like low level anxiety or restlessness. You could feel wired but tired and that could most certainly impact your sleep and you could also feel just a quiet sense of disconnection. Now most people they override these very subtle symptoms and I promise you that this is where the burnout pattern actually begins. Now the second early sign of burnout is when you stay connected to others but at the same time you disconnect from your body. This is a really common connection with burnout especially in people who are wired for connection with others and this is often where people start sacrificing themselves. Sacrificing their bodies to stay connected to other people. To people please. To make sure that other people's needs are being met but it's at the expense of your own needs wants desires well-being. So what could this look like in real life? It could look like saying yes when your body actually says no. It could be continuing to give or hold space even when you know that you're depleted. It could also look like prioritizing relationships over your own body's signals. This is where connection well it stays very strong. You maintain your connection with others but it's at the expense of yourself. The connection with yourself it starts to fade. Now as a human design analyst myself I would like to put a little bit of human design in this section because it's very relevant especially if you know your human design profile. Do you have a 4 in your profile? Are you a 4-6, A 6-4, A 1-4 or a 4-1? If you have a 4 in your human design profile you are wired for connection and connection it feels good to you but because connection feels good to you or natural to you it's essential that you are discerning about how you connect with others and honestly I'm a 4-6 and I do resonate with this very much. Now this doesn't just go for anyone with a 4 in their profile of course it goes for anyone you have to be mindful of who you connect with because that can impact anyone but if you have a 4 in your profile or if you have lots of 4 lines in your human design soul blueprint well not honoring your connection to others versus your connection to self that can most certainly contribute to burnout. Connection it definitely has the ability to nourish us by connecting us with people places or things but if those people places or things don't feel quite right to us well go back to the first early warning warning sign of burnout because we can power through and we can still choose to connect with those things but the problem is if we're choosing to connect with the things that don't really align with us or the when it's at the expense of ourselves it starts to alert your nervous system it puts you into sympathetic overdrive and then that is what evolves if unchecked into the burnout. So it's most important that everyone especially if you have a 4 in your human design profile that you are hyper aware of how you're connecting with others and if it's at the expense of the connection that you have with yourself. The third early sign of burnout is that your body gets louder but you normalize it oh my gosh this happens all the time it's when you know that you've got some symptoms going on you know that things aren't quite right but you tell yourself nah that's just normal that's common so let's look at what this could look like in real life it's when you get disrupted sleep and you tell yourself oh no that's pretty common and you don't do anything about it you could have digestive changes that just seem to stick around but you go it's probably just something like IBS and that's pretty common so I'll just continue dealing with it it's all good right it's when you have fatigue that rest just does not fully fix it's also when you have increased reactivity or emotional sensitivity you know that your ability to regulate your emotions well it's lower than it used to be that is most certainly an early burnout signal it is at this point that your body it is not whispering anymore but you have adapted to the noise now what I've learned as a naturopath who's been in the health industry for a good 20 years and as I mentioned before a human design analyst is that burnout is never the beginning of the story but it is generally where we start to pay attention and the real work is paying attention to those subtle signs that happen before the burnout before the symptoms occur it is possible to notice these very subtle signs but most of us were never taught how to do that and even as a very well experienced practitioner myself I realized oh I don't have the comprehensive skills to do that either which is why I spent a good six months last year creating a program that helps my clients understand and tap into those very subtle signs that the body sends before well before it yells at you before it screams because we all deserve to understand our bodies well enough so that we can notice when it is whispering to us oh my gosh can you imagine if we all learned this skill as children even if this skill was learned in school we would be a different society of people and I promise you that burnout it would also be a far less common condition than it is now my friends thank you so much for being here I'm grateful for you sharing energy with me and I look forward to being with you again very soon