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Balm For Burnout

When considering how to recover from burnout, it’s important to start with small thoughts and actions that are simple, easy, life-giving, and pleasurable. At this point of burnout, the nervous system has been stressed for a long time, which lends it to higher sensitivity to all of life, so less is more, even when considering meditation.

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Meet your Teacher

Dee Hennessy

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Dee is a specialist in corporate Mindful Leadership. Working globally from Ireland, Dee supports over busy, hyper-connected 21st-century humans to deepen their capacity to pause, to rest, to prevent or recover from burnout, and to blossom. Dee has an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Interventions from UCD Ireland, & specialist post-grad training in Spiritual Companioning, Wisdom Supervision & Trauma Informed Online Facilitation. Dee has developed two gold-standard programs, Inner Resilience Leadership Programme (IRL) for teams and organizations, and Blossom, for women leaders who want to develop exquisite self-care and resilient leadership skills.

3 Days

525 students

4.9 stars

12 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

The Art And Skill Of Pausing

In this lesson, I introduce you to the evidence-based route away from burnout through tiny simple actions that are pleasurable or enjoyable. You can kiss goodbye to striving or 'shoulding', as you lean into surrendering to that which you cannot control and begin your healing journey with tiny, simple pause activities.

Lesson 2

Leaning In To Simple Nourishing Rituals

As human beings, we are bundles of habit. As we carry too much stress and move towards burnout, we can let go of nourishing activities as we try to keep going. Counterintuitively but wonderfully successful this lesson will invite you to notice where you are spending your energy and how to bring more nourishing rituals into your everyday.

Lesson 3

Beginning To Build Real Self Compassion

A key skill in moving away from burnout towards greater well-being and resilience is self-compassion. A tricky thing for those of us who are usually amazing at looking after others but often at some cost to ourselves. In this lesson, I offer a special meditation for you to practice as your nervous system begins to settle with the small actions of the previous two lessons.

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Recent Reviews

Lori

August 23, 2025

This is a wonderful course for burnout recovery. The lessons & meditations are extremely helpful. Thank you for creating this beautifully valuable course. I'm grateful to be able to have access to it & found great peace while taking it. The tools I can take with me & use ongoing. Thank you. 💚🙏🏻

Alter

July 31, 2025

Great course featuring a mix of practical knowledge, and meditation for rest, embodiment and self-love.

Jeanine

September 8, 2024

Really great course for understanding burnout and how to manage it through small simple steps. Not adding to the pressure but just keeping it real🙏

Ariel

September 4, 2024

Thank you for this course and opportunity to understand what burnout is,thank you for sharing insights based on my posts and interactions through out this course I will continue to follow up with compassion and loving kindness for myself 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

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