Nurturing Burnout

In this practice, we come together to hold space with burnout, learning how to use meditation to explore and assess the effect of burnout on the body. Through the act of holding space, we are inviting in self-compassion and self-love, an authentic and truthful version of self-care.

This practice opens with a 5min discussion on meditation and mindfulness as a means to detach ourselves from the "thoughts of burnout" in order to explore and recognize burnout in the body and its manifestations. Then, we will enter a guided meditation, using a body scan as a means to relax the body and explore burnout. By dropping into the body and the breath, we learn how to allow the body to tell us what type of post-practice self-care is required, if any, following self-compassion and self-love. The practice ends with a few short reflection considerations.