Coaching practices for Awe and Well Being When Burned Out
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
- The big blowup is over but I’m completely wrung out
- There’s a low-grade resentment and worry I carry around all day, and by evening I’m wiped out even though I didn’t physically do much
- There’s this one heavy thing I keep stepping around
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
Practices that may help
- Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences. - Recover and recharge after intense emotion
After an emotional peak, deliberately allow recovery time — intense arousal depletes resources.
The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical - Identify and shift emotional energy drains
Chronic negative emotions are not just unpleasant — they are metabolic and cognitive loads that drain performance capacity.
The Energy Audit - Identify the drag domain — the one pulling everything else down
One chronically low domain often functions as a ceiling on satisfaction in all the others.
The Wheel of Life, Made Practical - Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical - Manage emotional energy
Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - Distinguish active recovery from passive escape
Scrolling and binge-watching feel like rest but do not renew energy — genuine recovery requires active disengagement from performance demands.
The Energy Audit - Use positive emotions to restore self-control capacity
Induce positive affect after a demanding self-control period to accelerate recovery.
Self-Regulation Failure and Ego Depletion - Understand awe’s physical dimension
Regularly experienced awe is associated with lower inflammatory markers — which is worth understanding even if the mechanism is not fully settled.
Awe and the Small Self
Related concerns
- Emotion Coaching John Gottman When Burned Out
Emotion coaching is John Gottman’s term for the parenting style in which adults treat a child’s negative emotions as opportunities to connect and teach rather than problems to suppress. Longitudinal research from Gottman’s lab found that children of emotion-coaching parents showed better emotional regulation, fewer behavioral problems, and stronger academic performance compared to children whose emotions were dismissed or punished.
- Emotional Agility When Burned Out
Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
Build emotional energy rituals to buffer against daily depletion
- Emotional Intelligence When Burned Out
Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
- How Do I Deal With Emotional Burnout
After an emotional peak, deliberately allow recovery time — intense arousal depletes resources.
Recover and recharge after intense emotion
- Building Positive Emotions When Burned Out
Positive emotions can be cultivated deliberately through practices that vary what triggers them: gratitude, savoring, meaningful engagement, kindness, and awe are the most studied routes. Barbara Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build theory proposes that positive emotions expand thinking and build psychological resources over time — supported by observational research, though some specific claims (like the 3:1 ratio) have not replicated. The individual practices have varying but mostly real evidence bases.
- Connection Burnout Recovery
Treat recovery — undemanding activity after focused work — as part of the attention-management protocol, not as laziness.
Protect genuine recovery time between focus windows
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