Coaching practices for How to Deal with Extreme Burnout at Work

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• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• I push flat-out all day with no real breaks, treating rest like something I have to earn after the work is done
• The thing I once loved most has become pure obligation
• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• My performance keeps sliding, my mood and sleep are tanking, and my gut reaction is to train harder to push through it

Practices that may help

1. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
2. Oscillate between effort and recovery
   Pulse hard work with real recovery instead of grinding in a flat line.
   The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
3. Recover intrinsic interest after it has been crowded out
   Intrinsic interest that has been undermined can often be partially recovered by removing the reward and reconnecting to original reasons.
   The Overjustification Effect: When Rewards Kill Motivation
4. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
5. Distinguish functional overreaching from non-functional overtraining
   Functional overreaching (planned short-term overload) leads to supercompensation; non-functional overtraining is a breakdown that can take months to reverse.
   Supercompensation
6. Use a shutdown ritual
   End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
   Deep Work, Made Practical
7. Name which burners are actually on
   Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
8. Track cumulative training stress, not just individual sessions
   A single hard session is not the risk — it is the week-over-week accumulation of stress without matching recovery.
   Supercompensation
9. Intense exercise: discharge the physiological arousal with brief intense movement
   Do 20 jumping jacks, sprint for a minute, or any intense exercise to burn through the stress-response chemicals.
   TIPP: DBT’s Crisis Skill for Rapidly Lowering Emotional Intensity
10. Regulate the level of distress in the system
    Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
    Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical

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