Coaching practices for How to Handle Burnout as a Mom

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• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• I tell myself my family comes first, but when I look at where my week actually went it was almost all work, and I can’t square the story I tell with where the hours really landed.
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• I’m sick of logging everything
• Every blow-up hits me like a brand-new emergency and I’m just putting out fires all day

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
4. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
5. Maintain an unsolved problems list
   Write down recurring triggers so they become solvable problems rather than repeated emergencies.
   Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
6. Build energy rituals that automate oscillation
   Small, precise routines at transition points remove the decision cost of shifting between engagement and recovery.
   The Energy Audit
7. 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
8. Set a non-negotiable floor for each burner
   Define the minimum for each domain that, if crossed, signals an emergency — and protect those floors.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
9. Protect genuine recovery time between focus windows
   Treat recovery — undemanding activity after focused work — as part of the attention-management protocol, not as laziness.
   Attention Management, Made Practical
10. Use guilt-free play to recover rather than double down
    When avoidance happens, recover with genuine rest — not punitive extra work.
    The Now Habit, Made Practical

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