Coaching practices for How to Overcome 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.
• I’m sick of logging everything
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• After I’ve blown a deadline I lash myself with guilt and try to make up for it with a brutal all-nighter, which wrecks me so badly that I just crash and avoid everything again

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. 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
4. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
5. 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
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. 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
8. 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
9. Maintain an unsolved problems list
   Write down recurring triggers so they become solvable problems rather than repeated emergencies.
   Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
10. Cultivate rest and play
    Treat rest and purposeless play as essential to a wholehearted life, not as laziness.
    The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical

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