The Burnout Remedy For Parents

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The Burnout Remedy For Parents

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• Burnout isnt exclusive to office workers. Its
  widespread among parents too.
• While not as talked about, parents are struggling
  now more than ever before, which is something
  that we need to talk about.
• Unfortunately, many parents (with dads being at
  the top of that list) dont seek the help they
  need when theyre feeling burnt out.
• Instead, they dismiss their feelings and continue
  trying to get through it independently. Which has
  us wondering, what is the burnout remedy for
  parents?

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The burnout remedy for parents that we all need.

• Dr. Ben and Dr. Ashley from The Burnout Blueprint
  have 14 years of combined experience helping
  parents with burnout.
• Their vast focus is on quality of life how do
  you feel? How are you sleeping? They always found
  that burnout was gradual it didnt happen
  quickly.
• However, they have seen burnout in parents become
  much more prevalent over the past five years and
  now much worse since the pandemic.

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Immediately overnight our homes became our
workplace.

• Dr. Ben shared that immediately overnight, your
  home became your workplace.
• We often focus on burnout in the workplace, but
  we dont usually look at the home environment,
  the working from home, and the homeschooling
  environment.
• To get well again, we must identify where on the
  burnout spectrum you are.
• Are you just starting to feel burnt out? Or are
  you deep in it? Recognizing this is the first
  step in the burnout blueprint to get the burnout
  remedy in full motion.

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Pillars of good health are hugely important.

• Good food, good sleep, exercise, and surprisingly
  doing less.
• These are all very important for parents to
  emphasize.
• Are you finding that you are working more and
  more hours but getting less and less done? Then
  its time to understand that your might be
  dealing with burnout, and its time to get help!

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How to manage parental burnout

• As common as parental burnout is, parents can use
  what psychologists have discovered about risk
  factors to both reduce their risk and mitigate
  existing symptoms by finding creative ways to
  rebalance their stress and resources.

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1. Talk about it

• Open sharing about feelings of burnout can
  facilitate social support, a much-needed resource
  for stressed-out parents short on coping skills.
• But admitting youre struggling isnt always
  easy burned-out parents often feel isolated and
  ashamed, which can prevent them from healthy
  dialogue with supportive people.

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2. Reevaluate your stress

• Open sharing about feelings of burnout can
  facilitate social support, a much-needed resource
  for stressed-out parents short on coping skills.
• But admitting youre struggling isnt always
  easy burned-out parents often feel isolated and
  ashamed, which can prevent them from healthy
  dialogue with supportive people.

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3. Make small changes

• Parental burnout can hit particularly hard
  because, unlike occupational burnout, its not
  always possible to take a vacationwhich may
  leave you feeling like you cant escape the
  stressor.
• When your stress level outweighs your resources,
  Mikolajczak suggests finding smaller ways to
  lower stress levels.

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4. Grow your parenting skills

• Parents should consider adding skills to their
  parenting toolboxes, according to Coyne.
• Because burnout is marked by a disconnect in how
  youre parenting now and who you were before,
  growing in their parenting skills can give
  parents a sense of efficacy in decreasing
  parenting-related stressors and, as a result,
  mitigate feelings of burnout, she said.

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5. Take microbreaks

• Self-care is a vital component of recovering from
  any type of stress, but its not necessarily
  realistic for everyone to plan a kid-free getaway
  to recover.
• But even tiny breaks can helpfor example,
  locking the door in the bathroom for 5 minutes to
  take deep breaths or sitting in your car to
  listen to a guided meditation after grocery
  shopping can enhance resilience in parenting.

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How burnout differs from stress

• Burnout is a long-term condition while stress
  could be temporary.
• You are usually aware of being under stress, but
  you may not notice that you are experiencing
  burnout.
• Stress is characterized by doing too much.
  Chronic stress could lead to burnout the stage
  when you disengage yourself from activities and
  people.
• Your emotions may be heightened during stress
  during burnout, you may feel emotionally blunted
  or numb.
• Stress causes urgency and hyperactivity burnout
  causes helplessness and hopelessness.

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