Danielle Roberts

There's also something called an energy management audit where for a week, if you were to track your time from the moment you woke up to the moment you go to bed and you figured out what your energy patterns were.

What can you do to either redesign your time or change up your environment to sustain your energy levels?

So in a workplace, that could look like I'm going to take a meeting with my camera off or I'm going to take it on a walk.

Or if I know I have a particularly draining meeting at 12 p.m.

every single day, I'm going to take a five-minute block off.

And I'm going to get up and just like shake out my nervous system, do some jumping jacks, put on my favorite song and just like close my eyes and give myself that rest for 30 seconds.

I can set a reminder on my phone to do a breathing exercise just to get back into our bodies a little bit more.

Pushing when you have no more capacity or resources to push and thinking that you need to do it all by yourself.

We live in a highly individualistic society.

And I mean, especially women, we take on so much emotional labor on top of just the day-to-day.

So I would say if you are feeling stuck

on a problem at work where you're feeling super stressed, the solution is not to push through and put in more hours.

That is going to be not only a disservice to the work itself, it's going to be a disservice to you.

We can't self-help our way out of systems of oppression or burnout.

And I think sometimes we really just need to let some of the plates fall and break.

Because if we continue to take on everything and our employers see like, oh, you know, Danielle's got it.

She can keep doing all of this and it's fine.

Then they're just going to continue to expect that out of me.

But if I say I'm letting these two things fall and break and it's the company's responsibility to fix them, then maybe I will actually finally get some help.