Breaking the Cycle of Burnout & Stress
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What are the signs of chronic stress and burnout?
Welcome to the You Come podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Jolly Jarvis, and today I am joined by the very lovely Jen Wilson, and she's going to introduce herself in just a moment. We're going to be talking around overwhelm and the kind of busy being busy society that we tend to find ourselves in. So Jen, over to you to start off with. Please introduce yourself to us.
Hello, I'm Jen, and I help women who are overwhelmed and burnt out to get organised, take back control and start living a joyful, happy life again.
And then that's the kind of crux of it, isn't it? Is it actually fun? Are you actually happy and enjoying life when you are running around, feeling overwhelmed, feeling super busy? And I think when we really search for it, most of us are like, no, it's actually not. It's not that nice. It's not that fun.
No, it's not fun at all.
So Jen, tell us a little bit about what got you into this.
My own personal experience, I was chronically stressed for over a decade. And in that time I experienced two burnouts. So originally brought on by work, a really stressful job, but then not having anyone really to tell me it wasn't normal to feel that way. Nobody to guide me and say what I could or couldn't do. So I just kind of got on the best I could with life.
How did Jen Wilson overcome her own burnout?
Although looking back now, I wasn't really getting on very well with it at all. But I just muddled my way through being chronically stressed for a really long time. I didn't realize at the time, but looking back, I realize that now. And then I hit my second burnout as a business owner. And that came about when my son was only four. And that was really my turning point because it was just really significantly impacting my relationship with him. And I just thought, what am I doing? This has got to stop. So I promised myself from that point on that I was never ever going to allow myself to burn out again. And I started making lots of changes. There was a lot of trial and error of trying to find ways to manage my stress for the long term. to avoid hitting burnout again. I then worked with the coach myself because I got so far that I felt better, but there was still something missing. So I got some additional support and it was during that time that I had a light bulb moment and I thought, hey, do you know what?
I could I could retrain and I could help other people, help other women. And that's my mission now, really, is to help other women so they don't have to suffer alone like I did. And what was missing?
Like, can you can you kind of express that better now? Like, you know, you felt better, but you didn't. There was just something not quite still fitting.
Yeah, it's still quite hard to put into words. So I made a lot of changes. So I put a lot of boundaries in place. As a business owner, I wasn't very good at that at one point. You feel like you've got to be there all the time to please everyone, especially when your business is quite new. So I didn't have boundaries. I was always rushing my son to bed because I had work to do. Looking back, I was so stressed. I was incredibly unproductive. So although I was working really long hours, I wasn't actually achieving very much at all. So boundaries was one, sort of saying no, asking for help more from family and adding that self-caring, trying to take better care of myself. So all those things added up to feeling better, but I was still really, really, I call it unsettled.
I just, something was just amiss. My mind was racing. It just went 100 miles an hour all day, every day. I didn't know whether to do my business, whether to get a job, whether to do this, whether to do that. It was just, yeah, it was a really strange time. When I started working with a coach, what I realized was missing was mindset. And we spent a lot of time working on mindset, which I'll say now is still ongoing. It's probably one of the hardest things to address. I can see why it's the last thing I address. It wasn't a conscious decision. I didn't actually know a lot about mindset then. I didn't really know a lot about it, but I learned from Rachel, my coach, that's what it was.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the signs of chronic stress and burnout?
0:06–1:24
2
How did Jen Wilson overcome her own burnout?
1:24–4:34
3
What role do boundaries play in managing stress?
4:34–7:00
4
How does mindset affect stress levels?
7:00–10:17
5
What strategies can help break the cycle of overwhelm?
10:17–12:36
6
Why do women feel the pressure to maintain a perfect image?
12:36–17:57
7
How can we prioritize our well-being amid daily demands?
17:57–21:26
8
What is the importance of self-care in avoiding burnout?
21:26–25:37
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