Burnout Diaries: Recent Episodes
Burnout Diaries & Lessons by Burnout Girl, Paula Bellostas Muguerza
Workaholic management consultant in recovery from a cortisol binge. Londoner on the outside, mad Spaniard on the inside
My favourite quote that I happen to live by is "Work hard, be kind and good things will happen". I seem to have overdone the first bit of my motto and now I find myself writing to you about life with a fried brain and on the wrong side of burnout...
Engineer and MBA by education and management consultant by trade, I am one of these people chronically unable to say no and with a terrible case of superwoman syndrome. Born in the Spanish town of Pamplona where crazy people run away from bulls, you now find me in London running like a mad woman towards some ever changing finish line of unachievable expectations, falling over and trying to pick myself up again!
A quick summary of the 6 signs you need to be watching out for to avoid burnout. From a burnout pro on the anniversary of her own meltdown!
On how I got on when I returned to the very place that caused me to burn out originally
On how I discovered that burnout could easily become a pattern and not something that happens just once
Chapter 2 of the Burnout Diaries podcast series on how I attempted to slow down after burning out. And failed