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Burnout, warning signs and listening to your body

The show keeps returning to people who pushed until their bodies forced a stop. It covers the warning signs, and argues for choosing to rest before collapse. In 2025 the thread becomes a special focus with specialists. Petro repeatedly asks why people wait until they break.

How it developed: It starts as a mindfulness topic (2018), becomes lived experience in the break stories (2024), then a specialist focus (2025). #041 disputes the workload explanation, and #043 points at managers.

The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.

What was said

“burnout is nothing more than a sustained period of stress.”
— Steven Heyman, guest · #010 Steven Heyman | Yoga and enabling change through mindfulness · [25:51]
“So please listen to your bodies. I think it's so, so important to listen to your gut, to see the warning signs,”
— Thea Weeks, guest · #031 Intentional Interludes | Thea Weeks · [38:56]
“take purposeful time out because you're choosing to, not because you've burnt out.”
— Briony Liber, guest · #035 The Re-ignition Pause | Briony Liber · [35:39]
“it looks quite positive with what you're doing, but then drive merges into overdrive.”
— Laura-Jean Evens, guest · #040 Special Focus on Burnout | Laura-Jean Evens & Lurinda Maree · [06:26]
“So burnout is not a weakness. It's a feedback loop to say you're not aligned.”
— Shannon Royden-Turner, guest · #041 Special Focus on Burnout | Shannon Royden-Turner · [25:32]
“the winter's going to grab you somehow. So let's plan for it instead.”
— Amy Martin, guest · #042 Special Focus on Seasonality | Amy Martin · [06:39]

Episodes in this thread

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