This May celebrates 5 illustrious and inspiring years since The Burnout Queens donned their crowns.

It all happened because one day our business coach cheekily said to us, “You ARE the Burnout Queens!”  At first we thought, “Nah, we couldn’t…could we?  We are serious psychotherapists and educators.  Can we unleash our quirky and still get our message across?”  Of course we could, so we did!

Our mission was simple…
To tell women that burnout is no way to live!

Pretty well all of our clients were Highly Sensitive, gifted, accomplished, and successful women.  They were also exhausted, overwhelmed, discouraged, frazzled, and fed-up from living a Burnout Lifestyle.  They didn’t realise that being burned out is not a normal state of affairs, it had just become their normal way of living.

5 Things Burnout Can Utterly Ruin In Your Life!

• Health
• Relationships
• Career
• Finances
• Your dreams

We weren’t novices when it came to burnout!  We had studied women’s burnout for years.  We also knew about burnout from the bottom of our hearts and souls.  We knew it from our own experiences, you see, we had both burned out more than once.

With lots of soul searching, lots of know-how, and lots of courage we changed our way of living from one of burnout to a life of balance.  In fact, we are willing to go further, our lifestyle went from burnout to balance to bliss! How could we not share that message, inspiration, and all of our practical solutions?

We (The Burnout Queens) sat and pondered and talked (of course over tea and cake) until we figured out how we had beaten back burnout and come through the other end healthy, happy, and with our irreverent senses of humour intact!

We know the recipe for turning burnout on its head!
We know the freedom in living your unique and quirky potential!

5 Things You Need To Know About Burnout Right Now!

• Burnout is more prevalent than ever.
• Burnout is never simply about juggling the stuff of your life!
• Each generation, from the Boomers to Gen Z, experience burnout.
• Burnout is more, much more, than ‘just stress’.
• You can live a burnout free lifestyle. Imagine!

The media talks about burnout from the perspective of too much stress, too much pressure, and having too much to do!  We know that burnout isn’t about juggling the stuff of your life, women are great at juggling, and it isn’t about calendars or prioritising, no…

Burnout is about who you are!

Highly Sensitive women are particularly prone to burnout.  You see your BOP Factor sends you straight to the front of the line in the burnout queue.  If you don’t understand your BOP Factor (your burnout personality) well, my love, it’s down right impossible to go from flat on your face to back on your feet!

5 Essentials (we know, yawn) for Preventing Burnout Starting Now

• Eat well
• Exercise moderately
• Get your sleep
• Say ‘No’ more than you do now
• Learn to relax

The thing is, if you are feeling fried, toasted, singed around the edges you may run screaming from the room (if you had the energy to run!) at the very idea of changing-up your life.  We are here to tell you that renewing your life is doable; small everyday changes can mysteriously and magically add up to living burnout free forever.

5 Reasons Darling You Have To Say NO To Burnout!

• If you want to find the real you.
• If you ever want to enjoy having energy galore.
• If you are dreaming about discovering new dreams.
• If you want your relationships to be richer and sweeter.
• So YOUR Life will be more fulfilling and full!

I mean to say, what are you waiting for?

If you are living a burnout lifestyle, if you are teetering on the edge of burnout, you need to stick with us.  We know, we believe, and we want to share with you just how…

Life beyond burnout is bliss!

Until Next Time…Grab Life by the Crown!

P.S.  The BOQs would love to hear from you!  Leave your wisdom and comments in the box below. 

Sometimes, without any warning, it becomes obvious that the direction you might be headed in is looking, shall we say, questionable.  Well, that is exactly what happened to us.  January usually signals the beginning of unlimited opportunities and possibilities, however, this January felt different.  Instead of being excited by the plans we had put in place we were feeling exhausted and unsure of the next step.  We were, to put it in burnout terms, fried!

The Holiday Season had been hectic: in a good way (yeah, surprise house guests) and in a bad way (yuck, surprise viruses).  We had been counting on that time away from work and other usual obligations to catch our breath and quietly think (in our HSP way) about dreams of the future and plans for the year to come.

In December we had stripped our vision board of last year’s memorabilia ready to embrace these new dreams, ideas, and plans.  Surprisingly, the board remained blank and every time we walked past it, it glared accusingly at us…

“Come on, fill me up with dreams and ideas,
you know you want to!”

We did want to, we had a plan, or so we thought.  In truth, it turned out we were as blank as that board!  Tellingly, the only thing that remained on our board was one of our favourite signs, it reads…

“Tear Up The Plans”

And so we did.  What had seemed so right, now simply didn’t.  It’s inevitable sometimes we know and sometimes we don’t.  We change, we grow, we get wiser, gain clarity, and sometimes we gain confusion.  And you know what?  It is all OK.

It’s OK to not know.  It’s OK to feel unsure.
It’s OK to take time till you know.

We were at that proverbial fork in the road and couldn’t decide on the ‘right’ direction!  So we did what we tell our clients to do, sit down in the middle of the road and wait.  Pushing pause on plans gives you time and space to ask yourself some probing questions, lots and lots of questions.  You know us, we love questions more than we love answers!  Questions like:

What do I feel is missing?  What would make me bounce out of bed in the morning?  What view do I want to see when I look out my kitchen window?  What don’t I relish about life these days?  What could I do without right now?  What can’t I do without?  What do I wish I had done before now?  What do I imagine myself doing in the future?

It’s not about regretting, it’s about discovering a new starting point.

Our original plan was actually going to put us behind rather than move us forward so the plan had to go.  We were disappointed although relieved.  We still occasionally groan that we, “should have pushed onwards” but only because pausing the plan is different from our usual ‘fear be damned’ response! To an HSP wired for burnout (but too wise to go there) it feels a bit like plodding, a bit like we gave-up, even if I’m to be truthful, a bit like failing.  But I know it is none of that!  It is using our HSP intuition, creativity, and smarts.

Arriving at a fork in the road can be brilliant!  It’s a sign.
It’s an opportunity to Tear up the Plan.

So that is where we are at.  And, you know what?  New plans are already forming.  Life never stands still.  So, if you are at your own fork in the road like we are and you feel confused about which direction to choose (we are there with you sister!), sit down and have a think.  The future is not going anywhere.  It could be time for you to tear up your plans and stage your own creative revolution.  Want our advice?

Take your time, be open to the unexpected,
and have a nice cup of tea…with cake of course!

Until Next Time…Grab Life by the Crown!

P.S.  The BOQs would love to hear from you!  Leave your wisdom and comments in the box below. 

P.S.S. We’re now on Instagram! Our handle is THEBURNOUTQUEENS, of course!