Aug 14, 2026 · 22 min · 16 segments
What if what you’ve been calling exhaustion, anxiety, or feeling like you’ve lost yourself is actually burnout—the result of spending years giving so much of yourself away that there was nothing left…
Ashley FisherHost
Shawn BigbyHost
My husband, in our spare time when we are kind of just trying to chill out in the evenings, will oftentimes from different rooms or the same room send each other Instagram reels that we think are funny or poignant or whatever.
But what I found is that burnout can actually become a state of being if we aren't aware.
The Cleveland Clinic describes burnout in five phases, and though most of this may sound as if it applies to our jobs or our work, I want us to think about it as impacting any and every area of our lives.
My husband, in our spare time when we are kind of just trying to chill out in the evenings, will oftentimes from different rooms or the same room send each other Instagram reels that we think are funny or poignant or whatever.
But what I found is that burnout can actually become a state of being if we aren't aware.
The Cleveland Clinic describes burnout in five phases, and though most of this may sound as if it applies to our jobs or our work, I want us to think about it as impacting any and every area of our lives.
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