“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
That quotation from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, fits my recent life perfectly!
You’ll know I’m deep in prepping for the launch of RE-DISCOVERED, my short yet powerful legacy book. And I’ve been burning the book candle if not at both ends, pretty near!
Well, last week included a couple of presentations and an overnighter in Wembley attending a book awards dinner, as above.
BTW… I’m holding RE-DISCOVERED purely for marketing purposes and not for an award as the thing’s not even published yet!
Anyhow…
I’d been feeling a bit doddery recently and was even more so that night. Carrie, above in red, a superb PR professional, suggested it could be exhaustion given my candle-burning.
To cut a long story short, after a great celebration the night before, the next morning I felt dreadful after a rough night… I know what you’re thinking but as I don’t imbibe, it wasn’t that!
I’d woken with the “dreads” in my stomach, a bit shaky physically and with low, low mood.
AND, at that exact moment, I knew precisely what it was.
Freakin’ BURNOUT! 🤪
W T F …
I hadn’t done that to myself for at least a decade. But, there I was, sitting in the hotel room, knowing I needed to get home pronto.
Days off-air doing nothing followed.
They were filled with good food and hydration, much snoozing, some inspirational reading plus Dr Bach’s Star of Bethlehem remedy and a B12 patch behind one ear, and…
SHAZAM!
Almost a week later I’m back to 80% and continuing to take exceptional care of me.
Once upon a time, I used to burn out fairly regularly until I got wise to its self-sabotage AND how to prevent it.
But, hey…
Passionately driven by my shit-or-bust book project, I’d gone unconscious and the “burnout anti-life gremlins” had taken their opportunity to bite me on the bum again…
They just love to get you when you’re not looking!
So, watch out for them, woman…
What might you be doing unconsciously that requires a turnaround and radical self-care?
Love and wild warm wishes…
Helping midlife women nourish their souls to empower their lives
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