Curt and Katie talk about the different types of burnout. We look at the differences between employee and entrepreneur burnout, including how to prevent it and how to treat it.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
In this episode we talk about:
The difference between burnout for employees and entrepreneurs
How the different nature of how we work impacts how/why we burn out
Employee burnout: cog in the machine, dehumanization, lack of agency
Entrepreneur burnout: hustling for income, decision fatigue, facing change with rigidity
How to prevent the different types of burnout
The importance for putting systems in place to decrease the tendency for entrepreneurial burnout
When passion and obsessive efforts can also cause burnout
The danger of having a lack of balance between passion and rest or personal life
Types of burnout – overload, underchallenged, neglect
Moral Injury, locus of control, and the impact of unhealthy work environments
The challenges of having to work outside of our “zone of genius” in starting a private practice
Different types of shame related to impostor syndrome, “hobby practice,” charging too much
How excuses can get in the way
Ideas on how to address burnout
