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In today’s edition:
😊Mental Emotional Well-Being: The Burnout Spectrum
💖Longevity & Wellness: Personal Safety: A Foundation for Longevity and Nervous System Well-Being 🛡️💗
🌱Trauma Healing: Letting Go of Self-Blame (Day 2/5)
☀️Journal & Joy Prompts
👇 And more good stuff, like lots of love from Lola & Joshua, the LWD creators xo
Today’s Edition
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The Burnout Spectrum
Burnout rarely arrives all at once. It’s a slow drift from energized → tired → emotionally heavy → numb. Many of us don’t notice the progression because life keeps moving forward and rest keeps getting postponed. By recognizing where you are on the burnout spectrum, you give yourself the chance to intervene with care before exhaustion becomes collapse. Awareness is an act of protection.
When you pause to REALLY figure out how you are doing, you give yourself the space to admit “it’s time for me to add more care into my life.” It can help you figure out what level of support you may need, are you in the preventative stage or are you in need of larger intervention? You deserve care and sometimes we all need a little wakeup call to get there. Noticing the signs of burnout can give you the push to seek support. So, how have you really been feeling lately?
🌟 Signs along the burnout spectrum
💭 Mild: Trouble focusing, irritability, sleep changes.
🌧️ Moderate: Emotional fatigue, cynicism, reduced motivation, physical tension.
🔥 Severe: Numbness, disconnection, dread, overwhelm, health symptoms.
🪞 Ask: “Am I tired, or am I drained?” Tired recovers with rest. Drained doesn’t.
🌟Small steps to start prevention and/or restoration:
❤️Take a closer look at physical health supports: how are you eating, sleeping, hydrating, and moving?
💙Assess your relationship with boundaries and rest: as burnout grows, these two usually need some attention.
💚Use your tool box: turn to nervous system regulation, self-care, and mental/emotional well-being supports to bolster your life with mini-recovery additions to your daily life
🧡Ask for support: hit reply if you want to look into having a coach support your burnout recovery, see your doctor, meet with a therapist, or pick 1-2 things to implement and share your commitments with a friend.
✅ Action Step: Tonight, gently assess where you are on the burnout spectrum. Choose one supportive action: rest, movement, nourishment, or reaching out.
Personal Safety: A Foundation for Longevity and Nervous System Well-Being 🛡️💗
Feeling safe in your daily environment is a powerful predictor of long-term health, yet often overlooked. When your surroundings feel unsafe (physically, emotionally, or socially), your nervous system shifts into chronic vigilance, producing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Over time, this constant activation wears down the immune system, disrupts sleep, increases inflammation, and accelerates aging.
Research shows that those who feel chronically unsafe have higher levels of stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Creating personal safety, both external (safe home, neighbourhood, relationships) and internal (self-trust, boundaries), helps your body access parasympathetic rest, where healing, digestion, memory, and emotional regulation thrive.
Safety is not a weakness; rather, it is the precondition for growth, joy, and resilience.
Practices that build safety include: building supportive relationships, predictable routines, enforcing healthy boundaries, spending time in calming environments, and listening to your body’s signals.
✅ Action step: Ask yourself: “Where in my life do I feel safest, and how can I create more of that?” Then try to make one small change to increase your feelings of safety.
Letting Go of Self-Blame
After trauma we can get stuck searching for what we “should have done” in an effort to make sense of our pain. This week is about loosening that weight and remembering what is real: you were not at fault.
Day 2: Spotting the Voice of Blame
Self-blame often hides inside everyday thoughts, making it feel like truth instead of learned self-criticism. By noticing these thoughts with compassion rather than judgment, you create distance, enough to see that the blame is not you, but something you were taught to carry.
• 🗣️ Notice thoughts like: “I should have known better,” “I caused it,” “I’m weak.”
• ⚖️ Ask: “Is this thought caring, or is it punishing?”
• 🕊️ Imagine someone you love in your shoes: would you blame them?
• ✨ Awareness makes room for kindness.
Darling, don’t give up on yourself, you’re so worth it. Sending love 💕
📖Journal Prompt:
Building a Caring Relationship with Yourself
What does rest mean to you, not how you think it “should” look, but how your body requests it?
🌟Spark of Joy:
Let Little Things Move You
Listen for birdsong or morning sounds… let the world remind you that it keeps going, and so do you.
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