You’ve got to name it to tame it. What does that mean when it comes to how we manage in high-stress situations?
In this second half of the conversation on burnout and managing stress, author and mental health advocate Dr. Jessica Metcalfe walks listeners through how to address burnout and anxiety on a daily basis to move out of the burnout phase. Naming how we are actually feeling, be it anger, anxiety, or fear, is the first step to finding strategies to get ahead of our stress. (Check out the first half here).
Metcalfe says it’s key to figure out how stress shows up physically, too. With a better handle on how we feel mentally and physically, we can start to put together a plan for managing stress. It could mean knowing when to take a walk, listen to music, make a list, or phone a friend.
She says that recovering from burnout looks different for everyone, and it can take years to develop the tools to get ahead of anxiety and burnout.
One thing Metcalfe says farmers should prioritize is sleep, even if they’ve convinced themselves they function fine on only a few hours. She says that it’s common to cut back on sleep when trying to find more hours in a day, but sleep is just so important to overall physical and mental well-being.
“Try and pull time from somewhere else,” she says by putting a plan in place ahead of extremely busy seasons, such as seeding and planting or harvest.
Listen on to the 100th episode of the Mind Your Farm Business podcast!
Check out this first half of the conversation on recognizing burnout!
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