Overcoming Working Mom Burnout

Prioritizing, practicing and role modeling boundaries to prevent burnout with Alison Butler

Alison Butler is a Chief Wellness Officer and creator of the program The Energy Answer. Certified in Mental Health First aid, Alison shares how to go beyond recognizing problems to actually practicing self-care and setting boundaries. She talks about moving from saying to doing in organizations, starting by creating psychologically safe cultures, but also through role modeling by leaders at all levels. Find your free burnout guides at www.DrJacquelineKerr.com/free-guides

Creating humanity in the workplace to prevent burnout with Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske Zummer

Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske Zummer wrote the book Humanity Works Better. It summarizes their approach to coaching companies towards more meaningful connection and how to develop skills to improve human interactions. Their book and conversation is full of so many examples of scenarios in companies where coaching individuals and teams to take on different perspectives and different levels of awareness improved connection. And in many situations recognizing the exhaustion in the room has been key to successful progress. Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Asking yourself some simple questions to prevent burnout in others with Mita Mallick

Mita Mallick is the co-host of the Brown Table Talk podcast. She writes thought provoking posts on LinkedIn. And is the Head of Inclusion at Carta. She draws upon her own experiences of not belonging as a child and later in the workplace. She didn’t always know how to speak out, but once she found her voice, she has been a dedicated advocate for change. Mita’s advice is always very practical and to the point. In this episode, she poses quite simple questions that we can all ask ourselves to see what more we could be doing to advance belonging and prevent burnout.

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Valuing your time to prevent burnout with Eve Rodsky

Eve Rodsky is the author of Fair Play and Unicorn Space. The documentary Fair Play also outlines her journey as an activity for equality. Her books provide tools to 1) start a new conversation about time in the home and how to value all time equally and 2) how as a mother you can make yourself unavailable to your family to spend time creating something meaningful for yourself and others, guilt-free. Valuing your time and having your time valued by others is such an important part of burnout prevention, because when we give our time away for free we are left feeling depleted and unappreciated.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

 

Matching burnout solutions to your stage of burnout with Dr Sharon Grossman

Dr Sharon Grossman is a psychologist and coach, she hosts the podcast Decoding Burnout and is the author of The 7E Solutions to Burnout. Sharon walks us through the 12 stages of burnout from Freudenberger and North providing examples that we can spot in ourselves and our colleagues. She also then suggests different solutions depending on whether you have the energy to self coach or whether you need support and accountability from an external coach. Sharon loves working with high achieving women in medicine to help them find different ways to thrive in a challenging environment.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Flexible work to prevent burnout with Karin Tischler

Karin Tischler is a job sharing expert and podcast host who helps companies understand the benefits of flexible workplace arrangements. More than location flexibility, employees want flexibility when they work. Karin shares the many advantages to having two brains in a single role, and how it opens up the talent pool to increase expertise and diversity at work. Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Taking time to heal and modeling self care to prevent burnout with Christine Anastasia

Christine Anastasia is a coach and mom of 3. She joined me shortly after the birth of her third child, which sounds crazy, but she had changed the script for #3. She was prioritizing herself as much as her child. She was focusing on her healing and realized that she was modeling this not only for her daughter but also for her mother who was a strong woman, but an over-giver. Christine was learning to set boundaries and break the cycle and in this she was finding more joy in mothering than ever before.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Using emotional intelligence to prevent burnout with Farah Harris

Farah Harris is the author of The Color of Emotional Intelligence. She draws upon her experience as a therapist to guide organizations through cultural change around understanding what emotional intelligence is and how it is applied by different groups in organizations. Some groups have to apply emotional intelligence just to survive and others to thrive. In her practice Farah challenges organizations to ask the key questions to unlock what are the daily actions that need to change to align with corporate values.

Creating social change to prevent burnout with Katherine Goldstein

Katherine Goldstein is a journalist and social activist. Her podcast the Double Shift challenged the status quo of motherhood in America. In this episode, she shares the challenges of being in the newsroom as a mother, but also what she has learned from interviewing successful change advocates. One key message is: don’t do it alone. Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Supporting parental leave to reduce burnout risk with Dr Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell

Dr Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell wrote the Parental Leave Playbook and provide support through the Center for Parental Leave Leadership. Maternity leave has such an important connection to burnout because it creates a trajectory for moms returning to work depending on how long and how much support they have had during leave. Moms can also be going into maternity leave with high levels of stress, or can be returning to stressful situations with very little support for that transition.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.