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Reflections on the Art of Being Human at Work.

Executive Stress: Understanding & Preventing CEO Burnout Overcoming burnout includes looking closely at what is driving you to exhaustion. While it’s often a mix of C-suite stressors and personal tendencies that amplify burnout, the antidote to burnout is looking closely at what got you here.
Big Feelings and the Compulsion To Work What fuels your relationship with work? If you’re not working, what happens for you? What does your organization or workplace culture say about work-life balance, and how does everyone at the office behave regarding work-life balance? What are the unspoken office rules about how we work?
Taking Joy Into Your Hands Experiencing joy doesn’t make us disloyal to our pain. But a life focused solely on the various sufferings that grace our humanity leaves out the other even more juicy parts of a wholly-lived, soulful life. 
When Your Soul Comes To Take You Back Learning to build awareness of our nervous system also allows us to learn its wisdom and lean into it when the going gets tough, and the emotional currents are rough. Here, we learn to return to our very self so that we can ask: Where am I, now? Who am I now? What do I need to return to?
No Going Back Folks come to us at various stages of burnout, moments of transition and trial, or when they know what got them here won’t get them where they need and want to go. The choice is to opt for something better, something more suitable and sustainable, and that may feel entirely new at the edge of what’s possible.
The Sound of Settling For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn’t decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked…
Unfolding “You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are…
Crying is not unprofessional. It’s human. Sensitivity is a virtue, not a disgrace. I was seated across from my new boss, just 90 days into my new role overseeing operations and community for a professional network.…
Fresh Tracks Growing up in West Central Wisconsin, I know intimately the inhospitable season that is winter. Parker Palmer notes in Letting Your Life Speak, that these winters will drive you crazy…
Still Standing Still Years ago, I wrote that founding, running, and working in a startup can often feel as if you’re often feel as if you’re standing still while your hair’s on fire.…

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