Why constant emotional calculation can quietly lead to burnout Have you ever reached the end of a working day feeling completely exhausted, yet struggled to explain exactly why? Perhaps your workload wasn't unusually heavy. Maybe you didn't spend the day rushing from one deadline to the next. And yet, somehow, you felt drained. Not because of what you were doing, but because of who you were doing it around. Maybe you found yourself choosing your words carefully. Reading the room before...

I have been thinking a lot recently about invisible habits, the small, almost automatic ways we move through the world. The kind of things we do without thinking and feel so familiar that we mistake them for personality. The sort of things that show up in the way someone apologises before asking a question, or scans a room before they sit down, or says "I'm fine" before anybody has even asked. The casual comments about not being able to switch off or “feeling the weight of the world” on...

By Jayne Morris MCC | Executive Burnout Coach, Founder of Balanceology and Author of Burnout to Brilliance I’ve found myself talking about Paddington Bear recently. He’s been on my mind since I sat down with trauma specialist Dr Susanna Petche to explore the often-overlooked relationship between trauma and burnout. As we talked about adaptation, coping strategies and the invisible load many people carry through life, Paddington appeared in my mind as a metaphor. Most of us know him as warm,...