5 Signs You're Experiencing Psychic Burnout
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And What You Can Do To Recover
Updated 2021.01.10
Have you been feeling exhausted? Getting irritated by emails you’ve received? Don’t want to help another person?
Welcome to the burnout club.
If you’ve experienced any of these feelings, you aren’t alone.
Burnout is physical or mental collapse caused by overwork and when you’re a psychic medium, helping others on a spiritual journey, you may experience this.
Many psychic mediums are business owners, entrepreneurs, admin staff, sales and marketing, and accounting.
Psychic mediums aren’t just mediums, they often can be the axis of support for others.
In order to provide that support, it’s important to remember to take some time for yourself and care for your own mental needs. The reasons I am bringing this up in the blog today is some of my earlier readings were very taxing on me, psychologically, as well as emotionally, so I am familiar with this topic.
Below, I want to talk about how to tell if you are burned out and need a break, and then at the end of the post, what you can do to give yourself that break -
5 Signs You’ve Burnt Out
You’re irritated when anyone asks you for help with anything
Because your job is to help, getting irritated when someone asks you for it, is often the opposite of how others want to see you, so you may feel shame for even feeling irritated. Let it go, but take a break.
You aren’t a “bad psychic” for not caring or not being compassionate, you just need some off, fun time.
You’ve started to experience built up energy in your hands, arms, or neck
Feeling tense is the start of the slippery slope to burnout. Physical symptoms can be spiritual needs that are tapping you for attention. Tension is an early sign our bodies send to cue us that it’s time to slow down.
You don’t know where to go next and you don’t have any ideas for it either
Feeling lost is a good sign of burnout. If your creative juices are normally flowing and you’re all out of juice - it’s because you need a break - and you’ll need to take one likely before more inspiration comes along.
You don’t have the energy to respond to social posts
It can wait.
You’ve verbally snapped about an insignificant topic
To me, it’s insignificant if it’s not on fire or someone is not going to die that moment, if it stays unresolved for a time. You may have other definitions of what is insignificant.
Releasing steam in small ways is a sign you’re under too much pressure and you need to give yourself some time away.
Have you experienced any of these?
If so, congratulations, you’re normal.
The above signs are the primary symptoms of burnout, however, you can almost always recover from burnout by just taking a break.
You get burned out because you are not giving yourself enough space away from your work to actually rest.
Here Are Some Tips To Recover From Burnout
Create An Email Buffer
Create a ‘bounce back’ like this through Gmail Canned Responses to give yourself some virtual barriers for a little more room to breathe in the form of a day or two before you have to reply. It’ll help. Immensely.
Develop A FAQ Pages
Creating one will save you so much time.
Over time, you'll see that many of the emails, questions and inquiries that you’ll receive as an intuitive business owner are similar.
Start making a list of the most common things people ask you and put it into a FAQ page, or into blog posts answering the topic. Then, send a link to this FAQ page in your bounce back email. Here’s my FAQs page for reference.
Set Work Boundaries
When you give yourself space from ‘helping’ other people, you give yourself the much needed time to rebound, and refill that well - so that you can go on giving in a genuine, full-feeling way.
Take A Client Break
Consider following this monthly schedule for your private readings: Three Weeks ON/One Week OFF, or three months off and one week on, whatever you can handle.
Readings can be powerful and giving a lot of them without any breaks can cause intuitive burnout, especially without time to recover.
Develop Alternate Revenue Streams
If private sessions are your main income source, and you aren’t making any unless you are offering them, taking time off can be hard to fathom.
To solve this, after you rest, consider products you can sell that people can purchase without you right there. This works your breaks in. Create some things you can sell that don’t require your immediate energy - guided meditations, courses, other downloadables.
Working a few of these ideas above can help prevent care burnout in the future and give you space to douse yourself in Lavender or go to the beach. Even the people who focus their lives on helping others still need to take the time to help themselves.
To end, intuitive burnout is normal, and there are ways to catch it and return to self-care sooner rather than later for better resiliency and satisfaction at work, overall.
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