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Burnout: What Happens When You Take On Too Much

Mary Thengvall on October 20, 2017

You’ve heard of the proper way to boil a frog, right? The premise is that if a frog is put directly into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out...
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Jennifer Lyn Parsons

There is a ton of awesome stuff here! I run selfcare.tech, would you want to add some of these there or mind if I did so? Definitely would love to include a link to this post, too. :)

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Mary Thengvall

please do! please also add this post from my friend J Paul Reed. I mention it in my talk but forgot to add it in my list of resources (adding it now :))
medium.com/@jpaulreed/dodging-burn...

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Salazar

So glad to see more content about this issue, and thanks for those books recommendations!

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Mary Thengvall

I'm glad it's helpful! And I completely agree about needing to have more content about it. I've been able to speak more about it thanks to MHPrompt -- an org that provides funding for travel expenses for speakers willing to talk about mental health issues at conferences.