Ep116 Overcoming Learned Helplessnes

03/14/24 • 25 min

Are your feeling burned out and stuck because of learned helplessness? It can happen to anyone!
In a burnout context, Learned Helplessness can simply be an old pattern of thinking amenable to gentle self-supporting change. e.g. for me, around academic success.
Overcoming it will help you regain control of your life. Becoming curious about where and why you feel helpless can help you see through its false ideas and find ways to support yourself, become stronger, and feel better overall.
N.B. If your experience is trauma-related, please instead seek medical/therapeutic help.
Show Notes
Q1: What learned helplessness do you have?
Q2: When did you first learn this helplessness?
Q3: How or why did you feel out of control then?
Q4: How could you think about yourself now, that empowers you and acknowledges your strengths?
Self-Compassion, Kristin Neff
Ep 6 Stop Feeling Out of Control
Ep 21 Setting Boundaries
Ep 23 Imposter Syndrome
Ep 26 Helpless Rage
Ep 33 I Can't Do It
Ep 35 Taking Your Power Back
Ep 56 Victimhood v Authority

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Ep115 When You Feel Disrespected

One of the most common indicators of burnout is feeling disrespected.

We tend to feel unacknowledged, under-valued, unsupported and used. Which we naturally don't appreciate when we're also giving our all as highly skilled and over-worked professionals.
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Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan

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Burnout Recovery - Ep116 Overcoming Learned Helplessnes

Transcript

[00:00:00] Hi everyone, my name's Dex Randall, and this is the Burnout to Leadership podcast, where I teach professional men to recover from burnout and get back to passion and reward at work.
[00:00:22] Righty- o, then. Hello, my friends, this is Dex with you again this week for an episode on this, rather insidious enemy, learned helplessness. And last week I spoke about self advocacy, which is a skill that can very profitably be learned in burnout recovery, and which I do teach to all my