Tag: burnout
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How Do You Actually Rest?
Listen to your body. It’s something we hear all the time. Do we do it? Really listen? I really listened yesterday, and it was harder than you’d think. You see, I really wanted to run 14 miles with my running club this morning. The run was led by a friend (more…)
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To Take Back A Life
Yesterday morning I woke up angry. I had the feeling I had lost the past several weeks of my life to work. It was like I blinked and weeks had passed, and work had been done – and wedding planning and some sleeping – and not much else. (more…)
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Quitting Syria
On Tuesday, I left all my Syria WhatsApp groups and unsubscribed from Syria update emails and live trackers. Afterwards I felt a huge sense of relief. I have more to say about it – about what changed in my life these past seven years: moving from single to married, age (more…)
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How To Make A Life Resume
A few years ago, I quit my job and intentionally took some time off work. I didn’t have a timeframe in mind for how long I would be unemployed, but it ended up being six months. So it was that in that spring and early summer of that year, you (more…)
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How to Set a Boundary Across Cultural Lines (Or Not)
This is part 3 of 3 in my series on burnout. Catch up here: Part 1: When I Finally Got Overwhelmed By My Humanitarian JobPart 2: I Can’t Remember A Time When I Wasn’t Tired Can I cut Alaa out of my life? Stop responding to his texts forever? “Yes!” (more…)
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