Ep. 56: A Conversation About Burnout Recovery with Michelle Goodloe

The Wright Conversations

Michelle is the owner and psychotherapist with The Essence of Healing LLC, providing individual and couples psychotherapy to adult residents of Georgia and Illinois.

With a professional background in providing clinical interventions, compassion-based services and statewide advocacy for people impacted by domestic violence, child abuse and stress-related conflict, the focus of Michelle's career has been to develop and institute accessible and resourceful avenues of support through The Essence of Healing LLC and her wellness-resource website, gmichelle.com. Gmichelle.com offers busy, caring professionals the opportunity to make self-care a practical part of their lives.

She is also the creator of three self-care centered books, Self Explore, Self Restore, The Self Care Investment, and I Own My Magic. Michelle facilitates interactive workshops for non-profit and private organizations that experience challenges with addressing self-care, compassion fatigue, and professional burn out.

Michelle is a Taurus Sun, a Sagittarius Rising and Moon, a mom to an 18-month-old, a fan of breakfast foods and chicken wings, a Ravenclaw, and she is always the hat in Monopoly, and her favorite way to relax is having her feet up with a book and a snack.

Hey everyone! Welcome to today’s episode of the Wright Conversations Podcast! For today’s episode, I’m joined by Michelle Goodloe to talk about burnout and compassion fatigue, how society has redefined feeling tired, and how we can start to recognize our burnout-fueling habits. We also talk about the power of habit stacking, how burnout affects those of different racial backgrounds, and the realities of mom-guilt.

Let’s delve in!

In this Episode You’ll Learn:

• [01:25] A bit about Michelle.
• [02:41] Michelle’s Monopoly strategy.
• [03:53] Michelle’s introduction to social work.
• [08:25] Defining burnout.
• [09:26] How society has redefined feeling tired.
• [11:57] Recognizing burnout-causing habits.
• [18:29] Put your needs first.
• [22:28] Why tiredness has been rebranded.
• [25:26] The burnout narrative along racial lines.
• [27:43] Overcoming the familiarity of burnout culture.
• [30:24] Mom-guilt.
• [34:12] Michelle’s words of wisdom.

Quotes:

• “Burnout is long-term feeling of exhaustion, disconnection, or even disinterest in what you do because you’re minimizing, denying, or even ignoring your human-ness.” [09:04]
• “Feeling tired is a normal human feeling. Burnout is not a normal human experience.” [12:28]
• “You’re supposed to say no sometimes.” [29:03]
• “Overextending ourselves repeatedly can impact our physical health.” [29:17]
• “It’s possible to recover from burnout. It’s possible to prevent burnout.” [34:20]

Connect with Michelle Goodloe

Website: www.theessenceofhealingllc.com.

gmichelle.com.

Instagram: @thegmichelle.

Twitter: @thegmichelle.

LinkedIn: Michelle Goodloe.

Connect with Rachel Wright

Website: https://rachelwrightnyc.com

Instagram: @thewright_rachel

Twitter: @thewrightrachel

Resources

The Self Care Investment.

I Own My Magic: Self-Talk for Black Women.

Self Explore, Self Restore.

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