S6, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Burnout - Why do we burn out? What is emotional exhaustion? How can we prevent it?

Friendship Therapy

Emma Reed Turrell

Society & Culture, Relationships, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re talking about burnout and that particular kind of emotional exhaustion that can knock us off our feet and leave us feeling utterly depleted.

Emma and Elizabeth both share their own personal stories of burnout and explore what they learned from their experiences.

Emma talks about the work she does with organisations to prevent burnout in the first place and how to balance individual responsibility with a workplace culture that rewards healthy behaviour. And Elizabeth brings in the work of psychiatrist and author, Gabor Maté, who believes the physical symptoms of burnout to be manifestations of psychological stress.

We talk about how to recognise symptoms of burnout, how to treat it and, most importantly, how to understand what it was trying to tell you in the first place.

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Listen to Elizabeth’s conversation with Gabor Maté on How to Fail: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-fail-with-elizabeth-day/id1407451189?i=1000624455746

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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.

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Social Media:

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

Emma Reed Turrell @emmareedturrell

Best Friend Therapy @best.friend.therapy

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and
0:05.8	podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist.
0:10.3	That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private
0:15.2	practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and
0:18.5	we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their
0:22.0	sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and
0:27.0	wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to
0:31.8	understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only
0:37.2	people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and
0:41.8	throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we
0:46.5	chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one
0:51.7	therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy.
0:57.4	Hello, Best Friend Therapy listeners. I feel like we should have a nickname for you.
1:02.3	BFT's may be anyway. BAFTA's. Oh yeah, I digress. Emma has just done
1:08.8	something before we started recording as a joke. It has made me laugh so much that I
1:14.6	need to gather my thoughts. I can't tell you what it is because it was like a
1:18.2	mime. It was a room. Who was? You needed to be there. You needed to be there.
1:23.9	But today it's actually very apt that this is our last recording of the day.
1:29.9	And it gets a bit silly doesn't it? It does. It's that feeling that you got in
1:36.2	double maths. I was like, how's it 13-year-olds? Yeah. And the school bells are
1:42.4	back to go. And you know, you can go and buy a sherbet fountain. And you're
1:47.0	copy of Bunty. Hey, that's what. Do I mean Bunty? We could be Bunty or Mandy.
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