When I was recovering from my burnout, the phrase “Slowing down to the speed of grace” kept popping into my head. My intuition told me this phrase contained the answers I needed to recover and make sense of why I had burned out (twice!), as well as wisdom for living a different kind of life. …
One day, when I was lying in bed, recovering from my burnout, I wanted to write but I did not have the energy to pick up a pen. Instead I recorded the following as a voice memo on my iPhone. “I feel such despair. Everything I thought I had built in my life is lying …
I wrote about my burnout being a call from my soul, calling me back into conversation with my inner wisdom. I knew that I could not go with my old strategies of trying to get better but I thought if I did nothing, I would be ill forever. I could not see another way to be, …
In 2016 my life fell apart. I was in bed, ill, exhausted and scared about the future.I had been a high school teacher who worked crazy hours, neglected my own needs and burned out. I had lost the career I loved and it broke my heart. When I recovered, I trained as a coach because …
Since I have found myself completely unable to write a blog post for over a month, I have been thinking a lot about resistance and how it shows up in my life. I seem to have resistance to continuing with things that previously seemed to be a good idea. Strangely, these are often things I …
Last week I wrote about Tools for Recovery, here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/07/tool-for-recovery-part-1-yoga/ and here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/11/tools-for-recovery-part-2-juicing/ I tried to follow these plans to the letter and managed 10 days on juice and 17 days of daily yoga, until the inevitable resistance set in. I missed day 18 of #yogarevolution. I woke feeling tired and sore, in addition to the daily yoga I …
Last Friday I was in the middle of preparations for a New Year birthday lunch and the compilation of a memory book for my daughter when I was interrupted by 2 mini strokes.[Edited: It turned out to be a hemiplegic migraine]. Instead of the plans I imagined I found myself in an ambulance with sirens …