Workplace Burnout Is A Real Thing! Here’s What You Need to Know.

Originally posted on the Tamron Hall YouTube channel:

Jennifer Moss joins our premiere week episode titled “My Burnout Battle” with tips and warning signs to conquer burnout. Plus, the award-winning author also tells the #TamFam about her new book, “The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It.”

Transcript of some of their conversation about burnout and working parents:

“Jennifer Moss joins us and welcome to the Sam Fam. Thank you, you know um so you saw Alicia, how do you describe this epidemic, Jennifer?

“It's it's a catastrophic and massive problem. I think COVID has done a really good job of highlighting that it's out there, but it's also made it trendy and people aren't realizing how serious it is. When the World Health Organization identified burnout as institutional or societal, calling it workplace stress left unmanaged, they were trying to highlight how serious it was. They had just come off of research finding out that 700,000 people die every year from overwork alone. It has huge impacts and so we need to take it more seriously.

And, that's why I love Alicia's story and her ability to come back in this post-traumatic growth way and share that there are ways to come through this. We saw Rebecca and I listened to your audience as we were talking and she said “I'm joyful when the kids come in and when they leave I cry”. That was a gut punch because so many of us have that mask where you're like ‘Okay let me do what's next, let me do this’ and then you go in a corner and you are just empty.

It's interesting because I've done a lot of research and in education and teachers they're at high risk because they're caregivers and we see personalities at risk like Alicia and myself, and yourself, and I'm sure lots of folks here. When you're a perfectionist, when you're high performing, when you're a person that you can't say no and you feel as a woman there's this expectation to go harder and do more. And then you're also responsible for the family and it just piles up and any time that you show that sort of weakness you feel like oh I'm not living up to my expectations I'm not being super mom.”