Avoid burnout | Joanna Denton

The life changing power of saying “This sucks”

by Joanna Denton | Oct 21, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Build your community, Rewire out of fear, Telling your story, Thrive

When fear turns into a funk. Yesterday I hit rock bottom. After weeks of unpacking a bunch of emotional stuff, bringing forth anger and mounting anxiety and all the dark stuff, my body has been screaming in pain for the last ten days. My back hurts, my muscles hurt,...

What’s Your Excuse?

by Joanna Denton | Aug 31, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

Let’s talk about the boundaries we set for ourselves. There are a lot of articles written about boundaries – mainly about setting boundaries with others – your friends or family, your boss, other third parties. Strangely, I have come across fewer articles...

Sunday night date night – with yourself

by Joanna Denton | Jul 1, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog

I was wrapping up with one of my Burnout Buster clients the other week and we were talking about what she had put in place to take time for herself and learn to breathe again. She told me about a ritual she had started that was just too darn amazing not to share with...

A week back to work, and you may as well never have been on holiday

by Joanna Denton | Jan 11, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Thrive

When I was still working in corporate, Christmas holidays were the best. We would have invariably have been working like mad in the run-up to Christmas to meet our compliance deadlines, but every couple of years I would get to spend a proper ten days off on holiday....

“Lazy, self-indulgent and unprofessional?” – no wonder I burned out

by Joanna Denton | Dec 14, 2020 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Thrive

I read something this week that rang true. In the context of a workshop on burnout, symptoms of it and ways to overcome it, participants were writing about their experience with burnout/ worklife balance etc in the chat box. I read many comments that rang true with my...

Financial security or a healthy existence? Two mutually exclusive options?

by Joanna Denton | Feb 6, 2020 | Avoid burnout, Telling your story, Thrive

It is no secret that I changed my life after burnout number two, and decided that there was more to life than VAT. I left my tax career, downsized my existence and started my own business. I have been very open about that, have done a couple of TEDx speeches, and...