Is The Human Design System the Answer to Career Burnout?
This year, I experienced complete and total Burnout. I went from being a generally satisfied worker at my corporate job to being depressed, frustrated, and nearly unable to get out of bed. Yes, I was working long hours. Yes, I had recently had a promotion to a new and challenging role. However, this was something different.
The reality was — my job was going well. My accounts were growing, my employees were motivated and supported, and my clients saw me as a positive asset. The issue wasn’t with the outside world’s perception of me — it was an issue with what I was doing in the outside world and how it affected me inside.
More than once I laid on the sofa at night drained beyond belief and feeling something deep inside hurting and aching, crumbling in on itself. No stranger to intense spiritual initiations, I wasn’t panicked but I finally had to admit that I knew what the message was — I was dying.
Was my body dying? No. I was generally healthy, if not exhausted and living with chronic tension headaches that had a habit of appearing by 1 pm every day at the office.
It was something deeper.
As I’ve discussed before here, I did eventually leave my job, because the Burnout was so severe. I was so done feeling dead inside that I faced my fears of…
