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Podcast: The Things We All Carry
Episode: Chad ”Burnt Out”
Description: Dostoevsky wrote
"You will burn and you will burn out. You'll be healed and come back again."
Those words resonate with me. In some manner, small or large, we burn every day. Day-to-day life alone burns us and then we add traumas, work schedules, irregular sleep, poor diet, and numerous other stressors. I'm not sure if burnout is inevitable but in the first responder world, it's hardly rare.
The second part of that message is vital though...."you will be healed and come back again". That healing starts once there's a...