The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life more than anything else. The way we protect ourselves from loss may be the way in which we distance ourselves from life. Protecting ourselves from loss rather than grieving and healing our losses is one of the major causes of burnout. Very few of the professionals I have treated for burnout actually came in saying that they were burned out. I don’t think most of them knew. The most common thing I’ve been told is, “There’s something wrong with me. I don’t care anymore. Terrible things happen in front of me and I feel nothing.”
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