The Burnout Fix by Jacinta M. Jiménez

Author:Jacinta M. Jiménez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

After my coaching client Colin decided to confide in his closest colleagues about his feeling of overwhelm in response to his husband’s battle with cancer, his coworkers compassionately responded. They ended up volunteering to cook for his family. Every week, one of them would show up at the office with a cooler with prepared meals. As a result, Colin and his colleagues ultimately all became much closer, securing support from one another. Colin’s humanness wasn’t left at his workplace’s door; it was invited into his workplace, and it was acknowledged and responded to with compassion. I dream of a world where magic moments of belonging such as this are promoted every day by everyday people in the context of work. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic and differences have the potential to leave us divided and disconnected, we desperately need more belonging. This isn’t just about random acts of kindness. This is about the intentional effort to employ compassionate practices to increase connection. Best of all, by doing so, you also create more belonging for yourself as well. In the words of Robert Kennedy, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”35 Through the compassionate act of buying my father those Buster Brown shoes, Mr. Sims sent out a ripple of compassion that continues to expand far beyond my father. You can do this too.

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