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3 Stages of Burnout Recovery: How to recover from burnout while working

Gabe Kwakyi
7 min readDec 13, 2022

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View the full burnout stress cycle infographic here

While leaving your job can make recovering from burnout a lot easier, don’t despair if you are not in a position to leave your job. There is still a path to recover from burnout while working.

The exception to this is the toxic workplace, where leaving such a working environment is a prerequisite to burnout recovery.

Here are 3 steps for recovering from burnout while working, based on my work and research as a burnout coach.

1. Find ways to allow your brain/body to properly rest

Burnout is a body and mind state that arises after chronically insufficient rest/recovery.

Burnout occurs over time because the body is not able to properly process the stress that accumulates during work. This process of the body managing stress accumulation is referred to as “the stress cycle,” by PhD burnout researcher, Emily Nagosaki, in her book, Burnout.

A key characteristic of burnout is working more and taking care of the body less. This can cause the…

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Gabe Kwakyi
Gabe Kwakyi

Written by Gabe Kwakyi

A curious mind and a passionate personal development coach, specializing in life, career, and business coaching for people in the technology and business fields

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