How a Dishcloth Became the Benchmark for the End of my Burnout

Finding contentment in the things that would send me straight to an anti-anxiety pill last year. I didn’t know that changing out a dishcloth would signal the burnout is over.

Burnout.

The dictionary defines this as:

emotional and physical exhaustion resulting from a combination of exposure to environmental and internal stressors and inadequate coping and adaptive skills. In addition to signs of exhaustion, the person with burnout exhibits an increasingly negative attitude toward his or her job, low self-esteem, and personal devaluation.

The extreme physiological and psychological manifestation had slowly crept over my body and mind, like moss devouring my backyard boulders, over the last few years as a sole female startup founder. That ‘issue that is gaining attention (Burnout)’ didn’t care how it was described and thrived in the shady recesses of its home, creeping across every area until it cemented it’s host in one fixed state.