Burnout: Fighting your past and future expectations
For the past month, I have been feeling anxiety, fear and intimidation and it has risen like a giant wall of foreboding in my life. At night I would lay in bed and my heart would start racing. I have been walking in a fog for a month and I eventually went to the doctor for medication for my anxiety. What has been going on? I believe I have been experiencing a form of burnout. And, if I have learned anything, it’s that burnout breaks down our defenses and leaves us vulnerable to spiritual attacks on our body, mind and spirit. Burnout is fear based. It is often based on experiences from our past more than anything that is going on in the present. I started to get a sense of foreboding, as old memories from my past resurfaced injecting themselves into my life. I had gone through periods of rejection in the past and they were returning to haunt me. And, this past rejection was becoming a stumbling block in the present. As well, …