Rest helps, for a while. But if the exhaustion always finds its way back, the heightened emotions, the anxiety or overwhelm - the truth is that burnout was never really a rest problem to begin with.

A lot of advice for anxiety focuses on managing symptoms in the moment: breathe through it, reframe the thought, push past it. These tools have their place, and I use many of them with clients. But if you've been managing anxiety for years without it ever really lifting, the missing piece is often that managing isn't the same as healing. Genuine change tends to happen on three levels at once.