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@drbensearle.bsky.social hey, thanks for your research into burnout! It’s really validating and while i had the best of intentions to do #recovember, last month actually turned out to be hell NOvember. So I’m setting my coordinates for this month, and day 2 is thank someone. That’s you! Ta!
If you’ve followed my advice on days 25/26, you now have a hope-inspiring personal goal to work towards in December, and a plan for how to achieve it. For #Recovember 30, schedule time in your calendar to make your goal happen.
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3: #Recovember
This was the first time I've tried to do anything like this. Conceive and run a month-long psychological wellbeing awareness initiative? On my own? Across 5 social media platforms? It wasn't perfect, but for a first attempt, I think it went well.
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Slide text reads: List 3 things that went well this month. November is nearly over! It’s a good time to identify three things that went well for you or for which you feel grateful.
Image of the November schedule for the Recovember challenge. For the text-only list of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
#Recovember Day 29: List 3 things from this month that went well.
Daily gratitude (Day 5) is healthy, but you can also benefit by identifying three things you're glad went well this month. What were yours? I'll share mine in the comments! 1/4
#achievements #gratitude
#Recovember Day 28: Spend 30 min on a hobby or on arts/crafts.
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Slide summarises text from the post. For the text-only list and descriptions of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
Slide summarises text from the post. For the text-only list and descriptions of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
Slide summarises text from the post. For the text-only list and descriptions of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
Snyder and colleagues argued that one way to create feelings of hope in our lives is to identify something in our lives we would like to see improved, refine this into a goal, and to work towards accomplishing that goal. 2/2
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#Hope #goals #recovember
Slide summarises text from the post. For the text-only list and descriptions of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
#Recovember Day 25: Pick a goal you'd like to achieve.
By setting specific, measurable goals, we gain a greater sense of what we should be doing and whether we’re making progress. But Snyder's Hope Theory reveals another benefit: #goals can help us feel hopeful. 1/2
#GoalSetting #goalsettingtips
Day 24 of #recovember: Try exercising during a break from work.
(That's it, just what it says on the packet. Surely I don't need to explain them all?)
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We all carry too much shame about things we haven’t done. I’m not just saying this because we shouldn’t feel ashamed (although this is true - life is complicated, and whatever social media shows you, no-one is on top of it all).
I’m also saying it because the shame makes it *worse*. 3/5
#recovember
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#Recovember Day 22: Schedule time to do a thing you keep avoiding.
Do you have tasks that you've been avoiding? Have you been feeling ashamed about avoiding them?
Today we're going to work on self-forgiveness. 1/5
#selfforgiveness #procrastination #Shame
Slide summarises text from the post. For the text-only list of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
For the text-only list of Recovember challenges, go to https://mindonthejob.com/recovember-for-recovery/
Compared to diarising, telling others requires more focus on story details (which means more positive reflection benefits). Listeners hear an uplifting story that may have useful info. Your helper also gets wider recognition for a good deed. Everyone wins! 2/2
#Recovember #psychology
On #recovember Day 5 I wrote about gratitude, and on Day 13 I wrote about kindness. Today (Day 21) I'm encouraging you to spend at least 5 min chatting about someone who helped you.
Gratitude reflection diaries are beneficial. But why keep these reflections to yourself?
#gratitude #psychology
#Recovember Day 20: Spend 30min improving personal strengths.
If #mastery and #learning are good for daily recovery, is there a form of self-improvement that boosts recovery? The answer is yes, but you have to choose the right approach. 1/3
#strengths #characterstrengths #dailyrecovery
#Recovember Day 19: Ask someone for help (or offer help).
On Day 10 I said it can help daily recovery to sometimes share details of what's causing you stress. Today I want you to actively seek help -- or to offer help to others. WAIT DON’T SKIP PAST! 1/3
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#Recovember Day 17: Assess your use of personal boundaries.
Personal #boundaries are decisions about how you want to live your life, turned into rules you apply to yourself (not to others). Today we’ll look at how well you apply your personal boundaries. 1/5
#stress #stressmanagement #psychology
You'd be surprised how refreshing a walk can be when done in a less familiar place. Spending time in natural settings (e.g., in bushland or near bodies of water) can be very relaxing, so if there is a place like that not far away, try getting your exercise there! 3/3
#recovember
You can also get stress-reduction benefits from resistance training (e.g., lifting weights for 30+ min) or from moderate-intensity aerobic exercise (e.g., walks of 60+ minutes).
And if all you CAN do is walking, then consider occasionally walking somewhere different! 2/3
#recovember
#Recovember day 16: Try a different kind of exercise.
On Day 8 I told you exercise can reduce stress. Today, I'm suggesting you try a different kind of exercise.
Intense aerobic exercise has stress-reducing benefits, but not everyone is healthy enough for this! Let's look at some alternatives. 1/3
That’s all I’m asking of you today!
We’ll talk more about the next steps on #Recovember Day 23.
#occupationalhealthpsychology
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CATEGORY 3: THINGS THAT WILL NOT CHANGE
These are demands that won’t change, regardless of what you or the people around you can do. It’s ok to put demands in this category, but it’s important to acknowledge how different they are from the demands in the other two categories. 6/7
#recovember
AND ALSO
* A well-prepared conversation with this person might encourage them to take this action.
I would include in this category any stressful demands that affect other people as well as you, and where collective action might encourage change. 5/7
#recovember #consultation #collectiveaction
* train someone to share the load or take your place;
* make time to learn a faster/easier method;
* try something that might help;
* pay for someone to do all or part of it for you;
* reduce expectations on yourself for this demand; or
* swallow your pride and ask for help. 3/7
#recovember
CATEGORY 1: THINGS YOU CAN CHANGE
These are demands that, if you put in the time and effort, you can probably make less stressful. A demand belongs in this group if there’s a chance you can:
* reduce your involvement (or just walk away);
* renegotiate your responsibilities; (cont'd) 2/7
#recovember
We’re halfway through #Recovember!
Back on Day 7 I wrote about the value of taking a realistic look at the work demands you were finding most stressful. Today, take your list of stressful work demands and sort each into one or more of three categories. 1/7
#stress #iopsychology #stressmanagement
#Recovember Day 14: Record next steps for incomplete goals.
On Day 6 I explained why we keep thinking about incomplete tasks. The same is true of important goals. So even if we finish a task, we might still get intrusive thoughts about work if more tasks are needed to meet our goal. 1/2
#iopsych
Thinking about kindness shown by others is a form of positive reflection, and a more specific form of gratitude practice (see #recovember Day 5), which means it's good for interpersonal relationships and psychological health. 3/5
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Your #Recovember challenge is to write down, post on social media about, or merely take a few minutes to think about three people who have shown you kindness. It could be small acts of kindness people showed you recently, or major kindnesses people showed you longer ago. 2/5
#Recovember Day 13: List 3 people who have shown you kindness.
November 13 is World Kindness Day, so I have (kindly?) two kindness-based challenges for you today. 1/5
#kindness #psychology #wellbeing #gratitude
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#Recovember Day 12. Take 30+ min to learn about a topic of interest.
Mastery activities (ones that bring feelings of accomplishment, see #Recovember Day 4) promote better recovery outcomes than passive activities like staring at a screen.
#iopsychology #stress
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#Recovember Day 11: Rest & reset after difficult tasks
The harder a task is (even if the difficulty is making ourselves get started), the more energy it drains. So when we finish a difficult task, it’s ok to take a proper rest to recover some of that spent energy.
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