throwing "resilience" in the bin on top of "mindfulness" and "self-care"
all useful and legitimate concepts until they came to mean "what if mental health didn't require any resources or accommodations"
I’m also increasingly convinced “healthy work-life balance” actually means 32 hours of work a week at most
"how do we tell our lessers to stop whining while still coming across as compassionate and empowering?"
I had a professor for developmental psych who always said “resilience is a property of communities, not individuals”
That's interesting! In one of my courses resilience was presented as an individual trait, but one that researchers were still struggling to understand. Now I wonder if it's because the individualistic framing prevented them from seeing community connections.
One time my company held a seminar on burnout and the main tip to help burnout was "Try not to get burnt out in the first place" and I legit just cried. I don't know why my burnt out brain thought a seminar would help but it most certainly did not.
There are two kinds of burnout advice I've found:
🥰 Deep breathing! Yoga! Mindfulness! Long walks! Talk to a friend! Consider therapy! 🥰 Just do it on your own time and don't send us the bill, peon.
😐 Yeah, so you're going to need to be unemployed for like three months minimum. If you can't afford that it sucks and there's no good answer. Try to save up I guess. 😐
