How you can avoid burnout at work

[MajestyJo]

Suffered burn out in recovery. I opened a meeting called Freedom of Recovery. The home group was Saturday night and was open topic discussion, there were five morning meetings (Big Book, Steps, Open Discussion, Steps and Traditions, Big Book and on Friday night, we had The 12 Promises (long-form and written by the man who wrote Twenty Four Hours a Day). Did the 7 meetings in 6 days, along with being a sponsor, putting meetings on in the local jail, doing one on ones at the jail, going to detox, and treatment centers. I was still doing meetings 7-10 days a week, did a lot of sharing my story at anniversaries, and was active in my home group and over the years, I help several service positions: secretary, treasurer, Inter Group, General Service, setting up and closing, and my favourite going on the door and being a greeter.

I had no balance in my life, so I handed the running of the group to two other people. I ended up going back to school for a computer course and walked away with a certificate for Business Administration on Computers. They say it is normal for an alcoholic/addict to be over achievers. I think we believe we need to make up for lost time, and we want to show the world, that we are worthy of recovery and want to do everything right, and we become addicted to busy. We still needed to fill up that space and the only way I found fulfillment was to do it with spiritual things. Even you can over stuff yourself on that, we need balance. We need to pause, take time for ourselves to fill up so we have something to give away.

Of course, in order to do all that, I needed to build a relationship with the God of my understanding.

http://www.hazelden.org/web/go/thought_24hrs