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193. Cultivating Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Perimenopause (Jolinda Johnson)

April 10, 2025 • Red School • Season 14 • Episode 193

When we enter the autumn of our menstruation years in our 40s and start to experience what many call perimenopause, we can easily think we should keep pushing through even though our bodies, minds and emotional landscape are transforming profoundly.

(Alexandra and Sjanie, the co-founders or Red School call this phase the Quickening, or the autumn of our menstruating years).

Our guest today specialises in helping women in midlife recover from burnout so they can rise stronger and thrive longer. Jolinda Johnson is the author of Resilience: 10 Ways to Recover from Burnout and Exhaustion, and works as a Life and Health Coach, as well as a Menopause Coaching Specialist.

In today’s conversation we explore the four phases of burnout; from feeling wired and tired, to health challenges to full-on exhaustion, all the way to an official burn out diagnosis and major life changes. Jolinda explains how tracking these phases offer us many opportunities for course correction before we find ourselves flat on our back. So this one is for you especially if you’re in perimenopause, but it relevant to anyone experiencing burnout in any life phase.

We explore:

Jolinda’s definition of burnout, which is chronic stress without recovery, is characterised by exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased capacity for your life roles.
What menstrual cycles changes, as well as other health symptoms can show us about our current levels of burnout.
Why we need to set better boundaries with ourselves, and how to do it.

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