Dec 15, 2022
‘Tis the season for functioning in survival mode. With busy schedules, to-do lists, holiday plans, and the usual end-of-year stuff, sometimes all we can muster is just “good enough”. We can’t always be in peak achievement mode, and that’s okay.
But when survival mode becomes less a temporary phase, and more a chronic state of being, there’s a problem.
How can we tell if survival mode is becoming more maladaptive and toxic? What can we do when we’re stuck in survival mode?
In this episode, I share what a long-term state of survival tells us and what we can do about it.
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
- The good thing about survival mode
Is working in survival mode ever acceptable?
- Chronic survival mode vs. hibernation
Sometimes we slow down to prepare for a big leap forward, but how do we make sure that’s what’s happening?
- The giant caveat of functioning in survival mode
How can we tell if our survival mode is a symptom of something deeper and far more serious?