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Welcome to O-Zones Burnout Information Center

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  1. What is Burnout? 
  2. Physical Burnout
  3. Emotional Burnout
  4. Energetic Burnout
  5. 5 Burnout Symptoms for Leaders, Divorce Victims, and New Start-Up Entrepreneurs

What is Burnout?

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What is Burnout

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What Burnout is not!  Burnout is not simply exhaustion. 


  • It IS a multi-layered depletion that happens when physical, emotional, and energetic systems are overworked for too long without restoration. 


For leaders, divorce victims, and early business start-ups, burnout often shows up as a quiet collapse masked, for awhile by competence.


  • Burnout is a signal... NOT a personal failure: The emotions and physical manifestations of burnout scream that something must change, not just how you work, but what you believe about yourself and how you manage trauma triggers.  
  • Burnout changes your identity... it can be temporary, but without the right management, how you see yourself in burnout could become permanent. 


Re-Creating yourself through burnout, is ALL about identity.  Re-Identity is how you heal and move beyond Burnout successfully.


At O-Zones burnout might be the best thing that ever happened to you!

3 Types of Burnout

Physical

Physical

Physical

Physical Burnout is the most visible layer. It appears as: 


  • chronic fatigue, 
  • disrupted sleep, 
  • lowered immunity,  
  • emotional tension, 
  • frequent illness. 


Your body is signaling that it has been in survival mode too long and no longer has the reserves to keep compensating.


  • Chronic Illness with illusive, difficult to diagnose and treat symptoms, is another side-affect of physical burnout. 


Burnout is not a personal failure.  It is a systemic imbalance that happens when your to-do lists outpace your mind's  ability to handle it all.  So, when all those deadlines, responsibilities, and trauma exceeds your body's abiltity to recovery quickly... who you believe yourself to be - your identity - becomes fused with survival. 


The Solution is not more discipline or productivity. Recovery requires restoring mind/body nervous system regulation, rebuilding capacity, and reconnecting to your unique coherence across body, emotions, and energy.

Emotional

Physical

Physical

Emotional Burnout runs deeper. 

It is the loss of emotional range, resilience, and meaning of the life you live. 


Emotional Burnout is Loss of Identity given over to Survival. 

  • Leaders may feel detached from people they once cared about, loss of motivation, imposter syndrome, decision paralysis, loss of identity. 


  • Divorce Victims may feel numb or emotionally flooded, suffering brain freeze, decision paralysis, loss of self-trust, night-terrors, PTSD triggered fears and lost in a life they don't recognize - Identity frozen. 


  • Start Up Founders may lose their original sense of purpose. Decision-making becomes heavy, motivation drains, and even small demands feel overwhelming.


The Solution:  As with Physical Burnout, the solution is not more discipline or productivity.  Recovery requires restoring mind/body nervous system regulation, rebuilding capacity, and reconnecting to your unique coherence across body, emotions, and energy. 



Energetic

O-Zones is more than just coaching

O-Zones is more than just coaching

Energetic Burnout is the least recognized yet most damaging layer. 

  • Clarity has gone
  • It feels like your life spark is gone.  
  • You feel depleted, unable to connect mind and body in a coherent way.  
  • People around you start to notice you've disconnected emotionally.
  • You experience mind-fog and brain-freeze
  • You may experince decision paralysis
  • You may feel like your intuition has deserted you
  • You may feel unsafe, unprotected, and needing to self-isolate after a day at work or visiting with friends.

Energetic Burnout occurs when your inner capacity to hold stress, uncertainty, and responsibility collapses. 

O-Zones is more than just coaching

O-Zones is more than just coaching

O-Zones is more than just coaching

We're more than just one service to meet one need.   O-Zones is a multi-platform opportunity to integrate what you need, where and when you need it.  


We know that your life is like a multi-faceted diamond.  When one facet is out of sync... every other facet feels the strain.  


When we strategize to solve one problem, we have discovered that other life areas will need re-alignment.   we draw on all of our services to round out your experience into a full 360 solution. 



What Others Are Saying

5 Burnout Symptoms for Leaders, Divorce Victims, Start-Ups

1: Decision Fatique

3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

2: Emotional Flattening (Pre-Burnout)

Persistent Cognitive Overload

Professionals feel mentally “on” all the time—tracking risks, watching markets, reading between leadership signals, and pre-empting impact.


Divorce Victims experience similar threats with the added financial insecurity, reading the spouse for danger signals, career credibility, family responsibilities.  


The Business Start-Up is holding all the strings to success or failure.  Every decision feels make or break.  


How it shows up

  • Slower decisions despite high competence
     
  • Over-checking data, emails, or scenarios
     
  • Mental exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix
     

Why it’s different now
Uncertainty forces the brain into continuous threat-forecasting mode. There’s no psychological off-ramp.

2: Emotional Flattening (Pre-Burnout)

3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

2: Emotional Flattening (Pre-Burnout)

Emotional Flattening is that limbo place where you don't feel excited about those things that should be exciting and pleasing.  It's also where you aren't motivated to do anything! Not your job, not your life, not your love! 


It isn't exactly depressed, but just flat!  


Reduced Motivation and/or Satisfaction

  • Not sadness—diminished emotional range. 
  • Wins don’t land. 
  • Progress feels muted.


Divorce Victims are disadvantaged feeling flattened right from the start leading into the Divorce.  


Start-Ups grow into overwhelm at the size of the project often leading from excitement to overwhelm flattening.  


How it shows up

  • “I should feel good about this, but I don’t.”  
  • Detachment from work that once mattered  
  • Loss of pride without loss of performance

  

Why it’s different now

When effort doesn’t correlate to outcomes (due to forces outside one’s control), the nervous system conserves energy by disengaging emotionally. 


3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

Constant scanning for risk, political shifts, organizational signals, or economic tremors.


How it shows up

  • Over-preparing for meetings  
  • Difficulty relaxing even during downtime  
  • Heightened reactivity to small changes  


Divorce Victims begin long before the divorce is a thing, constantly scanning for risk, dangerous emotional shifts within the marriage, often personal or economic danger.  Divorce is a constant earthquake!  Hypervigilance is necessary... and so are the skills to manage hyper-vigilance! 


Start-Ups don't start in hyper-vigilance but may slid there as the risks and decisions get more impactful.  


Why it’s different now

Political and economic instability extends workplace stress into a 24/7 background condition. The body never stands down. 

4: Somatic Stress Symptoms Without a Clear Cause

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

3: Hyper-Vigilance Masquerading as Professionalism

Burnout is increasingly showing up in the body first, especially in high performers who override early warning signs.


How it shows up

  • aches, jaw clenching, gut issues  
  • Energy crashes mid-day or late afternoon
  • Insomnia - Night Terrors
  • Pain/illness resistant to diagnosis

  

Divorce Victims may show the most somatic stress symptoms, PTSD triggers, and undiagnosable symptoms of Chronic Illness.  


Start-Ups:  If the person is already high stress, somatic symptoms will escalate as the stakes of success increase. 

 

Why it’s different now

Chronic uncertainty keeps stress hormones elevated. The body absorbs what the mind rationalizes away.

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

Professionals begin questioning who they are inside career systems that feel unstable or misaligned.


How it shows up

  • “If things fall apart, where do I actually stand?”  
  • Anxiety about relevance, security, or legacy  
  • Loss of long-term vision replaced by short-term survival focus


Divorce Victims:  Begin questioning who they have become long before the divorce begins, escalates as they lose their balance and anchor as the divorce stakes become more dangers.  Re-Idententity is essential for survival. 


Start Ups only begin questioning their creator identity IF/When, their new business is in danger OR if the identity of the business is threatened.  

  

Why it’s different now

When external structures feel unreliable, identity—once anchored in career stability—starts to wobble. 

A Critical Insight: Priority: Identity Restabilization

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

5: Identity Loss: Questioning of Role, Value, or Trajectory

 Leadership Burnout is not classic burnout caused by overwork alone.


It is burnout driven by prolonged uncertainty and lack of control, which requires regulation, coherence, and identity stabilization, not just rest or time off. 


Regulation: when a person's body and brain (nervous system) are working together in alignment, each reacting in the right sequence of awareness, reaction, and action to in-the-moment events. 


Coherence:  when a person senses and reads

their environment, recognizing safety and danger AND feeling in control of their space and their environment.  Read the space, read the people, read the threat... and feel confident reacting. 


Identity Stabilization:  knowing WHO they are, proving their abilities, and controling their reactions and actions. 

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