Well-Being Consultation for Professionals

The “Great Resignation” is alive and well for a reason.

When you spend so much of your life preparing for your career, you tell yourself it will all be worth it someday. Your time on the bottom rung of the career ladder is behind you. Yet the longer you’ve spent “paying your dues,” the worse the value proposition looks.

For those considered “professional,” the pandemic helped us better understand what matters. So many have responded by making significant changes at work these last few years, which is a strong signal that corporate culture has struggled to adapt to the changing times.

When you think about the changes needed, it’s not all that surprising. The goal of the corporate system devised over 200 years ago was to produce widgets while relying on human beings behaving like widgets, too. Psychology wouldn’t even become a discipline until 100 years later. At that point, state of the art was locking people away in asylums. So, we can give a little grace that all this probably seemed like a good idea at the time. But it certainly hasn’t aged well.

We know better now, so we can do better. Here’s some hopeful news: you don’t need to wait for sweeping organizational change – or get a new job – OR engage in “quiet quitting”– to take the next step in your evolution!

It’s time for self-care beyond bubble baths and blowing off steam.

The notion that a healthy work environment requires a person to repair themselves from the damage done at work regularly would be absurd if it weren’t considered culturally acceptable for so long that it seems normal. I wonder, “How many other norms like this have snuck into your life?”

Finding “work-life balance” won’t cut it, either. For one thing, as the saying goes – work comes before the rest of your life. And have you ever noticed how the hyphen in that phrase separates these two domains the same way others expect you to put your life on hold whenever there’s an uncompleted task at work?

If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we’ll keep getting what we’ve always gotten. Prioritizing your well-being starts with learning to value yourself as a whole person – not just in the ways that others consider us valuable to the organization.

The next chapter of the story is yours to write!

As the author of your life, you no longer need to dismiss, deny, and suppress what you think and feel just because others prioritize their comfort over your experience. You can learn to listen to what your mind and body tell you is essential and channel that energy in valuable ways.

You don’t have to decide whether to stay or leave a position that no longer works for you before you can move forward. You can learn to envision how to carry out either choice with integrity as things unfold.

You don’t have to participate in the hallucinated urgency of hustle culture to find a sense of belonging, purpose, and competence. You can cultivate a right-sized perspective on your work and move forward with intention.

This approach is the difference between living to work and working to live. And it’s entirely negotiable. We can work together to make your professional life become what you want it to be, allowing you to enhance your well-being.

Let’s find time for a short consultation call to discuss what you need and how I might help.