I think I could be the poster boy for being burned out, but every burned-out person I have ever known feels the same way. We all seem to have the same symptoms and reactions although everyone deals with it in a way that fits them.

I burned out while serving an exciting and healthy church, doing a job I loved and having the most success I would ever know. I kept a far too busy schedule while companioning far too many people through unbelievable conflicts and pain, but, as I hope to show in this blog, the schedule, or the kind of issues I tried to help people face did not cause me to burn out. Who I was inside and how I related to me was the ultimate cause.

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