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Send us Fan Mail Setting boundaries is a concept that gets used and recommended all the time when it comes to work-life balance and personal well-being. And yet, so many of us struggle with understanding how boundaries are supposed to work and how we can start implementing them in our work or personal lives. This week, Maria talks with Rosanna Gill, a Trauma-informed Breathwork & Personal Tran...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is all about how taking breaks is a necessary part of making work fun! Taking a break doesn't have to mean that you don't love your work, in fact, taking a break can actually help you come back more rejuvenated.  Natasha also announced  that she will be taking a short break from the podcast until early 2023 as she takes a maternity leave to spend...

Send us Fan Mail Asking for help is something a lot of us have been conditioned to think about as a last resort, and as something that may signal a lack of resourcefulness. As a result, many of us would prefer to work ourselves to exertion than deal with the mean things we would think about ourselves if we asked for help.   But what if asking for help actually demonstrates emotional intelligence a...

Send us Fan Mail This week we continue our discussion about seasonality and the cycles of our lives. We talk about how, even in the periods of our lives that are not our favorites, we can find things that are nurturing and beautiful, while still allowing ourselves to not love other parts of the experience.  We also talk about the concepts of "positive" and "negative" emotion an...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about the idea that, just as nature around us has seasonality, so do our lives. We go through periods of time that are harder than usual or periods of not having as much energy as we want and that's all completely normal. But we have been taught that we need to show up in pretty much the same way every day, and we berate ourselves so much whenever we are una...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about the different energy behind challenging ourselves for fun vs. doing challenging things because we think they will make us feel better about ourselves. When we work out, we know the difference between building strength in a muscle and straining a muscle to injury. But when it comes to our work and energy, our culture teaches us that straining is the way to g...

Send us Fan Mail Often when something doesn't go according to plan at work, we have been taught that the first thing we need to do is assign blame - either to ourselves or to someone else. We think assigning blame is the key first step towards fixing the situation but, in reality, thinking someone is at fault usually keeps us stuck in one place, ruminating, getting angry, and generally not lo...

Send us Fan Mail How often have you been stressed about a project at work, and then felt annoyed at yourself that you are stressed, because you "should" be able to handle stress better by now? Or made a mistake and blamed yourself because you "should" have been able to avoid it since you'd worked on something similar in the past? Both of these are versions of the premise t...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we talk about the made-up, unspoken rules that exist in many workplaces around how we should act, how we should present ourselves, and what is deemed acceptable and professional. We share our own experiences with navigating made-up rules at work, including some personal anecdotes from our own careers. We also offer some practical tips on how you can take better care of...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we chat about how to go about deciding what you want and actually work towards it *without* talking yourself out of it! This episode is not about learning how to never quit or how to nonstop hustle until you achieve your goals. Instead, we talk about how deciding what you want and letting yourself work towards it can be a loving and compassionate thing...

Send us Fan Mail Check out this week's episode where we talk about why it can be helpful to take some of the pressure off about your job. Often, we conflate high pressure work with high quality work! But that premise is not actually true...and all that notion does is make our work seem more intense and way less fun.  Here's the thing - we don’t need to coerce ourselves into doing our wor...

Send us Fan Mail Check out this week’s episode where we talk about why it’s so important to let yourself be grateful for the things that you’re actually grateful for! Many of us end up withholding gratitude because we think that being grateful means that we can’t change something - that we have to stay stagnant where we are! But that's actually not true. You can be grateful for something AND...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, we question the notion that we “should” be grateful for things. Because telling ourselves that we should feel a certain way never works! In fact, “shoulding '' yourself into being grateful for your job doesn't actually create a feeling of gratitude - and forcing yourself to be grateful, doesn’t leave much room to explore how you actually feel...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we chat about why it’s not actually helpful to create anxiety & worry about unpleasant experiences in advance - how doing so, doesn’t actually help us solve the negative situations when they come up! Usually generating worry and anxiety in advance, leads to us discounting  our own resilience and capacities to work through challenging situations whe...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about all things self-care. What it is culturally defined as, what commercials teach us it is, how that societal definition heavily intersects with various systems of oppression, and how you get to be the ultimate authority of what self-care means to you.  Book a free consult call with me: restovergrind.com/work-with-me Email me: info@restovergrind.com Download m...

Send us Fan Mail Perfectionists have ridiculously high standards for their own work, and assume everyone else holds them to the same standard. But most people have a much more realistic assessment of your work that, the majority of the time, is a lot more generous than your own assessment. This week, we talk about the practice of questioning our own evaluation of your own work and cultivating the...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about how focusing on what’s going right in your work can actually serve you. Our brains have a tendency to default to negative thought patterns and to look for what’s going wrong...the problem with this pattern is that it makes doing your work feel terrible - but it doesn’t have to be that way! You can choose *on purpose* to look for evidence for how you ARE doi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about "busy" work. You know, the type of work that is not urgent or even necessary, but that we engage in when we want to feel "productive" and, more importantly, when we are trying to avoid a task that is bringing up some emotional resistance for us. Tune in to hear why turning to "busy" work is incredibly understandable and normal,...

Send us Fan Mail This week is part two of making work fun by cutting yourself some slack. In this episode we talk about why letting go of your perfectionist tendencies might actually create space for you to show up and do your work in ways that feel *more* joyful and fun.  Book a free consult call with me: restovergrind.com/work-with-me Email me: info@restovergrind.com Download my free videos on t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about how giving yourself some slack by allowing your emotions and offering yourself some compassion actually makes your work (& your life) less stressful.  Book a free consult call with me: restovergrind.com/work-with-me Email me: info@restovergrind.com Download my free videos on the 3Ps of Exhaustion (People Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Procrastinati...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we talk about how fun is usually defined in our culture and why we recommend broadening that definition and exploring additional ways in which fun is already a part of our lives. Meet your hosts: Maria is a burnout coach for professional women. She works with high-achieving, perfectionists who want to heal burnout so that they can take a step back and enjoy their lives...

Send us Fan Mail In our first episode, we talk about what work is, and how we often define work in ways that are unhelpful to us. Meet your hosts: Maria is a burnout coach for professional women. She works with high-achieving, perfectionists who want to heal burnout so that they can take a step back and enjoy their lives without sacrificing their success. To work with Maria one-on-one, go to resto...