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I feel burnout when I do not block time off my schedule for self care and schedule clients in the slots because I feel if I do not the clients will not return for more business or if i do not make a certain amount of money I will feel worthless that I do not deserve things like a couple of degrees warmer in the house or cooler in the summer. I wont even buy new underwear. I do not feel deserving.
I am someone, because of my mental health issues, need decompression time more so than most and I become very stressed easily. To much interaction with people also cause me burnout. If I have two days in a row of 6-9 clients a day I can feel it welling up in me. So I know that my comfort zone is 5 clients a day and I function so much better. Anything less than 3 clients scares me that I am not making enough or my business is failing and I freak.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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