7 Things to Do When Your Tank Is Empty

“Resilience burnout” is real

Karen Nimmo
Forge
Published in
5 min readSep 7, 2021

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You’re running on empty.

You’re fatigued. You’re lethargic. You have things you’d like to do — or you should do — but you can’t get fired up about them. Or anything.

You’ve had low patches before and you’ve always been able to find your way back. But now it feels like you have no resilience left…

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Karen Nimmo
Forge
Writer for

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz