GROWTH & REDIRECTION: A journal

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Part 3: Women in Leadership: Putting Yourself First and Prioritizing Self Care in a Demanding Job

How do you prioritize yourself, your health, your emotional wellbeing, and your own needs, while leading a team or a big project? This is a resource for anyone in a tough leadership position, who cares about their people, and wants to help as much as they can. Find ideas for self-care and raising your energy levels in a realistic way during crunchtime at work.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Part 2: Women in Leadership: Healthy and Generous Leadership starts with your wellbeing

On navigating layoffs, crisis, and taking care of your team while making sure to prioritize your own needs. This is a message for anyone in a tough leadership position, who cares about their people, and wants to help as much as they can. If you’re burnt out and giving your all to serving your team while trying to get everything done, this is written for you.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Women in Leadership: Embracing Evolution & Perspective In Times of Change

On navigating layoffs, uncertainty with AI, leadership stress, restructuring, and other workplace crises.

This is a message for anyone in a tough leadership position. Anyone who cares about other people, and wants to help as much as they possibly can. Who is trying their best to hold everything together, but is on the verge of breaking down on the inside. If you’re navigating a lot of change at work, this is written for you.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

New Year, More Energy!

Why I’m focusing on MORE NOURISHMENT to achieve my 2024 physical health goals. Learn how to improve your health in a balanced way (without burning out!) and how to increase your energy levels in 2024 without diets, hours at the gym, strictness, or self-deprivation.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Supporting Energy in Summertime

For some of us, summer is a time to relax, enjoy the outdoors, slow down a bit, take vacations, hang out with friends and family. For others, it’s a really busy season, with tight deadlines, lots of extra work, personal projects, and social obligations. Whichever way your summer goes, it’s important to prioritize our energy. Find out how best to do that for all 4 energy types.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (II)

How to start recovering from the four types of burnout: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Why we should maintain healthy energy levels of all four types. How to learn to feel your different energies, when they’re low, and when you’re approaching burnout.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (I)

It’s all energy. But thinking of it as an all-encompassing, generic term is not helpful when we’re trying to troubleshoot our energy: make it more stable, figure out why it’s low, or make it stop crashing every so often. In order to properly diagnose and heal burnout, it’s important to be able to distinguish between the 4 types - and know what to do for each.

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