@borntoserve07: Sometimes burnout doesn’t start with the workload. Sometimes it starts with the bills. You realize the money that once stretched far enough doesn't stretch anymore. Food costs more. Housing costs more. Life costs more. But your income may not have moved with it. So what do some of us do? We pick up another shift. Stay a little longer. Cover another call-out. Give up another day off. We’re trying to solve the financial weight. But somewhere along the way, the thing we picked up to help us survive becomes another weight of its own. Now the extra hours are costing us rest, time, energy and peace. And that is what I mean by: Two weights. One back. One weight says, “I need more money to keep up.” The other says, “I’m exhausted from doing more to keep up.” You picked up the second weight trying to lighten the first. But now you're carrying both. After 17 years in caregiving, I don't share this from a textbook. I share it because I have lived it. Caregivers, have you ever picked up extra work because you needed the money—only to realize the extra work was wearing you down?💜 #HealingForCaregivers #FollowMeAcrossTheBridge

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