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The Compassionate Witness

Write the burnout story in third person, then read it back as a friend would.

The concept

Story editing & self-compassion

Gottlieb's clinical work shows that chronic over-functioning is held in place by a story that says 'I'm the only one who can'. Until you can witness that story from the outside, you can't revise it.

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