https://www.unconventionalfolks.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://www.unconventionalfolks.com/blog/the-spiritual-existential-and-collective-dimensions-of-burnout monthly 0.5 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/598b1fac-1d44-481c-bc34-fb387fd7c14c/existential+therapy+near+me+Los+Angeles.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - But First, A Note on Approach A colleague gave us a pérsimo (persimmon). She warned me: this one you have to wait until it’s really ripe then you’re ready to eat. My mom thought it was ready, bit into it, grimaced, and immediately had to rinse her mouth. The fruit wasn’t ready to be consumed. I've been thinking about this as I write for people burned out on being told to consume the next wellness trend, the next solution, the next optimization. For those tired of toxic positivity, “cruel optimism,” one-size-fits-all advice, and being sold fantasies that ask people to individually solve our way out of collective crisis. For those who've been oversold and overpromised by many industries that profit from our exhaustion. Moving forward I’d like what I share to be like this fruit my friend gave me. I’ve tried to rush things and they just haven’t been ready. I’m finding on this site I’d like to be more slow with what I put out into the world. There are probably many reasons for this. I’m welcoming them all. I want to take time. I feel more aligned even if things are imperfect when I take the time I need even if that doesn’t go with the inhumanly-super-fast-paced world I find myself swimming in. In essence, I might go fast one season if called to be, slow another, and a different speed another. This feels relevant to a series on burnout. Essentially, I’m trying to find out and experiment with what’s sustainable for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/ceaafdc4-21f1-4f4e-bc03-a11896effde9/therapist+for+burnout.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/e23b4d53-1ebd-4f08-a231-d334cda99695/therapy+for+existential+dread.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - So part of our work together is discerning: What’s internally driven? What’s externally imposed? And either way, how do you want to respond with intention? Important caveat: What I’m describing here reflects my ever-growing style and is aimed for people who tend to seek me out: people who are socially and politically conscientious, people who tend to be introspective, sensitive, contemplative creatives, existentially and spiritually curious, neurodivergent, deep-thinking unconventional folks. They’re usually going through some sort of life transition where they’re asking deeper questions around what really matters in life. Pretty much complex humans who care and want to understand themselves and others deeply. People asking themselves what does it truly mean to live and how can I stay present for it all. There are billions of people with different needs, and what works for one person may not work for another. Please take what resonates and leave the rest. Lastly, you’ll also notice an overlap between what I discuss around burnout and other experiences like trauma, depression, grief, existential dread, neurodiversity, and more. That’s because human experience is WAY more complex, messy, and interconnected than we tend to give credit. Sometimes the roots are different even when the branches look similar. I’ll do my best to name these nuances, while also acknowledging that words don’t always do our lived experiences justice. If nothing resonates, you might have followed the wrong weird rabbit down a wild hole ️ and I’m now redirecting you back on your path. With that said, let’s begin… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/e3fc9b90-6810-43be-aacb-261bf227cc9b/therapy+for+burnout+Los+Angeles.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/6dde3b06-e6c6-4a1a-8401-bddb96195488/therapy+for+gifted+adults.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/a4c1fed9-2cd6-4bed-a7a6-8bca87355b54/gifted+adults+therapy.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - Scientists have long understood this: breakthrough insights come not solely during focused analysis but may come during a walk, rest, sleep, playing an instrument, running or essentially engaging with something entirely different. The mind needs space to make connections that conscious effort alone cannot create . I witness this often in EMDR sessions. Sometimes we use approaches that introduce new information or perspective when someone is stuck in processing experiences. It's like opening a different channel or pathway in the nervous system. Suddenly, insights may surface that weren't accessible moments before. Illumination. Discovery. Acceptance. Creativity. Curiosity. The process itself can reveal what's needed in this moment without an external source telling you what you need. The wisdom emerges from within you. This is the invitation: to dance with instinct and intuition alongside analytics. To experiment and play rather than only following a rigid protocol. In the very near future, you’ll see me modeling this here. Wish me luck. But if you've tried the standard advice and it doesn't work, that doesn't mean something's wrong with you. It might mean it's time to try something new, to practice, to explore what feels more aligned for your experiences, your neurotype, nervous system, your story, your particular life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/d59a215c-39bc-4ca0-9d9f-f09c51f9aabf/existential+therapy+near+me+Pasadena.jpg Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - What If Your Burnout Is Information? What if your burnout, painful as it is, is also information about what's unsustainable? Not just for you personally, but for all of us collectively? What if your sensitivity isn't a weakness but an early warning system, picking up on conditions that will eventually affect everyone if left unaddressed? What if the questions that keep you awake are the questions we all need to be asking about how we're living, what we're valuing, what we're willing to accept as "normal"? Your exhaustion might be your soul's refusal to participate in systems of extraction and exploitation. Including the exploitation and extraction of our own body, energy, and care. There's something deeply spiritual, in the sense of honoring what's sacred, about recognizing that you cannot and should not try to carry everything. About acknowledging that you're finite, mortal, limited. And that these limits aren't failures: they're part of what makes you human. The near enemy of caring deeply might be martyrdom: destroying yourself in service of others, believing your worth is measured by how much you can endure. But what if sacred work looks less like endless sacrifice and more like tending to your whole self so you can offer what's genuinely yours to give? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/9bceeb2c-d065-4e57-a0b5-c26a26f13405/Sandy+Gordon+LMFT-+EMDR+therapist.png Blog - Beyond Personal Exhaustion: exploring the Spiritual, Existential, and Collective Dimensions of Burnout - about the therapist Sandy Gordon, LMFT is a depth-oriented psychotherapist in Pasadena, California, working with artists and creatives navigating burnout, life transitions, relational trauma, childhood wounds, and disconnection despite external success. When you're overwhelmed or feeling trapped by emotions you don't know how to work with, Sandy brings skills, creativity, and deep attunement to help you slow down enough to make contact with what actually matters. She believes therapy is not about giving you answers or fixing you. Instead her work creates conditions where you can access what's already within you but feels unreachable: your own wisdom, your clarity, your agency. Sandy's approach draws from EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy, but her practice is grounded in something older: the understanding that real healing happens in relationship, over time, with patience and presence. As a Black queer therapist of Ghanaian and Mexican heritage, she holds the human need to be witnessed, held, and seen in our fullness. This isn't about overpromising transformation or selling you quick fixes. It's about offering skilled presence for profound work: integrating experiences, reconnecting with yourself, and developing capacity to hold what life brings. Some sessions you'll leave with clear next steps. Other times, you may leave feeling more grounded, more connected, more able to sit with complexity. And for the right people, those ready for depth, willing to feel, and seeking more than surface-level bandaids, it can be genuinely life-changing. If you’re feeling called this season to engage in this kind of work, please don’t hesitate to reach out. https://www.unconventionalfolks.com/blog/meeting-fear-of-change-this-fall monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/a4c87af6-6476-4ea0-a814-315cdfb63ae0/fear+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so's you're sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you're well. — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/ba28b50a-1400-4792-9ee3-f3db5ddb198a/terrified+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - It might’ve been that exact evening. All I knew was I felt called to be in Kazu Haga's next workshop Fierce Vulnerability: Healing, Spirit, and Action in Times of Collapse, in-person, in Oakland. I wonder if there was learned helplessness, especially from these last couple of years. It's not possible, I told myself. I romanticized a past that wasn't always so romantic. So that evening I booked a flight and a hotel with points I didn't realize I had, probably sitting there for years. This is what learned helplessness can look like. When we've experienced enough situations where our efforts didn't matter, where doors stayed closed no matter how hard we knocked, where change felt impossible, we stopped trying. We tell ourselves stories: It's not realistic. I can't afford it. It won't work out anyway. These aren't lazy thoughts. They're survival responses from a nervous system that learned, often correctly, that hoping hurt too much. That imagining, being creative, dreaming, trying and failing were more painful than not trying at all. But here's what my mother understood that I had forgotten: learned helplessness isn't permanent truth. It's a pattern. And patterns can change. I share this because we throw the word healing out a lot these days. I have to ask what does it mean to you? Not what a spiritual-artist-social justice-wellness-activist-therapist-influencer told you. What. Does. It. Mean. For…You? I ask that because healing and change require much from us. Require effort from us. Require courage from us. Require discomfort from us. How can we not be uncomfortable? We're in our stretch zone! Shit is scary! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/33144995-e19a-4b33-8292-5961f90dbd2c/scared+to+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/4c0037be-6cba-433e-81c4-761177f0ac7a/reasons+for+fear+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Change Can Feel So Hard Predictability and familiarity can make us feel safe. This is why you might find yourself staying in patterns that no longer serve you. It's not weakness. It's your brain trying to protect you from perceived threat that comes with change. The familiar, even when painful, can feel safer than the uncertain. I'm in my lifelong journey of healing, just a different chapter, I’m in the process of reclaiming my attention. Reading helps motivate me and so far I've finished Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, and The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. I'm just getting started as I'm mainly curious and trying to change some of my behaviors and relationship to technology while still keeping its benefits, such as the opportunity to connect with you in internet land. I know this is all imperfect. So, I look forward to sharing about this journey in my field notes. But for now, I brought this up because this chapter on reclaiming my attention, as I struggle with some obsessions and compulsions of my own, has been painful, extremely uncomfortable, and unearthed a lot around feelings associated with loneliness, pain, boredom, misplaced curiosity, anxiety, hypervigilance, and other experiences of the human existence. So, yea…you’re not alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/320a01a6-ab31-49f0-a9f2-38d53a2b150a/overcome+fear+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - And the past doesn't have to dictate the present. My mother's question, "Are you fighting for it?" wasn't dismissive of my grief. It was a reminder that I had more agency than I was claiming. That my powerlessness wasn't a permanent condition but a temporary forgetting. And here's something else I've learned, particularly working with first-generation clients who carry the weight of migration stories, displacement, and survival: we also inherit agency, fight, and heart. Not just trauma. Not just wounds. But strength, creativity, tenacity, dreams. The same lineages that carry pain also carry profound gifts that help us see through the caves and tunnels of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/2ba49b94-1fa4-4ae7-9510-5decb7a72fb9/im+scared+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Alice Walker captures the tumultuous journey change can bring in the following passage from Living by the Word: In fact some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled upon a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before…often the feeling is anything but pleasant. So yes, it makes sense that there’s fear. Here's what's important to understand: just like I mentioned in part 1 of my burnout series, these responses aren't personal failures. They're intelligent attempts by our system to manage overwhelm. The question isn't whether you're "strong enough" to handle change. It's whether you have the support and tools to move through it in a way that feels sustainable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/cad800d5-6632-410d-aa5b-27d69a763c0e/change+and+fear.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/c2d66d58-e865-4469-844e-147d138588fd/how+to+overcome+fear+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - I work with many clients who carry the weight of living in bodies, identities, and lineages this world has tried to diminish and/or eliminate: first-generation immigrants and first-generation Americans, Black and Indigenous communities, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latine, multiracial folks, queer and trans people, neurodivergent kin, those whose ancestors navigated impossible circumstances and survived whether through stories, presence, art, resistance, language, creativity, culture, food, joy, pain, laughter…they survived through you. Because you are here reading this. So yes, we absolutely acknowledge intergenerational trauma and systemic violence and harm. And we also honor intergenerational gifts. The immense strength that allowed your mother and father to cross borders, your uncle to protect his queerness. The creativity that helped your parents build something from nothing. The tenacity that runs through your bloodline. The dreams that were passed down even when circumstances tried to crush them. Throughout our work together, I'm listening for your values, your beliefs, your strengths, even when you don't name them directly. I check in. I reflect back what I'm hearing. I remind you of what you might’ve forgotten about yourself. Because sometimes we need someone to bear witness to our power, our aliveness, our brilliance before we can see it ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/25bf53a7-deab-40d2-8d59-6862dd510830/why+do+i+fear+change+so+much.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - We don't have to fear the dark, which we might equate to change. We can see it as an opportunity. We can learn how to see and move through darkness as those who came before us did. Many of our ancestors navigated uncertainty. They survived what felt unsurvivable. They adapted when adaptation seemed impossible. That capacity lives in you, too. This work is experiential, not just intellectual. It's about fundamentally shifting your relationship with uncertainty, so that change feels less like a threat and more like an invitation to become more fully yourself. It's about discovering that you're not starting from scratch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/5dcf7187-6257-4cba-b677-61ebe16b463d/overcoming+fear+of+change.jpg Blog - Meeting Fear of Change This Fall - Well dear reader, we’ve landed. Ready to explore how therapy can support you through this transition? I usually say I work with artists, creative professionals, deep thinkers, and emotionally sensitive people who want to discover who they are, with the fear, with the uncertainty, with all of it, and learn how to live in their own way. What I mean by that is anyone who has a humble devotion to what matters, a heart that feels everything and feels deeply, people who find meaning in craft and beauty, and a courage that lives in tenderness. If that’s you and you're curious about working together, schedule a consultation and let's talk about what becomes possible when you move from resisting change to meeting change...with presence. Please take care. :) https://www.unconventionalfolks.com/blog/signs-of-burnout monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/85c5e3ca-2782-4bb4-9744-5b648dd0ff93/therapy+for+burnout+Los+Angeles.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/98d2f5ea-06be-4efd-af41-70f7c2a652e6/signs+of+burnout.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/08f8aa2d-9202-4e2b-87c1-d0b9d0943a0c/therapy+for+burnout+Pasadena.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/1edb6b65-0062-4fc3-98d4-4c4b2bdd5884/therapist+for+burnout.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/1023e7b5-8cfa-4f3f-a362-a28a6a13dbb6/therapist+for+burnout+Los+Angeles.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - How You Might Be Adapting (Or Trying To) Often, the clearest signs of what's happening inside show up in how we move through the world. You might notice yourself withdrawing from relationships and social connection, canceling plans, letting messages go unanswered, choosing isolation even when some part of you knows it's not what you need. When you’re with others, your body might be present but your mind is elsewhere, unable to fully land in the conversation happening in front of you. Tasks that used to feel manageable now trigger procrastination…not because you don't care, but because you can't seem to access the energy required to begin. Some of us turn to numbing behaviors more frequently: substances, scrolling through our phones for hours, anything that offers relief from the constant overwhelm. (And if this is you: I get it. The impulse to find relief makes complete sense.) Saying yes to new commitments feels impossible when you're already drowning. Your emotions might be flooding or frozen. You might cry unexpectedly over “small things,” or want to cry but find yourself unable to access tears at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/a98af1d1-b62c-4302-b507-c6dc8e49a0db/therapist+for+burnout+Pasadena.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - For Those of Us Who Process Deeply I’d like to name something that can go unspoken in conversations about burnout, something I've observed both in my practice and in my own lived experience: some of us process the world differently. Not deficiently…differently. Research in neurodiversity studies and sensory processing helps us understand why: certain nervous systems process information more deeply, notice subtleties others might miss, respond more intensely to what's happening around us. When collective stress increases, as it has dramatically in recent years, the gap between what the world expects us to provide and what we can sustainably offer widens exponentially. If this describes your experience, again please know: your nervous system isn't wrong or flawed. The world wasn't designed with nervous systems like ours in mind, but that doesn't make us deficient or inferior. It makes the design inadequate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/6e62f190-cf49-4024-90c2-2187cd254998/burnout+symptoms.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/1f12dbfd-c137-41d6-88af-ec3956ea21a3/caregiver+burnout.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - What Recognition Makes Possible That was probably a lot. What do I do with this, Sandy? Well, this first post in our series focuses entirely on seeing and naming what's happening because as I mentioned, it's hard to heal something we haven't acknowledged or named first. If you've recognized yourself in these descriptions, if you've been pushing through symptoms and telling yourself "everyone's tired," if you've been minimizing your experience because "others have it worse," I would like to offer you this: What you're experiencing is real. It makes sense. And it deserves attention and presence. Your exhaustion isn't a character flaw. Your overwhelm isn't weakness. Your body's signals aren't inconveniences to override. They're information about what's sustainable and what isn't. Your inability to "just power through" isn't lack of willpower. It's maybe your body's wisdom trying to reach you with increasingly urgent messages. Recognizing burnout as a result of all we're carrying and navigating in truly unprecedented times, coming together to really see this, naming this, allowing this pain and exhaustion to be real…this might be the first step toward recovery. Not because recognition fixes anything, but because it creates the possibility of responding in more aligned, expansive ways that include compassion and curiosity rather than criticism and force. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/10ee915d-fccc-40fd-975a-abe239ca25c2/burnout+recovery.jpg Blog - Recognizing Burnout - In Part 2 of this series, we'll explore the dimensions of burnout that conventional approaches often miss: the spiritual, existential, and collective aspects that make this more than just personal exhaustion. We'll examine why depth-oriented approaches don't rush to solutions, and what ancient wisdom traditions understood about bearing witness to suffering. Because understanding that your burnout has roots deeper than poor time management, deeper even than the specific circumstances of your life right now, changes everything about how we approach recovery. If this post resonated, I invite you to notice: What did your body respond to? Where did you feel recognition (or not)? These sensations are information. To those of you who feel everything, who notice what others miss, who carry the weight of caring in times like these: your exhaustion isn't evidence of weakness. It's evidence of your profound attunement to what's happening around you. And learning to listen to what your body has been trying to tell you? That's where genuine recovery begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e4cdc2232fd1541ae08f73/6bd229c0-e196-40b5-9de5-29ba6a4e2907/Sandy+Gordon+LMFT-+therapist+for+burnout.png Blog - Recognizing Burnout - About the therapist Sandy Gordon, LMFT is a depth-oriented psychotherapist in Pasadena, California, working with artists, creatives, and established professionals seeking greater alignment, connection, and authenticity. Her practice is designed for intellectually curious individuals who are ready to feel, not just think their way through. These are people navigating relationship patterns rooted in childhood trauma, burnout that's forcing deeper questions, or disconnection despite external success. They're ready for therapy that integrates rather than just copes: work that transforms how they show up in their relationships and their lives. Sandy's approach draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy, EMDR, somatic work, and parts work modalities, but her practice is grounded in something older: the understanding that real healing happens in relationship, over time, with patience and presence. As a Black queer therapist of Ghanaian and Mexican heritage, she holds the human need to be witnessed, held, and seen in our fullness. She creates space for clients to slow down, feel deeply, and explore the complexity of their inner worlds without needing easy answers. 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