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    Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back: Burnout to Bliss
    Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back: Burnout to Bliss
    Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back: Burnout to Bliss
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    Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back: Burnout to Bliss

    By Pam Young

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    "Somehow, in the process of regaining my confidence and self-respect with my little bicycle project, I also got off the fence about suicide."

    Cycling in the City is a story about overcoming limitations – one small step at a time. It’s also about the process of making life changes – like why resolutions don’t stick. It shows how you can plan for success instead of failure – even how to make tough changes like quitting smoking, alcohol or drugs. And, it includes the underlying SECRET for success!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPam Young
    Release dateOct 15, 2017
    ISBN9781540190215
    Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back: Burnout to Bliss
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    Pam Young

    Pam Young played many roles: teacher, masseuse, Alchemical Hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, empowerment workshop leader, and yoga teacher. Now she writes with the same intentions. You can follow her here: Twitter @DrPamYoung Facebook      https://www.facebook.com/drpamyoung

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      Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back - Pam Young

      For Catherine

      Acknowledgements

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      From my current spiritual perspective, I see life as a series of stories representing my soul’s intentions to grow. From that view, this book was made possible by all those who participated in my story of recovery from severe burnout in 1989-1990.   How does one acknowledge everyone who contributed to such a story that happened so long ago? May I simply offer thanks to every single one of you who played a part in that important story of my life at that time? I am especially thankful for My Nemesis, who launched me onto a different path to become a better version of myself. I believe she will laugh out loud when she reads this from the other side. My Nemesis was also my best friend at that time; she made her transition many years ago.

      Thank you, Cheryl Lynn Ferrari, for sharing your heart and giving me the pep talks I so desperately needed but didn’t know how to ask for. I am especially grateful for the email you sent that enabled me to blast through my resistance and just finish the hardest book of the series to write, BURNOUT – How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith. Without that book, there would be no Burnout to Bliss series! It is the launch-pad!

      Thanks to Robert Armstrong, editor. Without your perspective, the story would have been incomplete. You can reach Robert at robarm38@yahoo.com.

      Thanks to Rachel Fog for proof-reading and catching the typos Robert and I missed! Contact Rachel here: mailto:wahmforhire@yahoo.com.

      Thanks to Nathaniel Dasco for the clever book cover. You can reach him at Nathan@BookCoverMall.com

      And thanks to Glenn Sarco, who did the formats for both eBook and print. You can reach Glenn at https://www.fiverr.com/sarco2000.

      Thanks to all my friends on the SPS Mastermind Community for sharing your experience; in doing so, you helped to improve mine. 

      Thanks, Chandler Bolt, for writing Book Launch, the reason I joined SPS Community: to see what else I could learn from you!

      I feel so grateful to each of you and know that I am blessed to have such a team!

      Introduction

      ––––––––

      Because one reason for publishing this series is to help educate people about workaholic behavior and burnout, I am including this excerpt from the introduction that appeared in Book 1, BURNOUT – How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith. 

      Burnout and nervous breakdowns are not uncommon, especially for workaholics or driven people. At least that’s what the psychologists told me when I experienced mine in 1988. Symptoms of burnout include loss of energy, interest, or participation. In extreme cases, burnout may include deep depression characterized by feelings of unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that come when one loses one’s sense of purpose or ideals.

      Self-medication – alcohol, drugs, sex – seldom provides the relief sought. Generally, it only magnifies the suffering.

      Burnout is an egalitarian syndrome, affecting workers in all walks of life. We might hear more about healthcare burnout, especially with nurses and physicians, but anyone in any kind of work can experience it. Some organizations are taking steps to educate workers and leaders about recognizing the symptoms of burnout and providing support before their valued employees succumb to the stress.

      Burnout typically results when workers feel unappreciated for all the long hours and extra work they do, a feeling that no one knows or cares how they feel. But programs to educate management take money. Businesses, especially small ones, say they just don’t have it.

      Ironically, employers who don’t spend the money to learn how to detect and treat employee burnout may lose out financially by killing their golden geese through overload and lack of appreciation. Simply listening might have been the one thing that made the difference between that employee continuing on the job or ditching it. 

      There is also a spiritual aspect to burnout – the dark night of the soul. For people afflicted with this syndrome, life may lose all meaning, especially if the individual either has no meaningful spiritual foundation or is a seeker of spiritual truth and expression, longing to know God personally. They might try to mitigate their unending agony with alcohol, drugs or sex. They may even experience psychotic episodes, called night visions, even though the visions can happen at any time of the day or night.

      Looking back almost 30 years through a wiser lens to write this story about my experience with burnout, I now understand quite differently what happened to me.

      Quiet introspection, examining my story, has proven to me that there are no coincidences – just about every aspect of our lives is orchestrated and has meaning, whether or not we know it, whether or not we understand it.

      Organization of the Series

      My journey from Burnout to Bliss is told over a series of stories, beginning with BURNOUT – How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith. It continues with break-away jaunts that not only changed my life, but undoubtedly saved it.

      Book 1, BURNOUT – How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith, illustrates how it’s never just one thing when our life falls apart and we break down, nor is it ever about any one individual or opponent. It relates some of the psychotic episodes I experienced and the clumsy, destructive steps I took to survive the worst year of my life. Remarkably, real healing began when I camped with a family of Indian shamans in Mexico, where I overcame my fear and a desert lizard restored my faith.

      Book 2, CYCLING in the CITY, relates the first actual break-away from my job, leaving with no plans and one paycheck to start my journey of recovery in California, where I got my confidence and self-esteem back by riding a bicycle! It

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