🧠 Burnout 2.0: When Burnout Isn’t About Overwork, But About a Loss of Meaning

Burnout isn’t always about working too much.

Often, it’s about living against yourself for too long — stuck in survival mode, disconnected from your body, emotions, and sense of purpose.

After years of war, chronic stress, digital overload, and constant pressure to perform, burnout is taking a new form.

It’s no longer just emotional exhaustion — it’s an existential standstill where you can no longer find the “why.”

It can sound like this:

• “I don’t want anything, even when things are going well.”

• “I no longer feel myself in this process.”

• “The team is functioning, but on autopilot.”

• “We achieved the goal, but somehow lost ourselves along the way.”

What might be behind it:

• A lack of space to process and reflect on change

• Over-adaptation without inner integration

• Loss of identity within the professional role

• A frozen state — everything works, but nothing feels alive

What can help:

• Reconnecting with meaning, not just resetting goals

• Working through topics of loss, loyalty, and identity

• Creating space not only for “unloading,” but for deep reflection

• Fostering a culture of presence, not just performance — because energy returns when we’re truly in contact with ourselves

Burnout 2.0 isn’t a sign of weakness — it’s a signal that something essential is asking to be heard.