Like many healthcare workers, I experienced a period of burnout during late 2020 and early 2021, and it took me several months to adjust and recover from it fully. I would say that the biggest change that helped to facilitate that recovery was an adjustment in my mindset. Particularly in a field like healthcare, where your work directly impacts the quality of life of your patients, it can be easy to feel like you’re not allowed to take time off. At the time, our facility was operating with a very short staff, which left me feeling like I had to “pick up the slack” and take on extra shifts and more hours than I could reasonably work without sacrificing my mental and physical health. Breaking free from this cycle meant first learning to prioritize my own health and wellness as at least equal to that of my patients and colleagues. This meant first figuring out what I needed in order to stay healthy and bring my best to the workplace on an everyday basis, then being willing to set and maintain the time boundaries I needed to ensure I was taking care of myself to the same level that I aim to take care of others. One of the shifts I made was to schedule dedicated “me time” time and dedicated “friends and family” time, with at least an hour of each prioritized each week in my schedule. I also made a point of working in time for physical exercise, which I’d been neglecting because of my busy work schedule, and to leave myself an hour to relax and unwind before bed every night. That said, these specific changes were the secondary effect of the bigger picture strategy, which is that mindset shift that allowed me to identify these were the things I was missing that had led me into burnout.