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Carrie Severson is a caregiver, burnout, author, and public speaker. She first experienced burnout in 2012 when she created and ran a nonprofit for girls that grew nationally. She wrote about her experience with burnout in her first memoir, Unapologetically Enough, which led to burnout recovery keynotes for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and healthcare networks nationwide.
She is also the author of The Enoughness Method, and Burnout Recovery Affirmation Cards, and is the host of the podcast, I Saved You. Now, Do the Dishes. She is working on a book with the same title about her experience caregiving for her husband.
She experienced caregiver burnout in 2024 when she stepped out of her career to care for her husband, who was struggling with head-and-neck cancer. Now that she’s got her feet back underneath her, she’s sharing her insights from caregiving and how burnout impacts caregivers.
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Carrie Severson, a renowned burnout recovery author and family caregiver, has shared this signature keynote to Fortune 500 companies, private medium and large companies, as well as in front of audiences at conferences around the United States. She uses her experience with both burnout and family caregiving in this authentic, candid, heartfelt keynote.
Life Goes On After Burnout is a fun, lively, and sometimes even humorous look at burnout and how to move on after it happens.
Carrie's approach to burnout recovery is refreshingly practical. She believes it can happen in the small pockets of time we find in our busy schedules-at red lights, in between meetings, or in the pick-up and drop-off lane.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain access to research-driven, easy-to-implement tips that will help retrain the nervous system.
- Define and recognize symptoms of burnout when they first start happening.
- Create new boundaries in their personal and professional lives to help them stay out of burnout in the future.
Are you able to answer yes to these three questions:
- Have you lost your passion for your career?
- Are you willing to negotiate your daily expectations?
- Are you open to finding more peace in life?
Carrie Severson shares her experience of recovering from burnout and finding a healthier way of living in this signature keynote that she’s delivered time and time again to audiences across various industries.
Burnout impacts our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and steals our joy, happiness, sense of worth, and peace.
Through her own experiences, Carrie shows how redefining thoughts about success, and self-love can lead to a more fulfilling and joyful existence.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain access to research-driven, easy-to-implement tips that will help retrain the nervous system.
- Define and recognize symptoms of burnout when they first start happening.
- Create new boundaries in their personal and professional lives to help stay out of burnout in the future.
Burnout happens to the best of us. Saving Lives & Doing Dishes is an authentic, candid, heartfelt keynote that illuminates what the Sandwich Generation is experiencing in America and teaches how to handle burnout practically.
As a well-researched author on burnout, Carrie Severson knew how to overcome it when she became her husband's full-time caregiver and medical advocate. However, gracefully doing so was a different matter.
Carrie's approach to burnout recovery is refreshingly straightforward. She believes it can happen in the small pockets of time we find in our busy schedules—at red lights, in the school pick-up and drop-off lane, or in the few minutes of solitude before someone else requires something. This real-life approach ensures that recovery is possible even with a hectic schedule.
Learning Objectives:
- Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate three research-driven tips to retrain their nervous system that will support burnout recovery.
- Upon completion, participants can identify habits and behaviors that strengthen long-term resilience.
- Upon completion, participants will know a cognitive reframing technique to help reduce stress and support emotional well-being.
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