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#53 Burnout: The Exhaustion Sleep Can't Fix with Guest Chelsy Tyler
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What if the exhaustion you're feeling goes far deeper than just being tired? In this episode of the Wholistic Productivity Podcast, host Chris LeBrun sits down with Chelsy Tyler — pastor, speaker, and burnout recovery advocate — for an honest and eye-opening conversation about burnout that most of us never get to have. Chelsy brings a unique perspective to this topic: having served in pastoral ministry, she spent years pouring into high school students, young adults, and volunteer leaders — all while quietly drowning beneath the surface. Her personal journey through whole-being exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and the long road to recovery led her to where she is now: helping others recognize burnout, name it, and begin to heal from it. In this episode, Chris and Chelsy explore what burnout actually feels like before you have language for it, why caregivers and people in mission-driven roles are especially vulnerable, how faith communities can unintentionally reinforce burnout, and what recovery actually looks like — not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If you've ever felt tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix, or wondered why meaningful work still leaves