Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Prioritize Yourself! Stop the Burnout

12 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston argues that caregivers who show up dysregulated, exhausted, or emotionally unbalanced do more harm than good. Self-care isn't selfish; it's the only way to avoid burnout and stay effective for the people who depend on you.

Don't be afraid to take care of yourself instead of trying to show up for everybody else.
Because if, if you show up when you're dysregulated, you might as well not have shown up at all, you know? Because I know for me, if I'm that, it's, it's gonna do harm to somebody, you know, for me to be there.
Especially as somebody that takes care of others. And I think somewhere along the lines we lost the, the taking care of ourselves is always the first line of taking care of others.
Yeah. And I think it's, it's really important that we are giving ourselves the same grace that we give other people. Like, take the day off, do what you need to do, take care of yourself. If we can't afford our own selves that same grace, like we're doing ourselves a disservice. And it's, it's so necessary to be patient and kind to ourselves and our bodies. And you were asking about like resetting and how do we reset our day? But also recognizing that there may be moments where you just can't and you need to just kind of check out for the day and say, you know what, I'll try again tomorrow. And that's okay too.