Survival Mode: When Does It Help Us & When Does It Work Against Us?

‘Tis the season for functioning in survival mode.

With busy schedules, to-do lists, holiday plans, and the usual end-of-year stuff, sometimes all we can muster is just “good enough”.

We can’t always be in peak achievement mode, and that’s okay.

But when survival mode becomes less a temporary phase, and more a chronic state of being, there’s a problem.

How can we tell if survival mode is becoming more maladaptive and toxic?

What can we do when we’re stuck in survival mode?

In this episode, I share what a long-term state of survival tells us and what we can do about it.

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

• The good thing about survival mode
  Is working in survival mode ever acceptable?
  
  
• Chronic survival mode vs. hibernation
  Sometimes we slow down to prepare for a big leap forward, but how do we make sure that’s what’s happening?
  
  
• The giant caveat of functioning in survival mode
  How can we tell if our survival mode is a symptom of something deeper and far more serious?