This is a re-post of an article by  Melissa A. Fabello about personal burn-out, what is it, how it happens, how to avoid it and how to take care of oneself.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/02/burn-out/

Audre Lorde wrote in 1988, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”