Helping professionals recover from burnout and helping organizations reduce workplace burnout through sustainable performance strategies that support long-term success.

With over 20 years specializing in stress, trauma, burnout recovery, and behavioral health leadership, Deidre Gestrin helps professionals and organizations create sustainable performance without sacrificing health, purpose, and people.
Deidre is also the author of:
From Burnout to Balance: Unlock Your 7 Dimensions of Wellness to Create a Life of Abundance
Healthcare professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and high-achievers experiencing burnout, chronic stress, compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion, loss of purpose, and work-life imbalance.
Healthcare and behavioral health organizations struggling with employee burnout, turnover, disengagement, unstable workforce performance, leadership strain, and rising operational costs.
High Pressure teams seeking healthier workplace culture, stronger communication, sustainable performance systems, leadership resilience, and workforce stability.

Through the The Sustainable Performance System™, professionals learn how to:
restore energy without stepping away from their career
regulate chronic stress and overwhelm
reconnect with purpose and clarity
create success without sacrificing their health or family
Burnout inside organizations leads to higher turnover, disengaged employees, leadership fatigue, increased insurance costs, and operational instability.

strengthen leadership systems
improve team cohesion & reduce workforce burnout
stabilize operational performance
build healthier workplace culture

"Deidre was able to help me get my clinical spark back!"

"I feel like I’m at a 90% success rate now."

"Deidre helped me get to the point where I am today."
Whether you're a professional trying to recover from burnout or an organization working to stabilize workforce performance, sustainable success is possible.
The Sustainable Performance System™
(Burnout Recovery for Professionals)
The Sustainable Workforce System™
(Organizational Consulting)

Reward Accomplishments if you Break your Habits
Stop Your AddictionsNov 29, 2023

Life becomes more worth living when you know that for every good thing that you did, a reward is bound to come your way. By this time, you already know that stopping your addictions is possible only if you will really put your heart and mind to it. The last but definitely not the least tool for you to completely free yourself from your bad habits is learning to reward yourself for every accomplishment that you make.
Through meaningful rewards, you can be more motivated to do better the next day and you will strive even harder to make sure that you will get another great reward in the future. With this kind of inspiration and motivation, you will have the drive to become better and better every day as you finish your journey to complete recovery from your addiction.
Every Accomplishment Deserves a Good Reward
Reward systems are being used in many situations today. At home, in schools and even in workplaces, a reward system is considered as a helpful tool for people to do better. This serves as a motivation for the children to do their chores at home. Students learn to embrace their lessons better and complete their homework because they know that they will be rewarded for everything that they do.
Employees feel more valued and appreciated when their employees reward them for their achievements. Reward systems can certainly do wonders when it comes to inspiring people to strive better and even in your recovery from addiction, rewarding yourself for every accomplishment that you make can inspire you to move forward and finish what you have started.
Maybe you were able to say no to your friends’ invitation of going to the bar after work. Maybe the sight of marijuana no longer made you feel any cravings to take a toke. Maybe you were able to stop yourself from watching the porn video that popped up during your search.
These things might seem like a simple accomplishment for others but for those who are addicted to alcohol, marijuana and pornography, these simple actions are a giant leap on their way to recovery and these things definitely deserve some reward.
The rewards will be all up to. You can either set it for yourself or you can ask your family and friends to give you something for every accomplishment that you make. The main point here is that you will get something good out of being able to resist the lure of your addictions.
At the end of the day, it is not really the reward that matters. What matters is that even if there is no reward, it will now be easier for you to say No to your addictions. This is because you have already accepted it in your heart and mind that your bad habits will never do you any good and letting them go is the only way for you to be able to live the kind of life that you want, the life that you deserve.
Hopefully, this article has helped you in learning how to stop your addictions. Use the tools that you discovered to finally break free from all your bad habits.



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