183: Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work (with Arianna Molloy)

Dr. Arianna Molloy shares hopeful and practical guidance as we seek to understand and live out our calling. Arianna defines key terms, unpacks professional research, and shares personal anecdotes to cast a vision for a healthy, reflective practice for flourishing in work and in relationship with the Caller.

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• “As believers, our primary calling is to love God and love others, and to do that well in everything that we do.”
• “[God] is a personal, intimate designer, and He has equipped each of us with skill sets and passions.”
• Work as a calling: meaningful, identified Caller, skill set and passion, and pro-social
• “Passion alone is fine, but it makes you a great fan; passion and skill set make you a great employee.”
• “It becomes unhealthy when we confuse our relationship with the Caller with the calling, when we become so consumed with the calling that we forget about the people that we’re impacting on the other side.”
• “An unhealthy kind of calling in the workplace is not work as an expression of who I am, but work as the definition of who I am.”
• “The virtue of humility enacted [...] keeps us on the healthy calling path.”
• Micah 6:8
• “Deep shame comes from the idea that work is a calling, and when you don’t want to do it anymore, it’s not the task that you don’t want to do anymore, it’s that relational connection that feels severed [...] It’s not ‘I don’t like what I’m doing anymore, it’s I don’t know who I am anymore.’”
• Communication when stressed: withdrawal, reduced awareness, physical tension
• “Burnout doesn’t go away on its own, so we have to stop romanticizing pushing through.”
• Saundra Dalton-Smith’s Seven Types of Rest
• “Sabbath is not meant to just be for a day; we’re meant to live a Sabbath lifestyle. Sabbathing is turning our hearts and minds to the Lord, and remembering that all of the time all of the resources that we have are His, and we are not God and He is enough.”
• “Because calling is a process, even jobs that don’t feel exciting at all can teach you something about yourself.”
• Make Your Job a Calling by Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy: task crafting, relational crafting, cognitive crafting
• “Calling is about relationship. Focus on and pursue the relationship, and the Lord will clarify your calling.”

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• Heather: Yuka app
• Arianna: Voice messaging with her husband

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