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Glen Phillips

“Protect your body and mind the way you would protect your gear”: How to stop burning out before you stop the music

The psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France. The patients can take part in a music workshop. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images).

Most of us were taught how to dial in a good guitar tone long before anyone showed us how to survive the life around it. We learn how to fix cables, swap tubes, and restring in the dark. We spend hours obsessing over which overdrive is “more transparent.” But we spend almost no time on how to get through it all without wrecking our relationships, our bank accounts, or heads.

The gap between how seriously we take our role and how casually we treat our physical and mental health is where burnout lives.

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