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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead
“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully.
Burnout. You, like most American women, have probably experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap. Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the all-too-familiar cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. They compassionately explain the obstacles and societal pressures we face—and how we can fight back.
You’ll learn
• what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle
• how to manage the “monitor” in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration
• how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies—and how to defend yourself against it
• why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering from and preventing burnout
With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in Burnout—and will be empowered to create positive change.
A BOOKRIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
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Jackie –
This book spoke directly to me. Recommended reading for women especially, at anytime in one’s life– not only when feeling tired and burntout.
Alejandra –
It helps me a lot to understand my self and my current mood. I can put my feeling in real context and accept my self with compassion and love. Thanks for writing this book.
Dawn –
I have this on Audible (they narrate it wonderfully) and in paperback. I am a therapist and use the workbook as well. I am pleased that it doesn’t just tell what burn out is, but gives directions on how to combat it.
R. Jones –
I got this book because I keep getting myself into situations where I am doing too much. This book helps me understand why, but it also gets me angry and it’s a little cheesy sometimes. Overall, it’s good, but it’s bit overhyped.
What I want is to stop caring and to feel secure enough to stop constantly trying to prove myself.
Instead of helping me reflect on my behaviors, this book blames the patriarchy. Yeah, that is part of the problem, but I can’t control that piece.
Linda t. –
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Ordered this book used, was a little worried about the condition it would be in, but it came 5 days early, and in excellent condition aside from a few scratches on the front. If you’ve been reluctant to shop used, be assured that the quality is checked before sale. I only started reading it today, but so far it’s very informational. Skimmed through it a bit and saw there were many diagrams, which helps my brain understand a little better rather than just words on a paper. So far it’s an excellent purchase
Skeeterdani –
I started reading this book after a period of sick leave from work due to stress. I found it really useful to re-calibrate and have practical ideas to help me in the future. I also really appreciated the way the authors rooted all
The advice in the realities of (white) patriarchal hegemony and capitalism.
C. S. –
This book was highly recommended by a friend who said it changed her relationship with stress forever. I heard the authors on Brene Brown’s podcast and it sounded amazing. But I’ve had this book for months and am struggling to get past the third chapter. Both authors are formidable experts in their fields and I loved Emily Nagoski’s book Come As Your Are… but this book is just trying too hard. I cannot handle the amount of sassy quips, personal stories, and random feminist anecdotes (I’m a feminist!) It goes beyond just being conversational or relatable in my opinion – it’s just plain hard to read. There is great information in here that is so valuable but it feels obscured by all these random jokes and cultural references – very disjointed and reads more like a series of Instagram posts than a book. I don’t need my self-help books to be this sarcastic.
Danielle Meyers –
Within the first 15 pages, 2 revelations smacked me so hard, I FELT SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!! If you gain absolutely nothing else from this book, you will at least be able to finally affirm that IT’S NOT JUST YOU!!!! If you’re a woman who struggles in a world run by men… this book is for you.
Beguiled By Books –
The word burnout crept up in my everyday use since 2019 – and then the pandemic hit. No travel. No casual shopping. No conferences. None of the usual ways to break up the days. Burnout, especially at work, snuck up on me. Much like my own burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, snuck up on me too.
“First coined as a technical term by Herbert Freudenberger in 1975, “burnout” was defined by three components:
1. emotional exhaustion—the fatigue that comes from caring too much, for too long;
2. depersonalization—the depletion of empathy, caring, and compassion;
3. decreased sense of accomplishment—an unconquerable sense of futility: feeling that nothing you do makes any difference.
Written with women in mind, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle talks about the big and little stressors we experience daily – from the patriarchy (ugh) to the “second shift” most women have after work at home (house chores, caregiving). Compared to what it’s like to be a woman, what’s expected of women creates burnout without even realizing it. The authors discuss the Bikini Industrial Complex and the microaggressions women regularly experience for not looking, acting, or speaking in a certain way.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle goes on to discuss how to complete the stress cycle. When we experience fight, flight, or freeze responses, our bodies react to those chemicals even though we are rarely in actual life-or-death experiences. The problems arise when we experience those reactions and don’t get the fulfillment of knowing we are no longer in a life-or-death situation.
Too many women, especially women of color, grow up with unconscious biases about how we should behave, which is only exacerbated by others around us with unconscious biases. Before you know it, we’re working ourselves too much, developing physical symptoms from a life of microaggressions and minor stressors, and we reach a breaking point. A part of this book encourages you to be aware of times in your life when you need to move on from whatever is causing you stress.
I appreciate a great deal about this book, but I loved how the authors didn’t promise your burnout will magically go away if you take luxurious baths every night or try and “lean in” at work more. The premise of Burnout empowers us to accept ourselves exactly as we are and know that we are enough.
Buy Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle because we all need to work on unconscious biases around women at home, work, and in the world.
FP –
Easy reading, evidence based and well presented, humorous even! Looking at burnout through a feminist lens. Lots of practical tips and strategies for preventing and recovering from burnout.
Three comments
1) little info on burnout as a clinical entity. What is the exact definition? What causes it in the professional context (different references have talked about high responsibility, but little control and flexibility, long hours, hostile work environment)? Can antidepressants help? How long does it last?
2) Would have been nice to see a chapter dedicated to motherhood, as I feel this is a definite contributor for many women. Working moms and SAHM can burn out.
3) The chapter on the bikini industrial complex. Yes, healthcare and society have huge issues with fat shaming that need to be resolved. However, obesity is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, and coronary artery disease. A body that loses weight easily without effort may have cancer, cirrhosis, malabsorption, etc (the differential is literally pages long), so it isn’t surprising that low body weight is associated with mortality. A body that gains weight easily is almost always healthy (some exceptions like Cushing’s, hypothyroidism, medications, etc exist), especially in our sedentary, food abundant modern developed world. However, staying at a high weight with a high percentage of visceral body fat is associated with the chronic health conditions listed above. In very severe cases when bariatric surgery is used, we see major improvement in diabetes (some patients no longer need any medication afterwards, liver disease improves, etc. I’m sure the authors know this, but the chapter doesn’t tell the full story, which hurts its credibility imo.
Florence R Batten –
Very good book! Great ideas and methods to help recognize and improve stress levels!
Miss Kitty –
Good book, enjoyed reading
Laura –
Debería haber leído las reseñas antes de comprarlo. Este libro no es maravilloso, ni va a cambiarte la vida, por mucho que insistan en ponerlo en las reseñas de la portada y en repetirlo a lo largo del libro. “Le dije a X que hiciera esto y me dijo que le cambió la vida”, y solo porque está escrito este testimonio tengo que creérmelo. Y los consejos…..empieza hablando de verte atrapado en un atasco y continúa diciendo que todas las situaciones difíciles son provechosas, entonces pasa a ejemplos cómo “hacer ejercicio es dificil pero te da músculos”, nunca jamás te explican cómo volver la situación del atasco provechosa. Más tarde, hablando del “Monitor” básicamente te dice que bajes tus expectativas, si algo no te va bien, baja tus expectativas. ¿en serio? Claro obviamente si bajo mis expectativas para que lo que tengo sea suficiente, pues tendré cero problemas. Es tan sencillo como ir conformándose por la vida… en fin. Y para rematarla intenta demostrarte que esto es eficaz, simplemente diciendo que una cantante que trabajaba con la autora le dijo “Eso del Monitor, eso de controlar las expectativas, ha cambiado mi vida, por completo!”
Y solo llevo 39 páginas…
Había que desconfiar de un libro que tiene las portadas llenas de comentarios de gente que de lo exagerados que son me queda claro que son puro marketing, como que una tal Peggy Orenstein se echó a llorar de agradecimiento al leer el libro… Yo voy a llorar pero de lo poco útil que me resulta…
Decepcionada 🙁