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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This book offers a comprehensive guide for women to understand and manage burnout, providing practical strategies and insights backed by science. It addresses societal pressures and offers tools for emotional management and stress reduction.
"It’s an easy read but chock full of science to back everything up - they make it enjoyable to read." — C P.
"Great read with actionable ideas as to how to improve your relationship to stress." — Taliah
"this was a super light and useful read, i would 100% recommend this book for anyone struggling with burnout:/" — Maeve
Reviews
My soul was ignited after reading
"This book was perfect to read while struggling with burnout"
— Britt (5/5)
A must have
"I loved, loved, loved this book! It was extremely helpful. I am so glad this book exists. I strongly recommend it if you feel like stress is too much or are burning out."
— Jessica (5/5)
This market seems a bit over saturated right now.
"Well written and the personal story perspective is compelling."
— Katharina (4/5)
5/5!!
"Love this book ! Really helps us out to understand better"
— Tamj (5/5)
The title tells you exactly what you’re reading about.
"I learned so much from this book. So glad it was chosen for book club!"
— Katheryn (5/5)
title really stood out to me
"a bit slow to get into but good book and helpful !"
— Karla O. (4/5)
Not just the concepts. .
"Great read with actionable ideas as to how to improve your relationship to stress. Will read it again for sure."
— Taliah (5/5)
Game changing
"I knew the term burnout and knew the bare minimum of what it was, but I did not understand how to close the stress cycles that were open from school, work, family, friends. And a friend suggested this book after venting about how I just felt so tired and empty and it started clicking as I went through the book what I was feeling, how I was feeling and how to deal with these feelings."
— Emmy (5/5)
A great book for anyone in a high stress environment
"Lots of useful tips for realistic self care and preventing burnout in high stress circumstances"
— Anon (5/5)
Easy Read
"An easy to read book with some good themes and actions to take from it. I enjoyed the book overall, but found it brushed over some of the tougher stuff. It felt like looking at stress from 1000ft up, rather than getting deep on the topic. Overall, a good, quick read that I still found good insights from."
— Kristen (3/5)
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Published date: Jan 07, 2020
Language: English
No. of Pages: 304
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781984818324
Dimensions:
5.14" W x
0.65" L x
7.92" H
“Burnout is the gold standard of self-help books, delivering cutting-edge science with energy, empathy, and wit. The authors know exactly what’s going on inside your frazzled brain and body, and exactly what you can do to fix it. . . . Truly life-changing.”—Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of Calm the F*ck Down
“In Burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski deconstruct the stress we experience as women, and their compassionate, science-based advice on how to release it made me cry with gratitude and relief. Repeatedly. In public. The book is that revolutionary and its authors that wonderful and wise.”—Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
“Reading Burnout, I knew this was not just another self-help book that keeps us trapped by the idea of female inadequacy. It turns our struggle with stress on its head and paves a meaningful path to what the authors call ‘growing mighty’ by bravely dropping in thoroughly contemporary and refreshing truth bombs, like, yeah, the patriarchal system is the issue, and goddamn it’s time we play by our own rules!”—Sarah Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
“The first sentence of Burnout says, ‘This is a book is for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough.”’ (I raised my hand in bed.) Emily Nagoski [and] her twin sister, Amelia, teamed up to write about how to combat stress, and they have a gift for making the self-help genre not make you want to poke your eyes out.”—Cup of Jo
Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life. She has a MS in counseling and a PhD in health behavior, both from Indiana University.
Amelia Nagoski holds a conductor with a DMA in conducting from the University of Connecticut. An assistant professor and coordinator of music at Western New England University, she regularly presents educational sessions discussing the application of communications science and psychological research for audiences of other professional musicians, including “Beyond Burnout Prevention: Embodied Wellness for Conductors.”
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