Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 317 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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
Customer Reviews
See AllBrilliant, Scientific, Practical
At long freaking last there is a book with actionable ways to resolve stress! This is not another aspirational “I just need to work in some self-care tasks to my already impossibly packed day” self-help book. nor does it simply blame the system.
The is a way off the hamster wheel stress-fest that is surprisingly easy to accomplish. This is a truly life changing book that is long long overdue.
The speed of the audio book is perfect.
Waste of time…
“Down with the patriarchy”….”the game is rigged”. Blah blah blah. Poorly written. Biased.
Dishonest Science
I really wanted to like this book, I really liked what she was saying,but then I got to the portion about Health At Every Size… now I’m all for supporting women feeling beautiful but I actually looked up the scientific paper Emily quoted… and she LIED. The study says that it is ALWAYS better to be a healthy weight. The comparison Emily made about being ‘slightly’ overweight is healthier than being underweight was deceitful. Yes, it is healthier to have a BMI 5 points higher than it is to have a BMI 5 points lower than ideal weight…. but that is twisting the numbers. The 5 points BMI underweight includes the entire 3 categories of underweight/severely underweight/very severely underweight. So is it healthier to be 5 lbs overweight than to be a Holocaust victim? Sure. It is however not healthier if you compare being overweight to just being slightly underweight. The conclusion of the study is it is ALWAYS better to be a healthy weight for all causes of mortality. Now I can’t trust anything I read in this book and I want a refund. As another women who works in STEM I’m disappointed in Emily. Don’t read. Don’t buy.