Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Unabridged) Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Unabridged)

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Unabridged‪)‬

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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 the #1 New York Times bestseller Dare to Lead

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you “love your body” when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming “your best self”? How do you “lean in” at work when you’re already operating at 110 percent and aren’t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you’re too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish?

Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we’re up against—and show us how to fight back. In these pages you’ll learn

• what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle—and return your body to a state of relaxation
• 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 and preventing burnout

With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in these pages—and will be empowered to create positive change. Emily and Amelia aren’t here to preach the broad platitudes of expensive self-care or insist that we strive for the impossible goal of “having it all.” Instead, they tell us that we are enough, just as we are—and that wellness, true wellness, is within our reach.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT

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

GENRE
Self-Development
NARRATOR
Emily Nagoski, PhD
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:01
hr min
RELEASED
2019
March 26
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
344.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Victoria Lansford ,

Brilliant, 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.

littledevil83 ,

Waste of time…

“Down with the patriarchy”….”the game is rigged”. Blah blah blah. Poorly written. Biased.

Efhoxie ,

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.

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