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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
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."
Mark Anthony Neal is an author and professor of African American studies.
"The cure for burnout is not self-care. The cure for burnout is all of us caring for each other,” Amelia Nagoski, one of the authors of @burnoutbook, speaks about quiet quitting with @mimbsy: https://t.co/ORsecNBsbw
Abby Wambach is a retired soccer player, coach, and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
With everything going on in the world & so much to keep up with in our daily lives, many of us find ourselves in a state of burnout. Listen to @glennondoyle & Amanda on #WCDHT with @emilynagoski & Amelia Nagoski, authors of Burnout, answering your Qs. https://t.co/0rBw8zy0xt https://t.co/1JJPRFDcne
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"The cure for burnout is not self-care. The cure for burnout is all of us caring for each other,” Amelia Nagoski, one of the authors of @burnoutbook, speaks about quiet quitting with @mimbsy: https://t.co/j778Aapgr7
"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