Burnout - Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Burnout

By Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

  • Release Date: 2019-03-26
  • Genre: Self-Improvement
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 155 Ratings

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

Reviews

  • 10/10 ✨

    5
    By maaaasa12
    Highly recommend this book—will be reading it again. So empowering!
  • Just what the doctor ordered

    5
    By KennyGrav
    Just what I needed to reset after a year in quarantine.
  • Game changer

    5
    By rmariejg
    An incredible book I didn’t realize I needed-but wow, I REALLY needed it. Thank you Emily & Amelia!
  • Absolutely Excellent

    5
    By meredelamer
    Truly helpful, insightful, research-backed book. So many times I felt an eerie sense that they (the authors) had reached into my brain or secretly listened in on my conversations with friends or my therapist. I'm buying a few copies for some women in my life!
  • Every Woman Should Read This

    5
    By VenitaLynn
    Learned about the book while listening to Brene Brown’s podcast. While it’s too early to say as much as I’ve just finished the book in 2 days, I believe this book has changed the trajectory of my life. I’ve been in weekly therapy for months after years of trauma, and my therapist has been encouraging me to “get back into my body” and I kept telling her, “I don’t understand what that looks like.” She would make suggestions that appear in this book, ie take a walk, exercise. It wasn’t until reading this book that it finally clicked in a way that I could understand. The book was also extremely validating and helped me see that not only am I not alone in my experiences, many of them are so common as to appear in the data as the average. In my life I have one big Kobayashi Maru (unwinnable situation), so the section on creating goals to keep the “Monitor” satisfied was especially helpful. I haven’t felt so excited by a book in a very, very long time. Cannot recommend it enough.
  • Reading again...

    5
    By audreygoff
    There is so much I love and appreciate about this book. I have been able to put much of this into action within days of starting this book. I will be reading again and telling everyone woman in my tribe to pick this up. What a gift these woman have brought to us.