summary ofBurnoutBook by Emily Nagoski, PhD, Amelia Nagoski, DMA

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The burnout formula

You know that feeling when you collapse into bed after a long day, completely drained, but your mind won't stop racing through tomorrow's to-do list? When you've given everything to everyone else, yet somehow feel like you're still not enough? Well, these feelings actually have a name: emotional exhaustion. It happens when you spend so much energy caring for others that you forget to care for yourself.Emotional exhaustion is one of three components of burnout, first defined by psychologist Herbert Freudenberger in 1975. The second is when your empathy starts to fade, and you find yourself caring less about people and situations that once mattered. The third one hits when nothing you do feels like it makes a difference anymore.If these three symptoms sound painfully familiar, you're definitely not alone. But here's what most people don't realize: emotional exhaustion happens when you get trapped in an endless loop of feelings with no way out.That's why people in caring professions experience more burnout than others. The numbers tell the story: teachers report burnout rates of 20-30%, while medical professionals hit 52%.

But here's the hope: science has given us proven strategies not just to survive burnout, but to completely transform how we handle stress. Stay with us as we explore each one of these life-changing tools together. Reclaim your energy and find your way back to yourself.