Episode 038: Book Breakdown: Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski

In this episode, I breakdown one of my favorite books, Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski. These sisters have included the science behind the stress cycle and how not completing the stress cycle is literally killing us women.

From www.burnoutbook.com:

ABOUT THE BOOK

BURNOUT is for women (or anyone) who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything they have to do, yet still worried they weren’t doing “enough.”

We wrote it because it’s the book we needed ourselves. It contains the science and stories that helped us through some of the roughest times of our lives and even may have saved Amelia’s life - twice.

THE “TL;DR” OF THE BOOK IS THIS:

Wellness is not a state of mind, but a state of action. It is the freedom to move through the innate cycles and oscillations of being human - from effort to rest and back, from connection to autonomy and back, from adventure to homecoming and back. But we have been lied to our whole lives about what wellness “should” look like, and rejecting that lie, all those myths about “having it all” and “finally achieving lasting peace” is how we create space in our lives for that free action through the cycle of being human.