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Burnout
- The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle
- Narrated by: Emily Nagoski
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Burnout by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski, read by Emily Nagoski.
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently from men - and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions and live a more joyful life.
The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. How can you 'love your body' when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you 'lean in' at work when you're already giving 110 percent and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, the best-selling author of Come as You Are, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion and confront the obstacles that stand between women and well-being.
With insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice and helpful worksheets and exercises, Burnout reveals:
- 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 fight back.
- Why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are key to recovering from and preventing burnout.
Eye-opening, compassionate and optimistic, Burnout will completely transform the way we think about and manage stress, empowering women to thrive under pressure and enjoy meaningful yet balanced lives. All women will find something transformative in these pages - and be empowered to create positive and lasting change.
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- Lisa
- 22-02-20
Life changing book! Im telling everyone about it!
This book blew my mind! and gave such a sense of peace to my restless stressed out mind! ha I feel empowered and educated about the cycle of stress and how to manage it better! Life changing book!
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- Dalia Courridge
- 11-09-19
LOVED this book
Absolutely loved this book and read it in 2 days. For someone who suffered from years of stress and ended up burnout to the point where it has affected me in all aspects of my life, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I wish I had read this 4- 5 years earlier.
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- Shelley
- 08-03-20
Boring
I thought this book would be about self care, however most of it seems to make the assumption that women are somehow taken advantage off and don’t know how to look after themselves. If you want to listen to a sexist, feminist wine about how life is so tough for women then this book is for you. As a strong independent female I did not align with it at all and found it very boring.
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- Bob
- 15-12-19
One of the best books I've read in 2019
It's not just for women. It's the book I wish I'd had years ago. Each chapter is so relevant and accessible I feel that this could so easily be adapted to be a course that I'd happily spend the rest of my life teaching/showing people. Congratulations to Emily and Amelia for writing one of the most sensible and inspiring 'self-help' books I've ever read and I've read so many! I've recommended it to my friends and two more copies are arriving today for me to give as gifts this Christmas to my favourite people.
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- Mrs Bennett
- 17-01-21
Phenomenal
Everyone, male or female, needs to read this. We are enough. Such an amazing book.
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- Oleg K
- 06-01-21
an eye-opener!
Having a burnout myself I feel deeply related to every paragraph. The value of the book is priceless, to me as a male, to me as a person with giver syndrome, to me as a husband, to me as a father, to me as a son, to me as a friend. I recommend this book to my daughters not because they have burnout, but to understand me, to understand others to understand the society we are living.
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- jess holliday
- 06-01-21
Absolutely amazing book – everybody should listen to this
This book should be essential mandatory reading for everybody. The burnout conversation is not had enough, not only the practical tips and advice but the astute awareness of how our social conditioning has brought us to the point of burnout is really amazing. I teach breathing meditation and yoga and I will definitely be incorporating a lot of what Emily and Amelia talk about in this book in my future classes and courses, to make my teachings even richer and the benefits from my students even better. Thank you thank you thank you for writing this book in such an accessible humorous way
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- Stravaigin
- 03-01-21
Good Advice and entertaining
Amusing, warm-hearted, evidence-based advice that you will find really helpful and relevant to your life.
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- Sarah Jane Vincent
- 31-12-20
Not What I Expected. A great read.
I really liked how the authors based their knowledge and expertise on scientific research. I really resonated with a lot of the examples used and can definitely put a lot of their teachings into practice. Thank you for taking the time to write such a helpful and practical book.
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- Nourhan
- 23-12-20
The audiobook that could be literally your friend!
This is one of the best books I have ever listened to! And for sure I'm going to re-listen it again❤️
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- Anonymous User
- 09-01-21
Amazing!
Every woman needs to read this book! I'm glad I read it. It's a really nice work!
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- Anonymous User
- 31-10-20
TLet us look after each other whilst looking after ourselves!
Amazing and very inspirational read thank you 🙏🏽 Every school, home, corporate, book club and person should have access to this book.
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- Rachel-Anne Peters
- 30-10-20
Life-changing
My therapist recommended this book to me when I was down and out, emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. Since listening to the audio book I have already started implementing some of the strategies (mainly around boundary setting) and am already seeing positive results! I absolutely loved the way that this book is not only written, but narrated in such a calm and soothing manner. It felt like I was getting guidance, compassion and reassurance from two maternalistic warriors, who have seen and done it all and could empathise with my pain. My only critique, would be the overly gendered language that was used. I could see NB, gender queer/questioning persons also identifying with the principals in this book. Perhaps the use of gender neutral pronouns might foster a better sense of inclusion. Otherwise, I love love love this book! I’m about to start listening to it again! Thank you Emily and Amelia for this wonderful gift.
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- lindaf
- 30-07-19
This isnt just a book for women!
I LOVED this book and having both authors narrate was fantastic. So many valuable learnings, key takeaways for me were how to recognise and complete the stress cycle (getting those 20 second hugs in regularly now!!), how to SMASH the patriarchy, and how to let go of being a human giver and the expectation that I need to do everything for everyone. I so enjoyed the emphasis in this book on the importance of support and connection, we are not meant to do things on our own. Buy this book, it will enrich your view of life!