Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski : The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care)

 Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
The cure for burnout (hint: it isn’t self-care)
Summary 

The speakers are identical twin sisters and the coauthors of a book about burnout. They experienced burnout and one knew it, but another didn’t know it. You mightn’t know it. 

Burnout is not spreading in the workplaces but expanding now. Decreasing sense of accomplishment, separating what you do and what you feel, though, working harder and harder. It leads to emotional exhaustion, physiological symptoms, huge stressors, and then, relaxing is not going to be an effective means of recovering from burnout.  

There’s a lot of overlap between burnout, depression, anxiety, grief, and rage, though, if you feel exhausted, you could pass through the tunnel, find the cycle of stress, and be aware of what is going on in your body. 

With kindness and compassion, you’re able to turn toward difficult feelings. Not self-care or autonomy, you need connection and love. 

The speakers grow up in a household where feelings were not allowed and they were not close their whole lives. They were isolated because they’ve been told that it’s stronger to be independent, though, it doesn’t seem to be true. It’s not too late. Because of the pandemic, everyone who works hard alone possibly faces burnout. However, you deserve care and love.