the secret to unlocking the stress cycle

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men-and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.īurnout. “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game-changer.”-Brené Brown, PhD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dare to Lead.Summing up, there is a blog post worth of insight in the book but its title is misleading, its length is drawn out, and the style is definitely not my cup of tea.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This reads like a young adult book or magazine. My biggest gripe was with how it personifies behaviors and processes. It’s filled with anecdotes, hard to say which ones are factual and which are just stories to prove a point. It reads like a tweetstorm, to the point of spelling out hashtags and meme catch phrases. On the flip side, the book’s style was the one thing I didn’t like much. This sounds reasonable and intriguing, I will be trying this out. It talks of completing “stress cycles” through those means. Increase the rest you’re getting through sleep, food, friends, movement, and self-compassion. The advice this book presents to combat burnout can be summarized in one sentence. It seems like a woman reader will have to do some additional reading on the topic to learn of the gender neutral causes of burnout, and more importantly, to learn about recognizing it in self and others, which this book talks relatively little about.

The causes of burnout the authors cover sound incomplete and dry without some focus on what burnout actually is, how it ties to other mental health issues. It’s an accumulation of hundreds of tiny disappointments. In my previous reading, I gathered that burnout happens when deadlines, demands, working hours, other stressors outweigh rewards, recognition, relaxation. While those things are strongly related to female burnout, the title concept itself is not very thoroughly covered. The book focuses on patriarchy, societal abuse of people with natural giver/caretaker tendencies, as well as popular culture beauty standards, and judgmental inner voices. I’ll keep this short and will not put a numeric rating. As a man, I realize I’m not in the target audience for this book. Books Lifestyle Movies Music Philosophy Programming RPLKTR # Emily Nagoski - “Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle”Ī more accurate title for the book would have been “hashtag burnout: a feminist perspective”.

The secret to unlocking the stress cycle