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Your Family, Your Library Podcast: Burnout (Episode 14)
These books explore the feelings of burnout so many face. Pragmatism, empathy, commiseration, and advice for making welcome changes are common themes throughout this list.
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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
2022 by Grose, JessicaGet this itemLooking at the complexity of modern motherhood through a scientific and historical lens, Jessica Grose's exploration is timely, relatable, and will certainly resonate with parents who are struggling to meet societal expectations--especially when those seemingly impossible standards are amplified via social media.
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
2018 by Ziegler, SherylGet this itemThe ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom." It's filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause.
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Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture
2022 by Dooner, CarolineGet this itemThis book takes a dive into the culture of self-help and society's need to constantly improve. Recommending a course of intentional, radical rest, Caroline Dooner encourages us all to do less.
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The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
2024 by Ballesteros, EmilyGet this itemThis book provides a holistic method for burnout management to address the epidemic of our always-on, chronically overextended culture, empowering us to reclaim control of our own lives once and for all.
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From Burnout to Balance: 60+ Healing Recipes & Simple Strategies to Boost Mood, Immunity, Focus & Sleep
2022 by Bannan, PatriciaGet this itemExploring the science of burnout, this book offers practical maintenance solutions and simple, healthy recipes to help provide some respite from overwhelming feelings of anxiety and unrest.
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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
2022 by Davis, KCGet this itemFull of practical, empathetic advice, this book extends a pragmatic hand to anyone who feels like they're under water, where domestic duties are a bridge too far.
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State Change: End Anxiety, Beat Burnout, and Ignite a New Baseline of Energy and Flow
2022 by Berzin, RobinGet this itemFunctional medicine innovator and founder of nationally renowned practice Parsley Health, this book is Robin Berzin's definitive work on how to fight the physical ailments at the root of the international epidemic of burnout, anxiety, and stress.
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout
2024 by Newport, CalGet this itemCal Newport encourages readers to focus on slowing down, varying pace, and focusing on meaningful, quality work over fast-paced, quantified achievement.
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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
2023 by Stauffer, RainesfordGet this itemThis book looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.
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Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats
2021Get this itemSometimes, when everything is too much, it helps to laugh. Covering topics like "The Struggle Is Real" and "Self Love & Loathing," these short poems, written by hilarious comics, take the edge off of "the dystopian present."
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Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
2020 by Petersen, Anne HelenGet this itemAn incendiary examination of burnout in millennials--the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change. Using a combination of sociohistorical framework, original interviews, and detailed analysis, this book offers a galvanizing, intimate, and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation.
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