Description: This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than menand provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. What is burnout? Many women in America have experienced it. Whats expected of women and what its really like to be a woman in todays world are two very different thingsand women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you love your body when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming your best self? How do you lean in at work when youre already operating at 110 percent and arent recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you youre too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what were up againstand show us how to fight back. In these pages youll learn what you can do to complete the biological stress cycleand 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 bodiesand how to defend yourself against it why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering and preventing burnout With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in these pagesand will be empowered to create positive change. Emily and Amelia arent here to preach the broad platitudes of expensive self-care or insist that we strive for the impossible goal of having it all. Instead, they tell us that we are enough, just as we areand that wellness, true wellness, is within our reach.
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Book Title: Burnout : the Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Women's Health, General, Women's Studies, Self-Management / Stress Management
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Health & Fitness, Self-Help, Psychology
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Author: Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback