Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

This groundbreaking audiobook explains why women experience burnout differently than men amp;mdash; and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What¿s expected of women and what it¿s really like to be a woman in today¿s world are two very different things amp;mdash; and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you ¿love your body¿ when every magazine cover has 10 diet tips for becoming ¿your best self¿? How do you ¿lean in¿ at work when you¿re already operating at 110 percent and aren¿t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you¿re 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 we¿re up against amp;mdash; and show us how to fight back.

In this audiobook, you¿ll learn:

• What you can do to complete the biological stress cycle amp;mdash; 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 amp;mdash; and 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 exercises, all women will find something transformative in this audiobook amp;mdash; and will be empowered to create positive change. Emily and Amelia aren¿t 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 are amp;mdash; and that wellness, true wellness, is within our reach.