Suffice it to say … yeah, this book is meant for me. Page xi of the introduction states, “Twenty to thirty percent of teachers in America have moderately high to high levels of burnout.” I nearly broke down crying when I read that, and we weren’t even into the book itself! I am a teacher in Canada, and you can read a little rant about my burnout here. It won’t fix your problems, but it might make life a little easier to bear. Instead, this is a book about recognizing and understanding where you are in your stress cycle and how you can manage that stress in a healthier way. It is a self-help book, but only in the most scientific and compassionate sense of that genre-the Nagoski twins make no promises of “curing” your burnout, and they evince a healthy skepticism of the self-care industry. As the subtitle implies, this book promises to deepen our understanding of burnout. Burnout is, as the title implies, about the sustained sensation many of us feel when we have overextended ourselves and depleted our resources. I received this book nearly a year ago (maybe a whole year ago) from my friend and former teaching colleague Emma.
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