Burnout

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA

Narrated by: Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead

“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully.

Burnout. You, like most American women, have probably experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap. Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the all-too-familiar cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. They compassionately explain the obstacles and societal pressures we face—and how we can fight back.

You’ll learn
• what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle
• 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—and how to defend yourself against it
• why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering from and preventing burnout

With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in Burnout—and will be empowered to create positive change.

A BOOKRIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Critic reviews

“Burnout is the gold standard of self-help books, delivering cutting-edge science with energy, empathy, and wit. The authors know exactly what’s going on inside your frazzled brain and body, and exactly what you can do to fix it. . . . Truly life-changing.”—Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of Calm the F*ck Down

“In Burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski deconstruct the stress we experience as women, and their compassionate, science-based advice on how to release it made me cry with gratitude and relief. Repeatedly. In public. The book is that revolutionary and its authors that wonderful and wise.”—Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

“Reading Burnout, I knew this was not just another self-help book that keeps us trapped by the idea of female inadequacy. It turns our struggle with stress on its head and paves a meaningful path to what the authors call ‘growing mighty’ by bravely dropping in thoroughly contemporary and refreshing truth bombs, like, yeah, the patriarchal system is the issue, and goddamn it’s time we play by our own rules!”—Sarah Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful

“The first sentence of Burnout says, ‘This is a book is for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough.”’ (I raised my hand in bed.) Emily Nagoski [and] her twin sister, Amelia, teamed up to write about how to combat stress, and they have a gift for making the self-help genre not make you want to poke your eyes out.”—Cup of Jo

Ladies (and honestly gentlemen and non-binary folx too) please read this book!

This book is so incredibly helpful. Science backed tools to help you live life more fully! Just read it. You won’t regret it.

Every Woman Needs to Read This Book

This was a wonderful book. Practical, scientific and heartfelt. Thank you Nagoski sisters for having the courage to be vulnerable and real and share your experience with others.

Game Changer

First of all, I love it when the author reads their own book but bonus points if it’s an enjoyable performance, and this was. It was easy to listen to and had an element with the readings that you wouldn’t experience in print.

The content of the book itself is a must read for any woman in western society. It covers every aspect of what causes our stress and how to reframe and manage our reactions to it.

This should be required reading for high school girls.

Bravo!

Great for a time of transi9

I felt some heavy uneasiness when I changed jobs this year. This book spoke to and validated that feeling.

I took tons of notes

This book is rich in content, full of good examples and refreshing humor, and it was performed really well.