Comments on: Burnout: Unlocking the Stress Cycle Secret

By: Maria A Acuna Arreaza

Maria A Acuna Arreaza — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:17 +0000

A real life changer.

By: Alejandra

Alejandra — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:17 +0000

It helps me a lot to understand my self and my current mood. I can put my feeling in real context and accept my self with compassion and love. Thanks for writing this book.

By: Alyce Blyth

Alyce Blyth — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:15 +0000

Easy to read, easy to understand, mind blowing realisations

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:14 +0000

This book spoke directly to me. Recommended reading for women especially, at anytime in one’s life– not only when feeling tired and burntout.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:12 +0000

After a promising start, the book becomes extremely dull, repetitive, ideological, and goes off the track in unintended direction. it then keep on complaining about things that have nothing to do with self improvement. This book wil probably not help anyone.

By: Amazon Customer

Amazon Customer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:11 +0000

Good information, def pushing an agenda.
I wanted to love this book, I expected it based on reviews to be so helpful for myself and my clients. There is quite a slant to it that turned me off. It just wasnât necessary and adds nothing meaningful to the topic. I just donât think a book about stress needs to push any agenda- just keep it scientific and neutral. Everything now is so divided and partisan- a huge cause of stress so I didnât expect it here. Decent book, skimmed what felt like a talking point, and tried to pull out the useful.

By: Beguiled By Books

Beguiled By Books — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:11 +0000

Important for EVERYONE, not just women to read!
The word burnout crept up in my everyday use since 2019 â and then the pandemic hit. No travel. No casual shopping. No conferences. None of the usual ways to break up the days. Burnout, especially at work, snuck up on me. Much like my own burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, snuck up on me too.”First coined as a technical term by Herbert Freudenberger in 1975, “burnout” was defined by three components:1. emotional exhaustionâthe fatigue that comes from caring too much, for too long;2. depersonalizationâthe depletion of empathy, caring, and compassion;3. decreased sense of accomplishmentâan unconquerable sense of futility: feeling that nothing you do makes any difference.Written with women in mind, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle talks about the big and little stressors we experience daily â from the patriarchy (ugh) to the “second shift” most women have after work at home (house chores, caregiving). Compared to what it’s like to be a woman, what’s expected of women creates burnout without even realizing it. The authors discuss the Bikini Industrial Complex and the microaggressions women regularly experience for not looking, acting, or speaking in a certain way.Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle goes on to discuss how to complete the stress cycle. When we experience fight, flight, or freeze responses, our bodies react to those chemicals even though we are rarely in actual life-or-death experiences. The problems arise when we experience those reactions and don’t get the fulfillment of knowing we are no longer in a life-or-death situation.Too many women, especially women of color, grow up with unconscious biases about how we should behave, which is only exacerbated by others around us with unconscious biases. Before you know it, we’re working ourselves too much, developing physical symptoms from a life of microaggressions and minor stressors, and we reach a breaking point. A part of this book encourages you to be aware of times in your life when you need to move on from whatever is causing you stress.I appreciate a great deal about this book, but I loved how the authors didn’t promise your burnout will magically go away if you take luxurious baths every night or try and “lean in” at work more. The premise of Burnout empowers us to accept ourselves exactly as we are and know that we are enough.Buy Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle because we all need to work on unconscious biases around women at home, work, and in the world.

By: Foxy Roxy

Foxy Roxy — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:10 +0000

Great read!
Excellent book. Great read !

By: R. Jones

R. Jones — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:09 +0000

Makes me angry
I got this book because I keep getting myself into situations where I am doing too much. This book helps me understand why, but it also gets me angry and it’s a little cheesy sometimes. Overall, it’s good, but it’s bit overhyped.What I want is to stop caring and to feel secure enough to stop constantly trying to prove myself.Instead of helping me reflect on my behaviors, this book blames the patriarchy. Yeah, that is part of the problem, but I can’t control that piece.

By: SD

SD — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:09 +0000

Burnt out? Start here.
This book changed my life. Seriously. First as a burnout clergywoman and then as a clergy coach working with people existing in systems with expectations that have to be adjusted. So, so good! If you’re looking for an accessible read on the science and some very practical ideas, this is where you want to begin.