Reviews

Burnout: The secret to solving the stress cycle by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski

paulinaivette's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

katherinejuneee's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

jlsjourneys's review against another edition

4.0

Parts of this were life-changing (completing the stress cycle); other parts (the madwoman within) I found hard to connect with and a little eye-rolly in the way they were presented. But overall, a very helpful read.

megpie3's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

gmf's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

lisamchuk's review against another edition

3.0

There’s a lot of good in this book. There were a lot of interesting, useful, aha, healing thoughts. But it’s also very gendered, although there is a disclaimer at the beginning about their focus on “women” and how the definition can be broadened - yet still I think it would be difficult to see yourself in this book if you weren’t a “woman”. It’s also easy to see yourself in this book if you’re a mom/wife, but if you’re not (like me) you may need to do a lot of thought stretching. This at times got tiring and at times made me feel “other/not normal”, but this is my constant state trying to fight against dominating societal norms anyways so clearly it affects my lens through which I consumed this content. It’s a good book. There is practical learning in here. I hope you can access that growth through the lens you view the world through, whatever that may be.

kmartins1994's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

azureyoshi's review against another edition

2.0

There was nothing new from this one for me, unfortunately.

authorannafaundez's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

This is a book everyone should read, to be honest. It's geared toward women and (sometimes) hetero couples, because that's where most of the research is right now, but the authors acknowledge that and move forward smoothly and inclusively as best they can.

In some ways, I feel like I understand myself a little better now. And I feel inspired to be kinder to myself as well. I'll make friends with my crazy woman in the attic. Or at least try.

The audio quality was very good. I'm glad the authors were the readers, as I felt it added to the experience.

My one complaint was almost every time the word "patriarchy" was said, the authors would also add an "ugh" before continuing. It was funny the first few times--and I totally agree: patriarchy = ugh--but it got old pretty fast and would break my concentration.

I'll still be getting a physical copy of this for myself so I can take notes, highlight, and input my own comments.

carrie_bize's review against another edition

3.0

Tatsächlich geht es in dem Buch vor allem um "Stress". Das ist auch der deutsche Titel und trifft den Inhalt meiner Meinung nach besser. Die Autorinnen zeigen woher unser Stress kommt und wie wir ihm begegnen können um dadurch nicht krank zu werden.

Die Autorinnen weben hier auch spezielle Faktoren und Informationen für Frauen und weiblich gelesene Personen ein. Sie beleuchten das Thema also auch von einer feministischen Seite. Das fand ich sehr spannend im Kontext von Stress und Arbeitswelt. In anderen Kontexten war es für mich manchmal etwas zu präsent bzw hatte ich das Gefühl man kommt schon weit vom eigentlichen Thema ab.

Trotzdem habe ich viele gute Denkanstöße und Tipps bekommen, von denen ich einige seit Beginn des Buches auch schon umgesetzt habe oder noch dabei bin.