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A review by cat_rector
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski
5.0
4.5 rounded up. This serves as a great piece of validation and a reminder to women that rest is not a betrayal.
While not all topics in this book were new to me, or not all of them served me, I hope to use it as reinforcement for several parts of my life. The largest and most important thing I got out of this book was the term Human Giver Syndrome, which is the deep need to give of yourself until your well is past dry and everyone around you has benefitted from your suffering. I've been guilty of this all my life, perhaps worse than many of the women around me, because I saw selfishness all around me in my youth. As an adult I can see so many of those "selfish" simple acts as a loyalty to self, and it's past time that I develop a few of my own "selfish" habits.
Aside from this introspection, I found the information about completing the stress cycle to be helpful, and hopefully one I can put into use in the future.
If you're looking for something to explain why you're a woman who's so fucking tired all the time, this is the book for you.
While not all topics in this book were new to me, or not all of them served me, I hope to use it as reinforcement for several parts of my life. The largest and most important thing I got out of this book was the term Human Giver Syndrome, which is the deep need to give of yourself until your well is past dry and everyone around you has benefitted from your suffering. I've been guilty of this all my life, perhaps worse than many of the women around me, because I saw selfishness all around me in my youth. As an adult I can see so many of those "selfish" simple acts as a loyalty to self, and it's past time that I develop a few of my own "selfish" habits.
Aside from this introspection, I found the information about completing the stress cycle to be helpful, and hopefully one I can put into use in the future.
If you're looking for something to explain why you're a woman who's so fucking tired all the time, this is the book for you.