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Listen to this episode from Unlocking Us with Brené Brown on Spotify. Burnout. We're all experiencing it and we're all desperate for a way through it. In this episode, I talk to Drs. Emily and Amelia Nagoski about what causes burnout, what it does to our bodies, and how we can move through the emotional exhaustion.

Listen to this episode from Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel on Spotify. As 2020 slogs to a close, the Hello Monday team and community has been feeling burnout creeping in. To better understand what it is and how to cope with it, Jessi sits down with Emily and Amelia Nagoski - sisters, and authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.

Listen to this episode from Tilted: A Lean In Podcast on Spotify. Exhausted. Stressed. Anxious. Berating yourself for "not doing enough." These are all signs of burnout-and too many women are intimately familiar with them. For years we've known burnout affects women more than men, and now COVID-19 has made it even worse.

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Beating Burnout: Sisters Write Book To Help Women Overcome Stress Cycle

“Sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski speak with NPR's Aarti Shahani about their new book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski… {have] written a new book that asks us all to step back and really look at how women are pushed to the breaking point. It's called "Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle." The sisters told us why they decided to write this book. “

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Meet 2 sisters on a mission to beat burnout

TODAY’s Maria Shriver takes a closer look at burnout, talking to two sisters, Emily and Amelia Nagoski, about the warning signs and how this phenomenon affected them.

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Bustle: 'Burnout' Is An Essential Guide To Tackling Stress, Aimed Specifically At Women

“While countless articles and books have been written on the "problems" of the millennial generation, few have offered practical solutions. How can you deal with this burnout in a healthy and productive way? How can you get back to living our lives instead of drowning in you perceived failures?

Written by sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, Burnout lays out the complex reasons behind burnout and how to tackle them head-on, and it's specifically aimed at women.”

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The Washington Post: From moms to medical doctors, burnout is everywhere these days

A common ailment is going around, and you probably know someone plagued by it. Caused in part by social media, the 24-hour news cycle and the pressure to check work email outside of office hours, it could hit you, too — especially if you don’t know how to nip it in the bud.

Burnout is everywhere.”

Twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski are co-authors of Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle, a groundbreaking new book explaining how women experience stress differently than men, the structural misogyny that perpetuates it, and how we can fight it together.

Podcast 118: BURNOUT Part 2 – Changing Your Relationship to Your “Madwoman in the Attic”

“We’re discussing why you should stop fighting your “inner critic” (that voice in your head constantly shouting at you, judging you and shaming you). In reality, this “madwoman in the attic” is trying to tell you something valuable about who you are, which can be really helpful in moving forward from BURNOUT because you stop pretending to be who the world wants you to be.”

(In which Amelia interrupts conversation to sing fair use snippets of a Disney song and do a Yoga impression.)

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LISTEN TO PART 1 HERE

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ELLE.com : 25 OF THE BEST BOOKS TO READ IN SPRING 2019

#12 Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski (March 26)

“ Emily Nagoski demystified sex with a clear, frank scientific approach in Come as You Are. Here, she pairs up with her sister Amelia with a topic that makes me say "Gimme"—burnout and how women can avoid it. “

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Life Death Law Podcast: Burnout

Emily Nagoski, PhD, and her sister Amelia Nagoski, DMA, authors of the new book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, know all about accomplishment -- Emily is the author of the New York Times best-seller, Come as You Are: the surprising new science that will transfrom your sex life, and Amelia is a professor of music and a classical conductor. They also know, first hand, about the feelings of emotional overwhelm and exhaustion that can come with that accomplishment, so they wrote a book about how to overcome it.

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The Woman’s Podcast from The Irish Times

Ep 293 Burnout: "The patriarchy really wants women to be exhausted"

“The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is the primary cause of burnout. Why? Because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space. On today's show we speak to identical twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, authors of a groundbreaking new book about women and stress. It is called Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle and it is a science-based book also drawing on the writers' personal experiences and those of the hundreds of women the spoke to for this eye-opening and entertaining account of burnout. “

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The MotherKind Podcast: Ep.54 Are you burnt out? with Amelia & Emily Nagoski

“What is burnout? How do you know if you are burnt out? And how you recover from it? Emily and Amelia Nagoski are highly accomplished in their fields as individuals, with Emily working as a well-known sex educator and Amelia working as a conductor in the competitive world of classical music. Despite these accomplishments, the two struggled with stress, feelings of inadequacy, and veering towards burnout in their careers, and have since dedicated themselves to educating women across all careers on the factors that lead to burnout and the best way to avoid it. “

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The Key to Avoiding Burnout

“A Q&A with Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA “

Like it or not (and we go with not), there is “a cultural expectation that women will just give and give until they have nothing left,” says Amelia Nagoski. “Whereas men notice their exhaustion and have cultural permission to rest and be cared for, women are expected to tolerate a degree of stress so profound, they might end up hospitalized.”

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Feeling overwhelmed? Applying this scientifically approved formula to your day could be the solution, as Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski explain in their new book, Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress.

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Book Review - Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Sarah: Burnout seared my brain with essential information about how my brain and body work, and what specific things I can do to care for myself. “

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If you’re unhappy with your body, just repeat after us: You are the new hotness

“Too many of us struggle to achieve a body ideal that’s just not obtainable by humans. It’s time to redefine what’s good, healthy and attractive on our own terms, say writers (and sisters) Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski.”

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The Ray D’Arcy Show: Burnout - Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Do you often feel overwhelmed, like you’re not doing enough? Sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski have written a new book looking at Burnout and how emotional exhaustion affects women differently than men.
Based on their own experiences and backed up by science, they share how to cope with stress.
Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s book ‘Burnout’ is out now.

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FARM IRELAND - Tired but wired: Why are so many of us suffering burnout and what can we do about it?

“Exhausted and stressed out? We are all, it seems, increasingly overstimulated, over-caffeinated, oversubscribed and under pressure. Julia Molony investigates how to recognize the symptoms of this epidemic and what to do about it”

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W MAGAZINE: Demi Moore on Goop, Saying Yes, and Accepting the Effects of Age: "Because Things Do Change"

“I wouldn’t say I’m a 'goop person,'” said one 26-year-old finance executive. “I thought it was shallow and elitist. But a lot of my friends are obsessed, so I was curious. And after coming here today, my new take is that it has more depth than I thought, and offers ideas and solutions that a lot of people can relate to.” Her favorite panel? A class on beating burnout and managing stress led by writer and researcher Emily Nagoski.

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WBGY Connecting Point: Overcoming Burnout Authors Emily & Amelia Nagoski

Life can sometimes seem like a rat race: work, school, obligations, bills, housework, homework…and then you get up and it starts all over again. Many would say that’s life, but sometimes the pressures can get to a point where you experience burnout. Twin sisters and authors Emily and Amelia Nagoski new book“Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle” look at burnout and how women specifically can overcome the challenges that lead to burnout.

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