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To quote the authors, Ugh. Or (ugh). It started out quite reasonably talking about burnout and how it affects us. Moved into ways to deal with both the stress and the stressors. Then suddenly I was Smashing the Patriarchy. I thought they painted with a very broad brush on the Patriarchy but also seemed only interested in women with full time jobs, husbands, and kids. It just kept getting into stranger and stranger jargon they made up and I finally stopped caring if what they said was correct or helpful and found it all irritating. Which is a same because there probably was good information but it was lost in stories of Star Trek (her name is Uhuru no Uhura) and Madwoman in the Attic and way too much other stuff.

I picked this from the library when I started to listen to the authors on a podcast but I found the same things that drove me crazy in that (and caused me to stop listening) were also here in the book. At least no one sang in book.
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amyem58 | 31 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 31, 2023 |
I tend to be a little bit wary of self-help books, especially if they make pop culture references because I feel like that dates them, but Burnout quite concisely describes the reasons for stress (we tend to freeze or flee or 'just grit your teeth and deal with it' without actually completing the stress cycle to release) and ways to alleviate that in our lives. It neatly packages a lot of what I stumbled into through my university's CAPS after nearly crashing and burning in grad school about self-compassion and recognizing it's okay to be kind to yourself, including thatinternal critical voice as part of yourself as well.

I tend to skim through other reviews before posting mine, just to see if I'm on a similar wavelength as other readers and this one seems to be polarizing- alas, I do wonder if some of the negative reviews would be less harsh if they became aware of the impact that systemic patriarchy has on nearly every aspect of society, and how there's a lot of stress on being a "Human Giver" as the Nagoski sisters put it.
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Daumari | 31 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 28, 2023 |
I think self-help really isn't my thing, but this is a subject that is of some interest to me this year and came recommended, so I went in with an open mind. There were some concrete ideas that were definitely of value for me, especially around physically managing the stress cycle so that it can conclude rather than keep spinning, and hammering home the importance of sleep... someday I'll internalize that one. I guess that's the point of this kind of book, take what you need and leave the rest... Anyway, I'm glad I read it even if not all of it stuck.… (lisätietoja)
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lisapeet | 31 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 28, 2023 |
There IS some useful information about the stress cycle in this book but the overly casual, self-help lite tone wasn't for me.
 
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mmcrawford | 31 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 5, 2023 |

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