93. BURNOUT: Do You Feel Half Alive?

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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1. With everything going on in the world, and in our lives, is “Burnout” the reason we all feel like zombies? 2. Why stress is like trash: You have to get rid of it often or your life starts to stink. 3. Emily and Amelia Nagoski – the authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle – answer our Pod Squad’s burning questions about how to bounce back from burnout. About Emily: EMILY NAGOSKI is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Come As You Are and The Come As You Are Workbook. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. Emily’s new podcast, Come As You Are, is launching this Summer and her forthcoming book, Come Together, will be released in 2023. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist. TW: @emilynagoski IG: @enagoski About Amelia: AMELIA NAGOSKI, Amelia is the co-author with Emily, of the New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. A Doctorate of Musical Arts, her job as she describes it is to run around waving her arms and making funny noises and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience. She lives in New England with her husband, one cat, and two rescue dogs. IG: @amelianagoski

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:14.4	Today, love bugs.
0:17.0	We are talking about burnout.
0:21.8	And the reason we are talking about burnout is that Sister and I, most days of our lives
0:28.0	we talk.
0:29.0	And we have begun to notice that every time we talk now, we are just staring at each
0:36.0	other, emotionless, going through lists of things that we either have to do or talk
0:42.4	about, just dead inside, just like robots of some sort.
0:52.8	Like we have run out, we used to call it in my family, like mommy's run out of mommy.
0:57.0	Like I have run out of Glenin, sister has run out of sister, we are, yeah.
1:04.4	And so I started paying attention to friends who are talking to me, honestly, about their
1:08.8	experience in life right now.
1:10.8	And the words they're using to describe themselves are so fascinating.
1:15.2	Zombie, robot, ghost, it's like so different than a couple years ago.
1:24.2	A couple of years ago, we had so much kind of fire and fight and fear and giddy up.
1:32.4	We were scared, but we were alive, fresh out of giddy up, fresh out of giddy up.
1:41.0	And so we started paying attention to this and hearing it more and more.
1:44.4	And we thought that we needed to talk about it.
1:46.9	So see, you found a quote that you loved that, yeah, I thought this is just life now.
1:53.0	I was like, well, this is just, this is just life now.
1:57.1	And then I heard this woman, Anne Helen Peterson, she was talking on a podcast.
2:02.0	And I just felt seen to my marrow when I heard this quote.
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