Burnout: Why You Feel Exhausted (Even When You're Doing Everything Right)

After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Dear Media and Big Little Feelings

Big Little Feelings, After Bedtime, Deena Margolin, After Bedtime With Big Little Feelings, Kids & Family, Parenting, 105161, Kristin Gallant

4.7 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you're a parent doing everything for everyone - and still feel like you’re barely holding it together… If you’re exhausted no matter how much sleep you get… If you're doing all the “right” things, but are still snapping, numbing out, or shutting down… You’re not just tired. You’re burnt out.

In this episode, we break down the real reason you feel stuck, and what to do about it. You’ll learn:

The difference between stress and burnout (and why it’s critical to know it as a parent)
How to tell if you're stuck in a stress loop that's wrecking your energy, mood, and connection with your kids
The 6 science-backed tools that will actually help you feel better
What happens to your body and brain when burnout goes untreated
The small, daily shifts that will help you recover - without changing your entire life

This is not self-care fluff. This is neuroscience. This is your permission to stop pushing through - and start coming back to life.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:05.0	If you feel exhausted all the time, even when you're technically getting sleep and you've
0:10.8	tried rest, you've tried breaks, you've tried deep breathing, you've tried everything,
0:15.8	and nothing is touching that baseline of burnout, this episode is for you. Today, Dean and I are breaking down
0:23.7	the science of burnout and not in the you should go take a bath kind of way. We're talking about
0:30.6	what's actually happening in your body and your brain, why the usual advice doesn't work,
0:36.6	and how to finally complete the stress cycle,
0:40.3	okay, which is something not a lot of us even know about this stress cycle and how to actually
0:46.1	close it. We've definitely never been taught how to close it. And so today, we're talking about
0:53.1	what's actually happening in your body, in your
0:55.6	brain, in your nervous system, and why the usual advice doesn't work. Let's get into it.
1:03.9	Welcome to after bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins. The thoughts,
1:12.6	the questions, the wondering if you're doing any of this right. We're Kristen and Dina, child behavior experts, moms, and co-founders
1:18.7	of big little feelings, and we're not here to give you more pressure or perfect parenting energy.
1:23.7	Nope, we're here to tell the truth, the unfiltered, beautiful, brutal truth about what it means to raise kids and re-raise ourselves in the process.
1:33.3	Because parenting isn't just about sleep schedules and snack hacks. It's about healing. It's about breaking cycles.
1:39.3	It's about becoming the kind of adult you want your kids to grow up to be.
1:43.3	This is the place where we say the
1:45.0	quiet parts out loud and we're so glad that you're here. Dina, hello. Hi. Hi. Hey. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you?
1:55.6	I miss you living here. Oh, I saw you yesterday.
2:03.7	We see each other literally all the time.
2:04.9	Still miss you.
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