Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

by Emily Nagoski

Wellness is not a state of being, but a state of action.

Dirk Gently puts it, “I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.”

trapped here, I need the money, I have to

The quality of our lives, day to day, is measured by our freedom to choose to stay or leave. That freedom comes when we have abundance enough and safety enough to let go of what is broken and reach for something new.17

Hillary Clinton: “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, for as long as you can.”20

As the saying goes, “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” And “something” is anything that isn’t nothing.

Move your body anyway—because it really is good for you—and smile benevolently at the mess.

Sadness is the beacon; it is the Bat-Signal.

Sadness, rage, and the feeling that you are not “enough” are forms of loneliness. When you experience these emotions, connect.

Many of us simply get used to walking around in some degree of pain all the time; we consider it normal. It’s the cost of holding on to hope that we will, one day, meet Human Giver Syndrome’s standard and finally, at long last, fully belong in the human community and deserve love.