Dancing around the edges of burnout seems like a permanent state for many of us. Whether we are parents, unpaid carers, worried about finances and world atrocities, going through relationship issues or health problems, fatigue and exhaustion are widespread. If everything goes OK, we stay in survival mode and can just about keep the show on the road, but if not, the collapse of burnout threatens.

In Radical Rest, Evie Muir states that we are collectively “disenfranchised and resentful, weary and depressed … With no opportunity to process these emotions, they are rendering us numb ...

 

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