Find helpful resources for understanding and recovering from burnout, including books, blog posts, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Books
Blog Posts
- How to Recover From Burnout Step by Step?
- How to Cope with Burnout? (Everything You Need to Know)
- How to Recognize the Early Signs of Workplace Burnout?
- How to Protect Your Marriage From Burnout?
- How to Set Boundaries That Prevent Zoom Burnout?
- How to Use Boundaries to Reduce Burnout?
- How to Avoid Burnout While Chasing New Year’s Goals?
- How to Rebuild Your Emotional Bandwidth After Burnout?
Burnout Podcasts
- FRIED. The Burnout Podcast — Cait Donovan
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A podcast focused specifically on workplace burnout, chronic stress, resentment, workload, boundaries, leadership, and organizational problems that contribute to burnout. It is especially useful for understanding burnout as more than simply an individual failure to “cope better.” - The Burnout Recovery Podcast — Dr. Jo Braid
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Focuses on recognizing burnout, rebuilding sustainable work habits, managing workload, and making practical changes that help people continue working without repeatedly reaching exhaustion. It is particularly aimed at healthcare professionals.
Specific Burnout Podcast Episodes
- Why We’re Burned Out and What to Do About It — Speaking of Psychology
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Burnout researcher Dr. Christina Maslach explains what burnout actually is, how it differs from ordinary stress or tiredness, and the three major parts of burnout: exhaustion, growing negativity or cynicism toward work, and reduced professional effectiveness. She also explains why changing workplace conditions matters rather than placing the entire responsibility on employees. - How to Beat Burnout — Office Hours With Arthur Brooks
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Explores common signs and causes of burnout, why meaningful work can still become exhausting, workplace conditions that increase risk, and practical ways to create clearer limits between work and the rest of life. - How to Prevent Burnout — Fixable With Guy Winch
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Psychologist Guy Winch discusses what happens when work continues occupying your mind after the workday ends. The episode gives practical strategies for reducing after-hours work rumination, creating stronger boundaries, and making time away from work genuinely separate from work. - ‘Bossware’ and Burnout: The Psychology of Workplace Surveillance — Speaking of Psychology
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Psychologist Tara Behrend explains how constant employee monitoring can affect attention, behavior, stress, and burnout. It is especially useful for understanding how workplace systems and management practices can contribute to burnout. - Protecting Your Time With Linda Babcock — WorkLife
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Linda Babcock and Adam Grant discuss saying no, protecting your time, dealing with excessive requests, and avoiding unnecessary tasks that add to an already overloaded workload. (Apple Podcasts)
TED & TEDx Talks About Burnout
- How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts — Jacqueline Kerr
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Looks at workplace, caregiver, parental, and emotional burnout. Kerr argues that burnout prevention requires changes in individual behavior as well as organizational and cultural conditions rather than relying only on personal self-care. - How to Make Work Feel More Effortless — Sneha Mandala
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Challenges the belief that working harder is always the answer. Mandala discusses how the way work is structured can affect energy and engagement and offers ideas for making demanding work more sustainable. - How to Bounce Back From Burnout in 3 Simple Steps — Allan Ting
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Draws on Ting’s own experience of severe work burnout and offers a three-step framework for reconsidering workload, priorities, and the way success is pursued. - How to Tame Burnout When Your Office Is Your Bedroom — Susan David
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Psychologist Susan David discusses blurred work-life boundaries, unrealistic expectations, and knowing when continued persistence is useful versus when goals or demands need to change. - How to Turn Burnout Into Breakthrough — Oma Agbai
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Focuses particularly on high-achieving working mothers and the pressure to manage multiple demanding roles. Agbai discusses recognizing when achievement has become unsustainable and reassessing priorities and direction.
