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The world is a terrible mess and I, like you, am trying to fix it. But I get tired. Don’t you get tired? And overwhelmed? When we’re overwhelmed or exhausted as we resist, persist, etc., what do we do? What helps?
While we were writing our book
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, my twin sister and I read a bunch of research, and you know what it said would help us?
Gratitude.
Sigh.
I know. I was disappointed too, and don’t worry, there are at least a dozen other answers in our book. Some of the answers are simple (if not always easy): move your body, sleep, connect. Some are not simple: smash the patriarchy a little each day, protect yourself from the Bikini Industrial Complex, and consider something we call “Human Giver Syndrome...