Cheese Sticks, Screens, And Total Meltdowns: The Complexity of Burnout

Burnout isn’t just a packed calendar or a brutal workweek. Sometimes it’s the quiet build up of stress from responsibilities, screens, emotional labor, and the stubborn belief that we should be able to carry it all alone. We start with the raw feelings most people recognize exhaustion, being drained, hitting the edge then we pull apart what actually creates burnout and why it shows up so differently in different lives. We wrestle with the real question: is burnout a workload problem, or a ne...