I invited Studio member and client: Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch to share something about her experience of burnout. She preferred an interview to a guest blog post.

I learned a lot from this conversation and I think you will too. Fixing this requires systemic changes that are out of our control. That is frustrating, or even enraging.

As Emily and Amelia Nagoski point out in their excellent book on the topic, you can't fight for those systemic changes when you are suffering from burnout. If listening/reading is distressing, take a break. Look after yourself. Acknowledging the problem is the first step to fixing it, even if it's not obvious how, or if, it can be fixed. Making things 5% better is worth it.

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