The Essential Guide to Burnout: Overcoming Excess Stress

Increasing numbers of people are enduring huge levels of stress: economic pressures, family concerns, worries about jobs and health--the list goes on and on. For some, the stress gets worse and worse, accumulating until they cannot get out of bed in the morning. Their personality changes, their relationships become strained, and before long, they realize they've gone past their limit. Their mind, body, and spirit simply cannot take any more.

Burnout can be a devastating experience, affecting nearly every aspect of your life. The good news is that burnout is both treatable and preventable. The Essential Guide to Burnout covers everything you need to know about how to recover when life gets to be too much, including stress, brownout (the stop on the way to burnout), and, of course, burnout, when you cannot go on. Wherever you are on the slope toward burnout, this book serves as a first step toward a full recovery, providing all the necessary tools to ensure you never go back.

Written by a husband and wife team who combine expertise in counselling and psychiatry, and full of interviews with those who have beaten burnout, The Essential Guide to Burnout contains wisdom and advice to help you gain back peace, productivity, and a sense of your best and healthiest self.

Andrew Procter is a practicing counselor, ordained minister in the Church of England, and member of the Rochester Diocesan Council for health and healing.

Elizabeth Procter has worked in psychiatry for more than 25 years and specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry.