The tradition of the personal essay remains a vital way to foster empathy and understanding in a digital world. 🏛️🖋️

I am sharing an evocative new series by Jacqui DeLorenzo: "Straight from My Heart." For those who value literature that prioritizes emotional honesty and professional reflection, Jacqui’s work is a refreshing resource.

Full series here:
🔗 https://www.jacquidelorenzo.com/straight-from-my-heart

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About to dive in ❤️📖

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First time ever hitting this mark on release day.

https://amazon.com/dp/B0DZ2ZCVX8

However long it lasts, thanks, everybody! 🚀🙂👍

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In the mood for something funny, feel-good and cosy, so Miss Buncle it is!

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Next to read,

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski Ph.D. & Amelia Nagoski DMA

breaking my list of compulsory readings.

Not difficult to guess why...

Burnout was first coined as a technical term by Herbert Freudenberger in 1975, “burnout” was defined by three components:
1. emotional exhaustion—the fatigue that comes from caring too much, for too long;
2. depersonalization—the depletion of empathy, caring, and compassion; and
3. decreased sense of accomplishment—an unconquerable sense of futility: feeling that nothing you do makes any difference.

Emily Nagoski began her career as a sex educator in 1995 when she became a peer health educator at the University of Delaware. She was trained to teach her fellow undergraduates about stress and physical activity. She went to Indiana University for an M.S. in Counseling Psychology, completing clinical internships at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic and the Indiana University’s LGBT Student Support Services Office. Nagoski continued on to earn a Ph.D. in Health Behavior with a concentration in human sexuality.

“The problem is not that women don’t try. On the contrary, we’re trying all the time, to do and be all the things everyone demands from us.”
― Emily Nagoski,

“Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering.”
― Emily Nagoski

#newread #burnout #emotionalexhaustion

"... There is nothing so killing as household care. Besides, the sex seems to be born tired. To be sure, there are some observers of our life who contend that with the advance of athletics among our ladies, with boating and bathing, and lawn-tennis and mountain-climbing and freedom from care, and these long summers of repose, our women are likely to become as superior to the men physically as they now are intellectually. It is all right. We should like to see it happen. It would be part of the national joke.”

-- William D. Howells, A Traveler from Altruria

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