The Cure for Burnout: How to Build Better Habits, Find Balance, and Reclaim Your Life

“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers eager to reclaim their time and energy.” —Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you’re in need of a cure for burnout. 

In The Cure for Burnout, burnout management coach and TikTok influencer Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research, her expertise in organizational psychology, and the tried-and-true strategies she’s successfully implemented with clients around the globe to demystify burnout for our post-pandemic world – and set you on a path toward a life of personal and professional balance. Ballesteros outlines five areas in which you can build healthy habits to combat burnout—mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries, and stress management. She offers clear, easy-to-implement tools to help you find greater balance, energy, and fulfillment, showing you how to:  

break burnout habits that keep you in a pattern of chronic overwhelm create sustainable work/life balance through predictable personal careget more done in less time while creating forward momentum toward a meaningful lifeidentify and set your personal and professional limits, guilt-freemaster your stress and detach from your stressors

The Cure for Burnout provides a holistic method for burnout management to address the epidemic of our always-on, chronically overextended culture, empowering us to reclaim control of our own lives once and for all.

About the Author

Emily Ballesteros holds a master's degree in industrial-organizational psychology and worked in corporate training and development before launching her burnout management coaching business. In addition to being featured in media such as The Wall Street Journal and CNBC, she regularly provides burnout trainings for corporations like PepsiCo, Salesforce, and Thermo Fisher, among others.

Author Residence: Seattle, WA

Author Hometown: Sacramento, CA