A review by rvlgonzalez
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski

I found it a bit liberal, tbh. The sort of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, no really, you can do it, girlie <3" energy that doesn't really do much to address how often the situations inducing stress are intractable. Also, they start the book acknowledging that not every woman was born and raised cis and that not every non-woman cannot relate to womanhood, they simply have to go with the science which mostly observes cis women, and then they spend the entire book giving some just real cishetnormative cultural advice. Also, as a neuroscientist, I don't love when other scientists are so reductive when conveying the message to non-scientists. I guarantee every study they cite has a mess ton of nuance they gloss over.

With that said, I read this for book club and will not fully know my opnions until after Cary and Elli have shared their perspectives.