Why The Parent Burnout Problem Needs to Be Solved Now

Symptoms of parental burnout like exhaustion, overwhelm, apathy, and shame don't just impact our kids.

Hi Parents,

I was planning to just drop some links to random helpful things for you today…

when chronic stress and exhaustion overwhelm a parent’s ability to cope

I wrote a long post earlier this week on my yoga blog about burnout in highly sensitive people, and Wednesday is our free workshop on finding balance and preventing burnout.

That felt like enough. (I’ve been working on defining enoughness for myself.) I don’t want to be exhausted by this exploration into burnout.

But then…

My inbox and feed flooded with scary statistics about parental burnout, while offering very few useful solutions:

“Sixty-six percent (66%) of working parents reported being burned out.”
-Kate Gawlik & Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, The Ohio State University, 2022

…and I got fed up!

Additude Magazine shared a few studies and quizzes, which I’ll link to below - if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

Parental burnout sounds a lot like trauma to me: Not enough resources and too much stress for too long overwhelms our …