Burnout & Your Battery

Caregiver burnout is not only for people caring for aging parents. If you carry the kids, the schedules and everyone’s moods, you are a...

Mental health support for moms feels out of reach: 71 percent of Canadian mothers delayed it, and time was the biggest reason. Here is...

Burnout hypervigilance makes good days feel like a trap. Here is why you brace for the crash and how to let a good day...

You say, “Shoes, please.” Your kid freezes, glares or sprints in the opposite direction. You say it again, softer. Nothing. By the third time...

If this year has felt heavier than last year, I need you to hear this before anything else. It is not you falling apart....

Nobody hands you a form to sign when you quietly start doing less at work. There is no meeting. No official moment where you...

I downloaded a self care app once. I filled in my mood for three days straight, got a cheerful notification reminding me to breathe,...

There is a word you say more than any other word today, and it is not a swear word, even though some days it...

You lit the candle, ran the bath, put your phone in the other room like the article told you to, and did your twenty...

New parental burnout research found something unexpected: exhaustion and closeness with your kids do not cancel each other out, and both can grow together....

You took the weekend. You slept in. You had a bath, maybe a whole afternoon to yourself. And you came back to Monday feeling...

You have tried the early night. You have tried the day off. You have tried the solo coffee run where you sat in the...

Someone finally graded it. A national report card looked at how well mothers in this country are actually supported, and the grade came back...