Parenting Burnout: Reduce Overwhelm, Regulate Your Nervous System & Rebuild Parental Capacity — Without Doing More or Feeling Guilty by Ellis Mitchell
You love your kids. But you’re also fantasising about running away, hiding in the bathroom, or booking a hotel room just to be alone. That’s not failure. That’s parenting burnout. Parenting Burnout is a practical, no-nonsense guide to stabilising your nervous system, stopping the burnout spiral, and rebuilding a version of parenting that doesn’t erase you in the process. This is not a “just be grateful” book. It’s a triage-and-rebuild manual. You’ll learn how to: Identify your current burnout stage Create an emergency survival plan for when everything feels too much Use rapid, somatic nervous-system resets you can do with children present Set realistic “bare minimum” standards that keep everyone safe without perfection Read more