ARTICLE
The Burnout We Can’t Talk About: Parent Burnout
By Robyn Koslowitz Ph.D. — 2019
New research demonstrates parental burnout has serious consequences. As defined by the study, burnout is an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed, physical and emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of being an ineffective parent.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Grit (84)
- Talk Therapy (77)
- Burnout (69)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (51)
- Work Challenges (51)
- Anxiety (42)
- Family Dynamics (40)
- Life Challenges (39)
- BIPOC Well-Being (37)
- Honoring Emotion (37)
- Depression (33)
- Resilience (32)
- Stress Management (31)
- Children’s Well-Being (29)
- Women’s Well-Being (29)
- Stress (26)
- Work-Life Balance (26)
- Black Well-Being (25)
- Neuroscience (25)
- Child’s Challenging Behavior (24)
- Communication Skills (24)
- Self-Development (24)
- Adjusting to Parenthood (23)
- Cancer (22)
- Mindfulness (22)
- Self-Discovery (22)
- Athlete Well-Being (21)
- Relationship Challenges (21)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (21)
- Caregiver Well-Being (20)
- Identity (20)
- Self-Healing (19)
- Well-Being (19)
- Creative Well-Being (18)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (18)
- Fear (18)
- Self-Esteem (18)
- Trauma Healing (18)
- Activism/Service (17)
- Goal Setting (17)
- Habit Formation (16)
- Self-Reflection Practices (15)
- Young Adult Well-Being (15)
- Authenticity (14)
- Courage (14)
- Mind-Body Connection (14)
- Self-Compassion (14)
- Shame (14)
- Child’s Trauma (13)
- Loneliness (13)
- Self-Acceptance (13)
- Brain Health (12)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (12)
- Compassion (12)
- Confidence (12)
- Cross-Cultural Parenting (12)
- Disabled Well-Being (12)
- Entrepreneurship (12)
- Grief (12)
- Guilt (12)
- Happiness (12)
- Motivation (12)
- Racism (12)
- Search for Purpose (12)
- Work Relationships (12)
- Awareness (11)
- Community Healing (11)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (11)
- Empowerment (11)
- Fellowship and Community (11)
- Identity Shifts (11)
- Mental Health Challenges (11)
- Neurodiversity (11)
- Physical Health (11)
- Positive Thinking (11)
- Self-Love (11)
- Self-Pressure (11)
- Self-Worth (11)
- Spiritual Growth (11)
- Anger (10)
- Challenges with Teens (10)
- Child Depression (10)
- Handling a Child’s Illness (10)
- Imagination and Creativity (10)
- Inner Peace (10)
- Memoir (10)
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (10)
- Presence (10)
- Productivity (10)
- PTSD (10)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (10)
- Self-Realization (10)
- Addiction (9)
- Autism (9)
- Child Defiance (9)
- Child’s Anxiety (9)
- Child’s Autism (9)
- Divorce and Breakup (9)
- Fatherhood (9)
- Finding Meaning (9)
- Growth Mindset (9)
- Joy (9)
- Marriage (9)
- Meditation (9)
- Mindfulness Practices (9)
- Negative Self-Talk (9)
- Peak Performance (9)
- Postpartum Depression (9)
- Raising Daughters (9)
- Rest (9)
- Romantic Relationships (9)
- Self-Mastery (9)
- Suicide (9)
- Transformation (9)
- Veteran Well-Being (9)
- Vulnerability (9)
- ADD/ADHD (8)
- Addiction Recovery (8)
- Adoption (8)
- Anger Management (8)
- Asking for Help (8)
- Attachment Theory (8)
- Compassion Fatigue (8)
- Criticism and Rejection (8)
- Habits of Mind (8)
- Human Potential (8)
- Journaling (8)
- Leadership (8)
- LGBTQIA Parents (8)
- Problem Solving (8)
- Self-Reliance (8)
- Breathwork (7)
- Chronic Anxiety (7)
- Connection (7)
- Connection with Nature (7)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (7)
- Failure (7)
- Focus (7)
- Gratitude (7)
- Kindness (7)
- Play (7)
- Psychology (7)
- Raising Sons (7)
- Social Justice (7)
- Time Management (7)
- Adaptability (6)
- Belonging (6)
- Blended Families (6)
- Buddhism (6)
- Child’s Social Media Addiction (6)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (6)
- Conflict Resolution (6)
- Consciousness (6)
- Digital Life (6)
- Empathy (6)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (6)
- Neuroplasticity (6)
- Optimism (6)
- Self-Actualization (6)
- Self-Reckoning (6)
- Spiritual Awakening (6)
- Transitions (6)
- Trauma (6)
- Acceptance (5)
- Body Image (5)
- Building Character (5)
- Co-Parenting (5)
- Eating Disorders (5)
- Emotional Labor (5)
- Exercise (5)
- Female Empowerment (5)
- Inner Strengths (5)
- Kids and Sports (5)
- Latinx Well-Being (5)
- Love (5)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (5)
- Offering Support to Others (5)
- Performance Anxiety (5)
- Positive Psychology (5)
- Race and Gender (5)
- Racial Identity (5)
- Raising Nonbinary Children (5)
- Relationship with Time (5)
- Self-Control (5)
- Sex (5)
- Social Anxiety (5)
- Speaking Your Truth (5)
- Toxic Relationships (5)
- Values (5)
- Work Ethic (5)
- Youth Activism (5)
- Academic Struggles (4)
- Bullying (4)
- Curiosity (4)
- Decision Making (4)
- Diet and Nutrition (4)
- Family Acceptance (4)
- Healthy Eating (4)
- Highly Sensitive People (4)
- Hope (4)
- Indigenous Well-Being (4)
- Intergenerational Trauma (4)
- LGBTQIA Children (4)
- Living as an Empath (4)
- Managing Energy (4)
- Neuropsychology (4)
- Positive Self-Talk (4)
- Psychology and Spirituality (4)
- Racial Healing (4)
- Relationship with Money (4)
- Sleep (4)
- Social Responsibility (4)
- Suffering (4)
- Transgender Well-Being (4)
- Visualization (4)
- Women’s Rights (4)
- Yoga (4)
- Abandonment (3)
- Acupressure (3)
- Aging (3)
- Ayurveda (3)
- Chronic Pain (3)
- Clinical Depression (3)
- Disconnection (3)
- Doubt (3)
- Endurance (3)
- Environmental Justice (3)
- Female Friendship (3)
- Feminism (3)
- Forest Bathing (3)
- Forgiveness (3)
- Friendship (3)
- Gender Challenges (3)
- Gender Identity (3)
- Generosity (3)
- Global Challenges (3)
- Guided Meditation (3)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (3)
- Healing Approaches (3)
- Holism (3)
- Household Labor (3)
- Hypnosis (3)
- Immigration and Assimilation (3)
- Inner Child (3)
- Integrative Medicine (3)
- Intention (3)
- Intimacy (3)
- Letting Go (3)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (3)
- Men’s Well-Being (3)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (3)
- Mindfulness Meditation (3)
- Nonbinary Well-Being (3)
- Passion (3)
- Perception (3)
- Performance Pressure (3)
- Quitting Your Job (3)
- Regret (3)
- Self-Expression (3)
- Sexuality (3)
- Situational Depression (3)
- Social Psychology (3)
- Spiritual Development (3)
- Spiritual Practices (3)
- Spirituality and Health (3)
- Tibetan Buddhism (3)
- Accepting Love (2)
- Alcohol Addiction (2)
- Autoimmune Disease (2)
- Biofeedback (2)
- Body Positivity (2)
- Building Culture (2)
- Child’s Alcohol Addiction (2)
- Chronic Health Conditions (2)
- Climate Change (2)
- Codependency (2)
- Cognition (2)
- Cognitive Psychology (2)
- Collaboration (2)
- Coming Out (2)
- Competition (2)
- Death or Loss of a Child (2)
- Death or Loss of a Parent (2)
- Deciding to Have Children (2)
- Discrimination (2)
- Embodiment (2)
- Enlightenment (2)
- Enneagram (2)
- Facing Own Death (2)
- Faith (2)
- Financial Instability (2)
- Gender Discrimination (2)
- Generational Healing (2)
- Genetics (2)
- Inner Life (2)
- Inspiration (2)
- Jealousy/Envy (2)
- Living with Illness (2)
- Love Languages (2)
- Lovingkindness (2)
- Narcissism (2)
- OCD (2)
- Othering (2)
- Panic Attacks (2)
- Personality Disorders (2)
- Post-Traumatic Growth (2)
- Prayer (2)
- Racial Discrimination (2)
- Science and Spirituality (2)
- Self-Employment (2)
- Self-Harm (2)
- Shadow (2)
- Social Media Addiction (2)
- Spiritual Life (2)
- Trust (2)
- Vitamin Supplementation (2)
- A Course in Miracles (1)
- AAPI Well-Being (1)
- Access to Education (1)
- Affirmations (1)
- Altered States (1)
- Anat Baniel Method (1)
- Anorexia (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Awe (1)
- Betrayal (1)
- Bodywork (1)
- Cannabis/CBD (1)
- Choosing Childfree (1)
- Christian Mysticism (1)
- Chronic Fatigue (1)
- Collective Trauma (1)
- Comparing Belief Traditions (1)
- Compulsive Lying (1)
- Conscience (1)
- Conscious Evolution (1)
- Dark Night of the Soul (1)
- Death and Dying (1)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (1)
- Death-Positive Movement (1)
- Despair (1)
- Domestic Abuse (1)
- Drug Addiction (1)
- Ecospirituality (1)
- Ego (1)
- Energy Healing (1)
- Family Therapy (1)
- Fatigue (1)
- Fiction (1)
- Foster Parenting (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Gender Justice (1)
- Goddess (1)
- Heartmath (1)
- Herbal Supplementation (1)
- Hero’s Journey (1)
- Higher Calling (1)
- Homophobia (1)
- Humility (1)
- Illness and Injury (1)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (1)
- Interdependence (1)
- Intuition (1)
- Islam (1)
- Jungian Analysis (1)
- LGBTQIA Relationships (1)
- Life-Altering Injury (1)
- Loss of an Animal Companion (1)
- Magic (1)
- Manifestation (1)
- Memory (1)
- Mentoring (1)
- Native American Beliefs (1)
- Naturopathy (1)
- New Relationships (1)
- Nightmares (1)
- Non-Duality (1)
- Nutritional Medicine (1)
- Obsessions/Compulsions (1)
- Oneness (1)
- Patience (1)
- Physical Therapy (1)
- Poverty/Economic Inequality (1)
- Psychoanalysis (1)
- Racial Justice (1)
- Reproductive Health (1)
- Retirement (1)
- Ritual (1)
- Sexual Assault or Abuse (1)
- Sexual Health (1)
- Somatic Experiencing (1)
- Somatic Practices (1)
- Soul Mission (1)
- Spiritual Healing (1)
- Spiritual Quest (1)
- Stoicism (1)
- Storytelling (1)
- Synchronicity (1)
- Taoism (1)
- Teacher Burnout (1)
- The Unconscious (1)
- Transpersonal Psychology (1)
- Unconscious Bias (1)
- Unfulfilled Career (1)
- Western Astrology (1)
- Whiteness (1)
- Wholeness (1)
- Willpower (1)
- Witch (1)
- Witchcraft (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Edward Hallowell (6)
- Gabor Maté (6)
- Mark Victor Hansen (6)
- Richard Davidson (6)
- Harriet Lerner (5)
- John Bradshaw (5)
- Lisa Feldman Barrett (5)
- Andrew Solomon (4)
- Becky Kennedy (4)
- C. S. Lewis (4)
- Gordon Neufeld (4)
- Rick Hanson (4)
- Terri Cole (4)
- Bernie S. Siegel (3)
- Brené Brown (3)
- Brian Tracy (3)
- Daniel Goleman (3)
- Marci Shimoff (3)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (3)
- Maya Angelou (3)
- Oprah Winfrey (3)
- The Dalai Lama (3)
- Alison Gopnik (2)
- Arianna Huffington (2)
- Audre Lorde (2)
- Blaise Aguirre (2)
- Bruce Lipton (2)
- Craig Hamilton (2)
- Daniel Amen (2)
- Danya Ruttenberg (2)
- David Whyte (2)
- Dorothy Firman (2)
- Elaine Aron (2)
- Elizabeth Lesser (2)
- Ericka Sóuter (2)
- Gary Chapman (2)
- Jacqueline Carter (2)
- Jay Shetty (2)
- Joan Borysenko (2)
- John Gottman (2)
- John Sarno (2)
- Judith Orloff (2)
- Karla McLaren (2)
- Ken Wilber (2)
- Lewis Howes (2)
- Lodro Rinzler (2)
- Panache Desai (2)
- Pema Chödrön (2)
- Peter A. Levine (2)
- Ruby Wax (2)
- Sadhguru (2)
- Temple Grandin (2)
- Acharya Shunya (1)
- Adrienne Rich (1)
- Alain de Botton (1)
- Alison Green (1)
- Allison Briscoe-Smith (1)
- Amishi Jha (1)
- Anat Baniel (1)
- Andrew Weil (1)
- Andy Puddicombe (1)
- Angela Duckworth (1)
- Anna Sale (1)
- Anne Lamott (1)
- Aviva Romm (1)
- Bessel van der Kolk (1)
- Biet Simkin (1)
- Cal Newport (1)
- Carl Jung (1)
- Chip Conley (1)
- Colleen Saidman Yee (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- David Spiegel (1)
- Diane Stein (1)
- don Jose Ruiz (1)
- Eckhart Tolle (1)
- Forrest Hanson (1)
- Gary Zukav (1)
- Gay Hendricks (1)
- Glennon Doyle (1)
- Guru Jagat (1)
- Harville Hendrix (1)
- Helen LaKelly Hunt (1)
- Hyla Cass (1)
- Iskra Lawrence (1)
- James Doty (1)
- Jan Willis (1)
- Jana Long (1)
- Jazmine McCoy (1)
- Jerry M. Ruhl (1)
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (1)
- Jonathan Van Ness (1)
- Joseph Chilton Pearce (1)
- Joseph Goldstein (1)
- Judith Blackstone (1)
- Julia Cameron (1)
- Julie Schwartz Gottman (1)
- Karen May (1)
- Kate Johnson (1)
- Kenneth Pelletier (1)
- Kenneth Robinson (1)
- Kim Eng (1)
- Kristin Neff (1)
- Lama Rod Owens (1)
- Latham Thomas (1)
- Leah Guy (1)
- Linda Graham (1)
- Lindo Bacon (1)
- Lise Van Susteren (1)
- Lori Gottlieb (1)
- Marianne Williamson (1)
- Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin (1)
- Mark Hyman (1)
- Mark Nepo (1)
- Martin Seligman (1)
- Michael Bernard Beckwith (1)
- Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (1)
- Mitch Albom (1)
- Nicole LePera (1)
- Nikki Mirghafori (1)
- Noah Elkrief (1)
- Norman Fischer (1)
- Paramahansa Yogananda (1)
- Philip Goldberg (1)
- Phillip Moffitt (1)
- Piero Ferrucci (1)
- Poppy Jamie (1)
- Ralph De La Rosa (1)
- Resmaa Menakem (1)
- Rich Fernandez (1)
- Rich Roll (1)
- Robert Firestone (1)
- Rodney Yee (1)
- Rudolph Ballentine (1)
- Rumi (1)
- Sam Harris (1)
- SARK (1)
- Shakti Gawain (1)
- Sharon Salzberg (1)
- Shauna Shapiro (1)
- Simon Sinek (1)
- Sonia Sanchez (1)
- Stephanie Y. Evans (1)
- Steven Kotler (1)
- Tony Gaskins Jr. (1)
- Tony Robbins (1)
- Virginia Satir (1)
- Wayne Dyer (1)
- William Bloom (1)
- Zainab Salbi (1)