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The World Health Organization recognizes job burnout, but there is also caregiver burnout, emotional burnout, and parental burnout, all of which lead to #nervousexhaustion. While self-care can help you manage your stress, it does not address the structural inequalities that contribute to burnout. To avoid burnout, we must employ behavior change science to effect individual, organizational, and cultural change.

Dr. Jacqueline Kerr is a mom, behavior scientist, and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most-cited scientists worldwide. Dr. Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of working mom burnout and find solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout.

Show Highlights:

• How burnout usually starts - a mixed feeling of inadequacy, struggling with parenthood, mid-life crisis, and breakdown. Burnout starts when we are taking way too much than we can handle.
• The mission of helping moms overcome burnout. As a burnout survivor who understood how things can go spiraling down, it has become Dr. Jacqueline’s goal to help other working moms acknowledge burnout before it even starts.
• The trigger to find more despite being happy with our current achievements. Understanding the feeling of never enough is essential in understanding why it can become a source of burnout.
• Looking after our mental health - overwork sometimes causes us to ignore the fact that we need to take care of our mental health. Understand how physical activities help boost our mental health.
• “Am I in danger now?” - learn when to acknowledge you are on a brink of burnout to prevent it and understand the importance of saying “no”.
• Unlearning the behaviors and negative self-talk. Acknowledging that none of these is a walk in the park and why it is a salient part of the process of recognizing burnout before it even starts.

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Connect with Dr. Jacqueline via the following:
Website: www.drjacquelinekerr.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jacqueline-kerr-a62581173
Please watch Dr. Jacqueline’s TEDx talk https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ

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