Science and Solutions for Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout

The pandemic sputtered to an official end in May 2023. But the number of daily challenges, the velocity of change, levels of uncertainty, and amounts of toxicity haven’t decreased. In fact, in the midst of a post-pandemic economic boom, we’re experiencing a new rolling wave of severe burnout.

And yet, neuroscience is exploding with new discoveries and insights that can help. Research is filling in the blanks and adding new knowledge in consciousness, neural operations, and all the ways the modern brain creates and habituates stress.

A Pervasive Threat Stress has become our constant companion and a pervasive threat to our health, well-being, and personal performance. We each have our own stressors - and we’re all impacted to some degree by 21st-century suffering: information overload, decision fatigue, attention deficit, digital distraction, constant change - and the rise in conflict, toxicity, exhaustion, and burnout.

Of course, stress is incredibly uncomfortable and unpleasant…