What is burnout? How does emotional burnout impact our everyday lives and relationships? Why is burnout negatively impacting our democracy?

Join your host, Samantha Castro, as she discusses the emotional, mental, and political effects of burnout. Learn how to remedy burnout by adopting self-care techniques such as kindness and patience and how Doing the Do-able can help us make political engagement an everyday effort.

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Sources:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/burnout-and-the-brain

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/health/burnout-changing-brain-wellness/index.html

https://montrosedemocrats.org/beat-burnout

https://www.campaignnow.com/blog/epidemic-of-american-political-burnout

https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/how-to-get-involved-in-politics/

https://medium.com/practicing-politics/how-to-avoid-political-burnout-84c764397031

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