4 Ways to Break the Burnout Cycle (That Go Beyond Self-Care)
Psychology Today | 23.11.2025 23:34Burnout is an occupational hazard that thrives in high-pressure workplaces. And despite what endless wellness trends suggest, burnout isn’t solved with spa days, gratitude lists, or even better time management. Burnout isn’t the result of unmotivated or incapable people; it emerges when job demands consistently outweigh the resources available to meet them, a dynamic extensively documented in Job Demands–Resources Theory (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007).
