Filled with advice designed to help people overcome this very real problem, the author--founding director of Skyros Holistic Holidays--shows readers how to transform this potentially damaging psychological condition into a positive experience for the individual and their friends, family members, and co-workers. Original.

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'The Joy of Burnout is the book we have all been waiting for. Dr Glouberman takes this debilitating and puzzling phenomenon and offers powerful and practical insights to help us understand and transcend it. This extraordinary book is a must for sufferers of burnout and their families, friends, managers, counsellors and anyone who has been touched by this experience. It's also a great read.' (Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the S )

'Dina Glouberman has written a book an entire generation can benefit from. This is such an important book. It unwraps the gifts of burnout for the first time. It is so full of treasures: it will resuscitate your mind, heal your heart, give you back your life. The challenge will be finding someone who cannot relate to it!' (Robert Holden, author of Shift Happens! )

'The great advances in life often take place through suffering. Nowehere is this truer than in burnout, which is epidemic in the western world. The Joy of Burnout will help anyone find meaning in this experience and enable them to emerge happier and more fulfilled than before.' (Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Words and Rein )

'A beautiful and inspiring book' (Nursing Times )

'Dina Glouberman is a home-maker of the spirit. She writes with an unusual and vivid openness and with a gift for striking images... This book is full of useful and illuminating suggestions.' (Margaret Drabble, novelist, editor and critic )

'Imagework pioneer, Dina Glouberman, has written about burnout with gifted powerful prose that crackles with intelligence, honesty, insight and clarity. This is a woman whose compassionate level gaze gets the big picture, while never losing sight of the subtle, paradoxical, aggravating details that make up a real life. Her approach to healing reflects both heartfelt genuineness and sophisticated wisdom. An absolute joy to read!' (Belleruth Naparstek, author of Your Sixth Sense an )

'When Dina Glouberman was a student, her class were asked to invent their own obituaries. Dina predicted for herself a fatal car crash in October 1989, when she would be forty four. Extraordinary, she did crash in that month - not in a car but in herself, her soul. She suffered burnout, a condition which she compares with the mystics' "dark night of the Soul". In this thoughtful, intense and caring book, she teaches us how "the burn-out is the recovery", leading us to a more whole and joyful life. One of the book's many virtues is personal testimony; most movingly, by Sue Townsend, of Adrian Mole fame, charting her own burnout experiences with a searing honesty.' (D.M. Thomas, author of The White Hotel and Lady wi )

'In this inspiring, lovely book, Dina Glouberman collects the stresses of modern life and the collapse of hope into one word: Burnout. Describing many life quests, including her own, she brings a poet's voice and sensibility to the task of helping people discover radical healing, joy and their "soul community".' (Lynn Hoffman, author of Foundations of Family Ther )

'I felt stronger and more confident after reading Dina Glouberman's warm, intelligent and exciting book, and the intimate glimpses into other people's struggles made me feel less alone.' (Nell Dunn, author of Steaming, Up the Junction and )

'This book deals with what has fast become a vital issue for both individuals and organisations: how do we reconcile the inner voice of our soul and our search for meaning in our lives, with our life and work? Our future health and happiness depend on our answers, and the personal experiences and perceptive reflections of Dr Glouberman could help us all. This should be required reading for everyone in organisations before it is too late!' (Dr Bruce Lloyd, Professor of Strategic Management, )

'Come on! Admit it! You know what it is like to have a sense of being worn out, exhausted, spent, numb, dead, cut off, disconnected - burnout - either a little bit or big time. This rich volume is not another chant of "Think this way, you'll feel better." This rich volume is a way to use that sense of being burnt out as a launching pad, a doorway into a new sense of joy, vibrancy, aliveness, passion, excitement. Are you ready to begin? (Alvin R. Mahrer, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Universi )

'Dina Glouberman's experience of burnout was a transforming life event. Here she offers a wise, inspirational guide to understanding and embracing burnout as a way of making place for the soul and moving on to a more personally constructive and spiritually rewarding life.' (Angela Neustatter, author and journalist )

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