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How to Sleep Better When You're Burnt Out: A Tiered Approach
Struggling to sleep even after trying the basics? Here's a tiered approach to better sleep, from ruling out medical causes, to sleep hygiene, to calming a racing mind and a wired body when anxiety or burnout is keeping you up at night.
jennamcgonegal
Jul 307 min read


Why Can't I Sleep When I'm Exhausted? The Burnout-Sleep Connection, Explained
Exhausted but still can't sleep? Here's the real connection between sleep and burnout, what's happening in your brain and nervous system, and why rest doesn't always come easily even when your body desperately needs it.
jennamcgonegal
Jul 57 min read


Why Do I Feel Anxious When I Slow Down?
You finally sit down to relax… and instead of feeling calm, your thoughts start racing and your body feels on edge. If rest feels uncomfortable—or even anxiety-provoking—you’re not doing it wrong. Here’s why this happens, and how to help your nervous system experience it as safe again.
jennamcgonegal
Mar 274 min read


Why Am I So Tired All the Time? Burnout, Anxiety, and the Nervous System
Feeling exhausted even when you’re sleeping enough doesn’t mean you’re lazy. For many high-achieving adults, being “the strong one” comes at a cost: your nervous system can get stuck in overdrive, leaving you anxious, drained, or disconnected from yourself. In this post, I explain why burnout isn’t just about doing too much, how your body’s stress response contributes to chronic exhaustion, and what it actually feels like to recover.
jennamcgonegal
Mar 17 min read


Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Benefits: What Clients Often Notice
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) often leads to changes that surprise clients — not just in how they feel, but in how they move through daily life. From better sleep to fewer triggers and more self-compassion, this post explores the subtle shifts people commonly notice after ART.
jennamcgonegal
Jan 294 min read


5 Personal Boundaries to Prevent Burnout
A lack of healthy boundaries is a super common contributing factor to burnout. It makes perfect sense. If you continually take on too much, try to rescue others from their problems, or struggle to say “no”, you can easily wind up feeling completely overwhelmed and chronically stressed. Although we often think of boundaries in our relationship to others, an often neglected but just as important form of boundaries is those we set with ourselves. If you really struggle to assert
jennamcgonegal
Mar 6, 20246 min read


5 Tips to Manage Dating Anxiety
Do you find that your anxiety is much more manageable when you’re single? That everything’s smooth sailing until you dip your toes into the world of dating and you’re suddenly thrown completely off balance? If so, you’re not alone. While relationships can bring you to your highest highs, they can also take you to your lowest lows. We know that relationships, particularly romantic ones, can bring a lot of unresolved issues to the surface. They can rub a bunch of salt in old w
jennamcgonegal
Feb 11, 20249 min read
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