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This episode explores high-functioning burnout and its impact on high achievers.

Send us Fan Mail Burnout doesn’t always look like falling apart. Sometimes it looks like continuing to perform, produce, and show up while feeling emotionally and mentally exhausted on the inside. In this episode of In Session, we explore high-functioning burnout, the kind of burnout that hides behind competence, responsibility, and achievement. We discuss how chronic stress can quietly build beneath the surface, why so many high achievers struggle to recognize burnout in themselves, and the ...

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Hosts: Gabrielle Williams, Charice Calloway

Topics covered

• burnout
• mental health
• high-functioning burnout
• chronic stress
• emotional exhaustion

Keywords

• burnout
• high-functioning
• mental exhaustion
• chronic stress
• emotional health

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