By Nelly Carusillo, MS, LMHC · Created by EG Behavioral Health
BreakUp with Burnout
Proven Strategies to Prevent & Combat Corporate Burnout
Get it on AmazonAre you running on empty? Do Sunday nights fill you with dread? Is your body keeping score of every stressful meeting, impossible deadline, and thankless task?
BreakUp with Burnout is a personal workbook designed for corporate professionals who are ready to take control of their stress — not just survive it. Built on evidence-based tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, nervous-system science, and mindfulness research, it's a hands-on guide you write in, reflect on, and return to — chapter by chapter, at your own pace.
What's Inside
Eight structured chapters take you from smoldering to burnout-resistant, one tool at a time.
- 1 Burnout Assessment & Building Your Foundation Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) · building a burnout-resistant life · breathing for nervous-system regulation
- 2 Understanding Your Stress Response The sympathetic nervous system · 5-4-3-2-1 grounding
- 3 The Burnout Igniters Assessing stress-igniting thoughts · interoception · progressive muscle relaxation
- 4 Self-Care & Revitalization Self-care and revitalization self-assessment · the Yerkes-Dodson curve
- 5 Identifying Your Cognitive Distortions The Professional's Distortion Decoder · personal distortion tracker · top-down tools
- 6 Navigating High-Pressure Moments Top-down vs. bottom-up strategies · corporate stressors & responses worksheet
- 7 Your Point-of-Impact Strategy The decision tree · my stress spike & regulation plan
- 8 Graduation & Maintenance Resources and referrals for continued support
Who It's For
Whether you're smoldering, fully burned out, or determined to prevent it, this workbook gives you the science-backed tools to reclaim your energy, protect your well-being, and build a burnout-resistant career.
Want support beyond the workbook?
Work one-on-one with Nelly on burnout recovery. Insurance accepted through these platforms · $150 private pay.